Night Operations Flashcards
Nighttime per 14 CFR 1.1 is defined as?
Time between evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight, as published in the Air Almanac, converted to local time.
Night landings may only be logged when?
1 hour after sunset until 1 hour before sunrise.
Nighttime currency to carry passengers requires what?
3 takeoffs and 3 landings to full stop at night in the same category, class, and type (if type rating is required)
The human eye takes how many mins to adjust to total darkness?
30 mins
Before a night flight, avoid what as it will affect the body’s night vision?
White light
To minimize taxi speed at night, pilots should utilize?
The side window for a better understanding of how fast or slow they may be taxiing
Taxiway lighting is what color?
Blue
Runway edge lights are painted white. If the runway is an instrument runway, the edge lights will be white until?
Until the final 2,000ft of runway or half the length, whichever is less. Then they will turn yellow.
Lights in the cockpit should be increased to their full intensity if?
In the vicinity of a thunderstorm
At a non-towered airport with pilot controlled lighting pilots activity the lights to high intensity by?
Clicking the microphone 7 times in 5 seconds
To reduce pilot controles lighting intensity, the pilot?
Clicks the microphone 5 times in 5 seconds for medium and 3 times in 5 seconds for low
Pilot controles lighting will remain on for 15 mins and should be turned on no more than ______ miles on approach.
20 miles
False horizon is?
Where a line of distant lights appear to make the horizon.
Autokinesis is?
When a stationary light appears to move if it is stared at for a prolonged period of time.
Visible moisture, and if the wind is calm thick fog can form at night when?
The temperature of the air is cooled to its dew point
