Stage 1 Guide Flashcards
What does the Pilot need to bring to a flight?
Government ID
Pilot certificate
Medicinal
Logbook
Required items to bring
Weight and balance sheet
First class medical under 40?
Privileges for 12 calendar months, then reverts to third class privileges for remaining 48 calendar months
First class medical 40 and over
Privileges for 6 calendar months, then reverts to second class
privileges for 6 calendar months, then reverts to third class
privileges for remaining 12 calendar months
2nd class medical (commercial and lower)
All ages Privileges for 12 calendar months, then reverts to third class
privileges for remaining duration of your age group
3rd Class (All other certificates) under 40
Privileges for 60 calendar months
3rd class medical (all other certifications) 40 or over
Privileges for 24 calendar months
Required documents for airplane
ARROW PDC
Airworthiness certificate (91.203)
Registration (91.203)
Radio station license
Operating limitations
Weight and balance (23.1589)
Placards
Data plate
Compass deviation card
Student pilot privileges and limitations 61.89
- Can’t take passengers
- Can’t act as PIC pilot in command
Without endorsement from instructor - must carry logbook when acting as PIC
What can or can’t Private Pilot do (61.113.)
- Can take passengers
- Must split all costs with passengers
- Does not need to carry logbook
To stay current currency 61.57
- To act as PIC
Rates in category (airplane) and class (single engine land)
Flight review in last 24 calendar months
~ to carry passengers
Day time: 3 takeoff and landings
Night time: 3 landing and takeoff full stop 1 hour after sunset to 1 hour before sunrise no touch and go
Inspections
Airworthiness Directives (AD)
Annual
Very high frequency omnidirectional range - 30 days
100hr
Altimeter - 24 calender months
Transponder - 24 calender months
ELT - 12 calender months
ELT battery - 1 cumulative hour or half battery life
Service Bulletin - Issued by manufacturer/ Can be immediate action, fix by date, or recurring
Required equipment
■ Airspeed indicator
■ Tachometer for each engine
■ Oil pressure gauge
■ Manifold pressure gauge
■ Altimeter l
■ Temperature gauge
■ Oil temperature
■ Fuel gauge
■ Landing gear indicator
■ Anti collision lights
■ Magnet Compass
■ Emergency Location Transmitter ELT
■ Safety Belts
Inoperative Equipment (91.213)
Determine if the inoperative equipment is required, in order of hierarchy:
1. Minimum equipment list (MEL)
a. A list of equipments required in operation when there is a particular equipment inoperative
b. FAA approved for the specific aircraft
2. POH/KOEL
3. Airworthiness directives (AD)
a. Regulatory maintenance directives issued by the FAA
4. Required equipment (91.205) ● Actions before operating the aircraft
○ Inop equipment must be removed/deactivated
○ Log in maintenance records if removed/deactivated by a mechanic
○ Placard “inop”
○ Pilot makes a final determination that the inop equipment still renders plane safe to fly
Preventative Maintenance
A holder of a pilot certificate may perform preventive maintenance ○ Part 43 Appendix A (c)
Special Flight Permit
Issued by FSDO (Flight Standards District Office)
● For an aircraft that may not currently meet applicable airworthiness requirements, but is capable of
safe flight
● Only for the purpose of flying the aircraft to a point of repairs
● Example: inoperative fuel quantity indicator, but the engine runs normally and the visual check of
the fuel tanks indicates more than enough fuel to complete the flight
Stall/Spin Awareness
● Stall
○ When airplane exceeds critical angle of attack
■ Can occur at any airspeed or attitude
● Spin
○ An aggravated stall where one wing is more stalled than the other
○ Caused by exceeding critical angle of attack and uncoordinated flight
○ Recovery (PARE)
■ Power idle
■ Ailerons neutral
■ Rudder full opposite
■ Elevator briskly forward
● Even if already pointed down directly at the Earth!
METAR
And what it stands for
○ Current/observed weather updated every 50 minutes past the hour
○ Be able to decipher METARs
Meteorological Aerodrome Report
TAF & what it stands for
○ Forecast valid 24 hours, updated every 6 hours
○ Be able to decipher TAFs
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast
Determining Crosswind/Limitations
○ Ability to read wind components figure (POH Section 5)
17 knots
Clock Method
■ Take the difference between wind direction and runway heading
■ Change degrees to “minutes”
■ Determine how far those “minutes” go around the clock
■ Convert to % of one hour
■ Take that % and multiply by the total wind component, you now have your
crosswind component!
● Example: Runway 15, wind 180 @ 16 knots
● 30 degrees off runway heading = 30 minutes
● 30 minutes = halfway around the clock (50%)
● 50% of 16k knots is 8 knots crosswind!
Airport, Runway, and Taxiway Signs, Makings, and Lighting
● Refer to AIM Section 3
Runway Incursion Avoidance
● An incident where an unauthorized aircraft, vehicle, or person is on a runway or runway protected area
● Prevention
○ Have the taxi diagram out and available
■ Brief instructions, hotspots along route
○ Read back instructions in full
○ Write down instructions
○ Practice sterile cockpit
○ Familiarize yourself with the airport layout, markings, and signs
○ When in runup area, tune into tower frequency to gain situational awareness of the runway
activities
Radio Communications
KADS radio guide
Traffic Patterns and Entry Procedures
Departure, crosswind, downwind base final, direct midway to downwind enter at 45° entry into traffic pattern, tier drop overtop runway cross over perform a banking turn to check for traffic before entering the traffic pattern on the downwind
