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Self Assessment Questions
Some self assessment questions are given below:
Air Law and Operational Procedures Aeroplanes
1. What is the minimum age to fly solo as a student pilot?
2. Who has the right in ICAO to search an aircraft?
3. What are the recency requirements for carriage of passengers by day?
4. What is the meaning of a continuous red light from ATC to an aircraft in the air?
5. What are the dimensions of a MATZ?
6. What is the weather minima for a PPL (A), carrying passengers, below 3000 ft and 140 kts in uncontrolled airspace?
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Meteorology
1. Where would you find the value of the QNH?
2. What are the basic conditions favourable to the formation of mountain waves?
3. In a TAF you see the word TEMPO. What does it mean?
4. What are the essential factors for the development of a thunderstorm?
5. What is the SALR?
6.
When does radiation fog form?
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Human Performance and Limitations
1. What is Risky Shift?
2. What is the most important requirement when designing a flight display?
3. How is information retained in our working memory?
4. What is Selective Attention?5. What is the Somatogravic Illusion?
6. What should you do if someone is hyperventilating?
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Aircraft General and Principles of Flight
1. What should you do if a CB pops out in flight?
2. What conditions favour carburettor icing?
3. Why are flight controls Mass Balanced?
4. What is a Fowler Flap?
5. When does an aircraft wing stall?
6. When a aircraft is gliding what does a Lift/Drag ratio of 10:1 mean?
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Navigation and Radio Navigation
1. If the highest point on a route was a mast 946 ft amsl what is your MSA?
2. Given a track of 345ºT and a of variation 4ºE what is the magnetic track?
3. Define QFE?
4. Given altitude 5000 ft, outside air temperature 5ºC and CAS 140 kts, what is the TAS?
5. Convert 25 imperial gallons to litres?
6. On a 100 nm leg you take a fix at 25 nm along track and estimate your track error to be 6º. What is the heading correction required to reach your destination?
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Communications - Theory
1. What type of service can you get from LARS?
2. When asked by ATC to 'Pass your message' what information should be passed by the pilot?
3. What is the accuracy of a class 'B' VDF bearing?
4. What does 'Squawk Charlie' mean?
5. What does the callsign 'Hereford Radio' imply?
6. Using the readability scale what does 'Readability 3' mean?
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IMC Rating
1. Your ground speed is 70 kts and the ILS glide path is 3º what is the required rate of descent?
2. What is the localiser coverage for a category 1 ILS?
3. Within what frequency band does a VOR operate?
4. State how you would fly a sector 1 entry to a right hand holding pattern?
5. When would you switch on the BFO?
6. What is the principle of operation of a DME?
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Seamanship
1. When a seaplane is approaching another vessel head on. What action should be taken?
2. Under the IALA Buoyage Region A what colour are the Port Hand Lateral Marks?
3. What are Cardinal Marks used for?
4. What is the Drying Height?
5. How often do Spring Tides occur?
6. What colour are Cardinal Marks?
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