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Question 0

What is 1 degree of latitude in nautical miles?

Answer 0

60nm

Question 1

What is 1 minute of latitude in nautical mile?

Answer 1

1 nautical mile

Question 2

What is 1 nautical mile in kilometres?

Answer 2

1.852km

Question 3

What is the fuel we expect to consume in flight?

Answer 3

Flight fuel

Question 4

What is fixed reserve?

Answer 4

Fixed number of gallons or litres to be added to flight fuel

Question 5

What is variable reserve?

Answer 5

Operators require flight fuel to be increase by Fixed percentage (usually 15%)

Question 6

What is ‘minimum fuel’?

Answer 6

Minimum fuel can be found by multiplying flight fuel by 1.15 and adding fixed reserve and taxi fuel

Question 7

What is the arc time relationship for: 360 degrees, 15 degrees, 1 degree, 15’, 1’?

Answer 7

360 degrees = 24 hours
15 degrees = 1hour
1 degrees = 4minutes
15minutes = 1minute
1minute = 4 seconds

Question 8

What is EST to UTC.?

Answer 8

-10
UTC to est is +10
Tas,vic,nsw,qld

Question 9

What is CST to UTC?

Answer 9

-9.5hrs
UTC to CST +9.5
Sa,nt

Question 10

What is WST to UTC?

Answer 10

-8hours
UTC to WST +8
Wa

Question 11

When is beginning of daylight?

Answer 11

When centre of sun reaches a position of 6degrees below the celestial horizon

Question 12

When is end of daylight?

Answer 12

When sun reaches 6 degrees below celestial horizon

Question 13

What is ‘track’?

Answer 13

Actual path of aircraft across ground or map

Question 14

What is a ‘heading?’

Answer 14

Direction aircraft points along particular track

Question 15

Headings and tracks are expressed in what? Magnetic or true?

Answer 15

Magnetic

Question 16

What is drift?

Answer 16

Angular difference between heading held and the track

Question 17

What factors affect drift?

Answer 17

Strength of wind
Wind direction
TAS of the aircraft

Question 18

How do you find QNH at aerodrome with known elevation?

Answer 18

Set elevation on altimeter and check subscale

Question 19

When should you use the QNH?

Answer 19

Within 100nm of station

Question 20

What do you use if there is no QNH within 100nm?

Answer 20

Area QNH

Question 21

Levels measured from local QNH are known as what?

Answer 21

Altitudes

Question 22

Levels measured from 1013 datum are known as what?

Answer 22

Flight levels

Question 23

What is the highest possible altitude and lowest flight level?

Answer 23

A100

FL110

Question 24

How do you calculate how long it will take you to travel a distance in nm?

Answer 24

(Distance(nm) divided by Ground speed) x 60 =minutes

Question 25

How do you calculate rate of climb?

Answer 25

Climb height divided by how long it will take = feet/min

Question 26

What is the agonic line?

Answer 26

Line with nil magnetic variation

Question 27

What is the isogonal lines?

Answer 27

Lines with magnetic variation

Question 28

What errors are on the ADF-NDB system?

Answer 28

Co channel interference
Coastal refraction
Thunderstorm effect
Mountain effect
Night effect
Quadrant error

Question 29

Which errors affect VOR?

Answer 29

Vertical polarisation
Terraign error
Aggregate error
Ground station error
Site error

Question 30

What frequency does NDB use?

Answer 30

Medium frequency

Question 31

An aircraft climbs from sea level at constant IAS in standard atmosphere, what happens to TAS and OAT as aircraft climbs?

Answer 31

TAS increases and OAT decreases

Question 32

Area QNH has limits of plus or minus what?

Answer 32

5hPa

Question 33

What is the formula for distance to descend?

Answer 33

Time to descent divided by 60 times by ground speed =nm

Question 34

What is track error?

Answer 34

(60 / distance travelled) x distance off track

Question 35

What is calculated angle?

Answer 35

(60 / distance to go) x distance off track