Pass Your Private Pilot Checkride

Question 1

To remain current carrying passengers a pilot must..

Answer 1

preceding 90 days completed 3 take off and landings as the sole pilot in the same aircraft category and class. same rules for night flying (1 hour after sunset, and 1 hour before sunrise) 61.56 and 61.57

Question 2

Do aircraft registration expire?

Answer 2

Yes, every 3 years the owner must re-register the aircraft.

Question 3

What documents are needed to act as PIC

Answer 3

1. Photo ID
2. Pilot Certificate
3. Medical (sport pilots are exempt from this)

Question 4

What is the difference between a 100 hour inspection and an annual inspection?

Answer 4

aircraft operated for hire are required to receive 100 hour inspections. AMP can sign off on a 100 hour inspection. An AMP with an inspection authorization is required to sign off an annual inspection.

Question 5

Can an 100 hour take the place of an annual inspection?

Answer 5

No. However an annual can take the place of a 100 hour. 91.409

Question 6

What is an MEL?

Answer 6

Minimum Equipment List?

Question 7

What is a special flight permit?

Answer 7

Gives temporary airworthiness to an aircraft that doesn’t have current airworthiness status. 91.213

Question 8

Explain the 3 types of medicals

Answer 8

1st class medical, pilots that are ATPs are required to have this medical. need 20/20 need to distinguish red, green, white. normal hearing. valid of reminder of month plus 6 calendar months if over 40 years old. or 12 months if under 40 on or before date of exam.
2nd class medical pilots that are commercial licensed need this. valid for 12 months. must have 20/20, red, green, white, normal field of vision and hearing.
3rd class medical, every pilot holding ppl or better needs this. most general, good for 60 calendar months for individuals under the age of 40 at the time of exam. 24 calendar months over the age of 40. distance of 20/40 with or without glasses, red, green, white, normal field of vision and hearing.

Question 9

What is hypoxia

Answer 9

a lack of oxygen to the brain

Question 10

what are 4 types of hypoxia

Answer 10

1. hypoxic-hypoxia, most common and caused by decreased oxygen across the lungs. (ie being over 12,500 feet)
2. hypemic-hypoxia, caused by reduction of oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. There is enough oxygen, just not enough good blood to carry the oxygen. Carbon monoxide poisoning can cause this.
3. stagnate-hypoxia, caused by reduced cardiac output, high g forces..
4. Histotoxic-hypoxia, cells can’t take the oxygen from the blood. Alcohol can cause this type.

Question 11

what are symptoms of hypoxia?

Answer 11

Headache, dizzy, blueing of extremities, euphoria,

Question 12

explain hyperventalation

Answer 12

also over breathing, inhaling too much carbon monoxide, caused by panic. solved by breathing into a bag, or pulling it together.

Question 13

What are the 8 types of spatial disorientation
Little Camels Give Gyros So I Eat Flautos

Answer 13

A state of confusion where the pilot loses reference to the horizon.
1. The leans, when a quick correction happens to slowly, inner hear sensors send brain the sensation of banking in the opposite direction, compensate by going too far the other way.
2. Coriolis illusion, caused by making a quick head movement by making a constant rate turn. (dropping a pen on the floor and reaching down to get it while turning)
3. Graveyard spin, after correcting spin then creates illusion of spinning in the other direction.
4. graveyard spiral, turning airplane you lose altitude you sensory systems make you feel your in level flight so you pitch up. Then you lose more altitude increasing rate of descent..
5. Somatogravic illusion, incorrectly perceiving acceleration.
6. Inversion illusion, a quick change from climb to level, makes it feel like tumbling back, then pushing forward.
7. Elevator illusion, an updraft draft causes a vertical acceleration. mistaking for a climb, then pitches down relatively little danger.
8. False horizon, caused by city lights, sloping clouds, stars, darkness. maneuvering the aircraft in a dangerous attitude.
9. Autokenesis, when staring at a light, that light appears to move. At night don’t stare at lights.

Question 14

What is standard temperature and pressure?

Answer 14

15 Celsius and 29.92 inches of mercury.

Question 15

What are the 3 main layers of the atmosphere?

Answer 15

Troposphere, Tropopause, Stratosphere…followed by Mesophere, thermosphere

Question 16

The cause of all weather is a result of

Answer 16

Heat exchange, uneven heating of the earth’s surface causes atmospheric circulation.

Question 17

Wind is the result of

Answer 17

changes or differences of pressure

Question 18

what are the 4 types of fog?

Answer 18

Advective, caused by horizontal movement of air over a cold surface. Sea fogs are always advection fogs. WIND REQUIRED
Steam, moist air mixing with cooler dry air. usually cool air over warm water. looks like wisps of smoke rising off the surface of water
Radiation, forms at night clear skies with calm winds. heat absorbed by earth’s surface. can reduce visibility to near zero. NO WIND
Upslope, light wind pushing moist air up a mountain side until it reaches the dew point.

Question 19

what is the difference between stable and unstable air?

Answer 19

stable air will have strataform clouds, fair to poor visibility. (can resist vertical movement)
unstable air cumulus clouds, showery rain, good visibility, strong surface winds.

Question 20

What is the difference between an airmass and a front?

Answer 20

air mass is a large body of air that has similar temp and moisture throughout.
a front is define as the transition zone between two air masses.

Question 21

what are the 4 main types of fronts?

Answer 21

Warm Front, vica versa
Cold Front, leading edge of colder air that is replacing warm
Stationary Front, front that is not moving
Occluded Front, when a cold front catches up to a warm front.

Question 22

what causes turbulance

Answer 22

convective currents (rising air), obstructions of wind flow, and wind shear.

Question 23

what are the 3 types of icing

Answer 23

Clear, hard and glossy forms after impact of large drops on plane. Then freezes on contact.
Rhyme, brittle and frost like. Smaller drops that freeze rapidly.
Mixed, hard and rough. often has snow mixed in with the rain.

Question 24

What 3 ingredients are needed of a thunderstorm to develop?

Answer 24

1. enough water vapor
2. unstable lapse rate
3. uplifting action

Question 25

What are the 3 stages of a thunderstorm?

Answer 25

1. Cumulus stage, initial updrafts
2. Mature stage, beginning of falling rain
3. dissapating stage, large down drafts and the storm rains itself out.

Question 26

What are iso bars?

Answer 26

lines on weather chart depicting areas of like pressure.