Stage 18 Flashcards
What are Aviation Instructor Responsibilities?
- Help students learn
- Demand adequate standards/performance
- Emphasize the positive
- Ensure aviation safety
- Provide adequate instruction
What are Flight Instructor Responsibilities?
- Provide student pilot evaluation and supervision
- Practical test recommendations and endorsements
- Additional endorsements
- See and Avoid
- Student pre-solo flight thought process
Characteristics of a good assessment?
ACTS OF CO Acceptable Comprehensive Thoughtful Specified
Objective
Flexible
Constructive
Organized
What are the Characteristics or BLOCKS of Learning?
RAMP Result of an Experience Active Process Multifaceted Purposeful
What are 5 important aspects of Professionalism that flight instructors should uphold?
- Sincerity
- Accepting the student
- Personal appearance and habits
- Demeanor
- Language
How can you minimize student frustration?
- Consistency
- Keep them informed
- Give them credit
- Admit your errors
What are the 4 types of hypoxia?
- Hypoxic (Altitude)
- Hypemic (Blood)
- Stagnant (Circulation)
- Histotoxic (Drugs)
What is Hypoxia?
A lack of sufficient O2!
What is the additional required equipment for IFR flight?
Generator/Alternator Radio (2-way) Altimeter Ball (Inclinometer) Clock (Installed, reading seconds) Attitude Indicator Rate of Turn Indicator Directional Gyro
What 2 inspections are mainly required for IFR flight?
VOR (every 30 days)
Pitot-Static (every 24 cal. months)
What does a Surface Analysis Chart cover?
- Issued every 3 hours
- Depicts troughs, ridges, and station observations
What does a Radar Summary Chart cover? When are the issued?
- Graphical display of info about precipitation and echo/cell movement
- Issued hourly at :35
In a winds aloft forecast, what does 731960 mean
- Wind speed is greater than 100 knots…subtract 50 from direction, add 100 to speed!
(73-50 = 23)
(100+19 = 119) - 230 at 119 knots, -60 degrees C
How often are Significant Weather Prognostic Charts issued? What do they cover?
4x a day
- Pressure systems, fronts, precipitation
- Freezing levels, turbulence, IFR/VFR categories, High and Low pressure systems
What are the 4 different METHODS of anti/de-icing?
- Chemical
- Thermal
- Electrical
- Pneumatic
What are some common methods of anti-icing?
- Pitot Heat
- Carb Heat
- Window Defrosters
What are some common methods of de-icing?
- Boots
- Chemical weeping (small pores in wing that secrete chemicals)
- Heat when turned on after ice has accumulated
AIRMETs are valid for ___ hours
SIGMIETs are valid for ___ hours
Convective SIGMETs are valid for ___ hours
Airmets - Valid for 6 hours
Sigmets - Valid for 4 hours
Convective Sigmets - Valid for 2 hours
How would you leave an uncontrolled airport that is in Class E airspace, and is below VFR weather minimums?
Special VFR!
- NEED: ATC clearance, 1sm, remain clear of clouds
- AT NIGHT: Instrument rated and IFR equipped
What is WAAS? What does it augment, and how? (Draw a Picture)
- Wide Area Augmentation System
- Corrects GPS positioning signal errors
1. WAAS Satellites send signals to surveyed positions on the ground with known, unchanging coordinates
2. Satellite signal indications are compared with the real ground station coordinates
3. Any identified errors are signaled to a Mother-Ground Station
4. Mother-Ground Station signals a Broad-casting satellite of the error
5. Broadcasting Satellite sends out the correction to the a/c