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Test your knowledge of pilot privileges with these questions from the AOPA Pilot Information Center.
1. If a certificated pilot changes their permanent mailing address and fails to notify the FAA Airmen Certification Branch of the new address, the pilot is entitled to exercise the privileges of the pilot certificate for a period of only
A. 60 days after the date of the move.
B. 30 days after the date of the move.
C. 90 days after the date of the move.
2. Which aircraft has the right of way over all other air traffic?
A. An aircraft in distress.
B. An aircraft on final approach to land.
C. A balloon.
3. Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) is the continuous broadcast of recorded information concerning
A. nonessential information to reduce frequency congestion.
B. noncontrol information in selected high-activity terminal areas.
C. pilots of radar-identified aircraft whose aircraft is in dangerous proximity to terrain or to an obstruction.
4. A memory aid about three Cessna 152 training aircraft and five F–111 jets helps student pilots stay VFR. What does it relate to?
A. Flight plan requirements.
B. Preflight weather requirements.
C. Visibility and cloud clearance requirements.
5. No person may operate an aircraft in acrobatic flight when
A. over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement.
B. flight visibility is less than 5 miles.
C. less than 2,500 feet agl.
Ace
Can you correctly answer these questions from retired TWA captain and 28,000-hour pilot Barry Schiff?
6. A pilot is taxiing along a narrow taxiway at a nontowered airport on a cloudless day when he notices a Cessna 172 approaching from the opposite direction. Without stopping, how can both pilots be certain that their wing tips will not touch as they pass one another?
7. According to the Aeronautical Information Manual, the intensity of snowfall can be estimated by the visibility restriction it causes. Snowfall is heavy when the visibility is less than _____ statute miles; it is light when more than _____ miles; and it is moderate when visibility is between these values.
A. one-eighth, one-quarter
B. one-quarter, one-half
C. one-half, 1
D. three-quarters, 1.5
8. According to FAA’s publication, Aviation Weather, the minimum wind speed of a jet stream is _____ knots, and the minimum sustained wind speed in a hurricane (typhoon) is _____ knots.
9. Which of the following contains the most chemical energy per gallon?
A. Jet A (kerosene)
B. 100LL (avgas)
C. Unleaded, regular automobile fuel (mogas)
D. Ethanol
10. True or false? Following their nonstop, unrefueled, 216-hour flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager in 1986, pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager were each allowed to log 216 hours of cross-country time.
Final Exam Answers
- The answer is B. Airman privileges are extended for only 30 days after the date of the change of permanent mailing address. (FAR 61.60)
- The answer is A. An aircraft in distress has the right of way over all other air traffic. (FAR 91.113[c])
- The answer is B. Information such as runway in use, winds, altimeter setting and weather, and notams, to name a few, are commonly broadcast via the ATIS on its discrete VHF radio frequency. (Aeronautical Information Manual 4-1-13)
- The answer is C. When flying at lower altitudes like a Cessna 152 does, 3 miles of visibility is required, and pilots must stay 1,000 feet above clouds, 500 feet below clouds, and 2,000 feet away from clouds horizontally. At higher altitudes where the F–111 flies, 5 miles of visibility is required, as is 1,000 feet above clouds, 1,000 feet below clouds, and 1 mile away from clouds.
- The answer is A. Also, aerobatics may not be performed over an open air assembly; in Class B, C, D, or E surface areas; below an altitude of 1,500 feet agl; within 4 nautical miles of the centerline of any victor airway; or when flight visibility is below 3 statute miles. (FAR 91.303)
- The pilots watch the shadows of their wing tips. If the shadows do not touch, then neither will the wings. Using shadows also can be a good way to avoid scraping someone else’s wing tip while parking and to observe rudder movement during the preflight runup at those times when the rudder cannot be observed directly.
- The answer is B. Light, moderate, and heavy drizzle intensity (but not rain intensity) can be estimated using the same values of visibility.
- 50 knots for a jet stream and 65 knots for a hurricane. Hurricane, by the way, comes from Huricán, the Carib Indian god of evil.
- The answer is A. In terms of chemical energy, mogas is next, avgas is next to last, and ethanol contains the least chemical energy per gallon.
- False. Neither pilot was allowed to log any cross-country flight time because the flight originated and terminated at Edwards Air Force Base, California. It did not include a landing anywhere other than the point of departure (as required by regulation) and technically was not a cross-country flight. Hopefully the FAA was benevolent about this and granted the pilots an exemption.
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