Random Checkride Questions

Question 1

What’s a complex aircraft and what do you need

Answer 1

Retractable landing gear, flaps, and controllable pitch propeller

Question 2

What’s a high performance aircraft and what do you need

Answer 2

More then 200 horsepower, ground and flight training

Question 3

How is lift produced

Answer 3

The high pressure on the bottom of the wing wants to seek the low pressure on top so it creates lift

Question 4

What does ADAHRS stand for

Answer 4

Air data, altitude, heading reference

Question 5

What does the AD stand for how does it work and what does it show

Answer 5

Air data

• airspeed
• vertical speed
• altimeter

Air goes through the pitot mast, sensors, to air data computer to display on PFD

Question 6

What does AHRS stand for and how does it work

Answer 6

Altitude, heading reference

• Attitude indicator
• Slipskid
• Rate of turn

It uses rate sensors and & GPS

Question 7

What does the magnetometer show and how does it work

Answer 7

It shows the HSI horizontal situation indicator

It uses vertical and horizontal components of earths magnetic field