Lees data entry 1 Flashcards
Two adjacent WAC charts can never be joined exactly north / south because …
The charts have different standard parallels
If B is due east of A in the southern hemisphere …
A flight which followed the rhumb line track from A to B would diverge to the left of the straight line drawn on the WAC chart
Two adjacent WAC charts can always be joined exactly east / west because …
They are projections from the same cone
An aircraft which tracks along the 030 omni radial from a station …
Follows a great circle path
Direction on a WAC chart should be measured by the reference to the mid meridian because …
The chart is a conic projection
Two towns are on the same meridian. One is on the 23°S latititude, while the other is on the 25°S latitude. The distance between these two towns is …
120 nm
An aircraft is cruising at FL 150 at a TAS of 165 kt. If the outside air temperature is -20℃, what airspeed would be indicated on the face of the air speed indicator …
133 kt
