PPL Test Flashcards
Low Level Circuit
- Turn altitude on climb
- Circuit height
- Flap and speed
- Circuit shape
300ft commence turn on climb
500ft minimum legal, 700ft safer
1 flap 70kts (2 flap 60kts POH)
Both turns round continuous
EFATO process
1) 65kts and trim
2) Select field
3) Flaps as appropriate
4) Crash drill
5) Mayday
General approach speeds
70kts with flap 1 or 2
65kts with flap 3 or short final
Short field take off rotation
54kts
Shortfield landing differences
5kts lower approach (60kts)
Flap 3
Ditch flaps after touchdown
Go around
- Power up
- Pitch up (for level attitude)
- Drag flap up
- Attitude (level)
- Altitude
- Airspeed (climb, 55kts)
- +ve ROC
- Flap 20 -> 10 -> 0
- “G-xxxx going around”
Incipient stall signs (3/2)
- High attitude
- Low airspeed
- Sloppy controls
- Light buffet
- Stall warner
Full stall symptoms
- Nose drop
- Wing drop
- High ROD
- Heavy buffet
- Full stall warner
Stall Recovery
- lower nose until stall warner stops
- full power
- roll wings level
- climb away
Go around procedure to raise flaps
Spiral dive recovery
- Throttle closed
- Level wings with aileron & rudder
- Gradual recovery towards S&L then climb
- Add power when necessary
V(S0) and V(S1)
35kts, 40kts
V(fe)
85kts
V(ne)
149kts
V(a)
104kts
V(x)
55kts
V(y)
67kts
Glide speed
65kts
HASELL
Height
Airframe (flaps, brakes, trim)
Security (hatches, harnesses)
Engine (mixture, t’s & p’s)
Location (A, B, C, C, D)
Lookout (180 degrees)
ABCCD
Aerodromes
Built up areas
Cloud
Danger zones
MTOW
1670 lbs
Engine fire on start up procedure
- Crank engine 3-4 seconds
- Mixture idle cut-off
- Throttle open
- Fuel off
Engine failure on ground/in air
- Throttle closed
- Mixture idle cut-off
- Fuel off
- Ignition off
- Cabin heat off
- Radio call (mayday in air)
- Master switch off when appropriate
Engine re-start in air
- Carb heat on
- Mixture fully rich
- Fuel selector on
- Magnetos to both
- Master switch on
- Primer locked
- Exercise throttle
