141 Check Flashcards
1
Q
What are the cross-country VFR day fuel requirements?
A
- enough fuel to fly to the first airport of intended landing plus 1 hour at normal cruise
2
Q
What are the cross-country VFR night fuel requirements?
A
- enough fuel to fly to the first airport of intended landing plus 1.5 hours at normal cruise
3
Q
What are the cross-country IFR fuel requirements?
A
- enough fuel to fly to the first airport of intended landing, an alternate is required, plus hour 1 hour (day) or 1.5 hours (night) at normal cruise
4
Q
What are the dual flight weather minimums for the traffic pattern?
A
- 1,300 ft ceiling, 3 SM visbility
5
Q
What are the dual flight weather minimums for the practice area?
A
- 2,000 ft ceiling, 5 SM visbility
6
Q
What are the dual flight weather minimums for local IFR training?
A
- circling minimums
7
Q
What are the dual flight weather minimums for cross-country flights?
A
- federal regulations (enough fuel to fly to first airport of intended landing plus 30 minutes (day) or 45 minutes (night) at normal cruise
8
Q
What are the dual flight weather minimums for any flight?
A
- winds (including gusts) can not exceed 30 knots or max demonstrated crosswind
9
Q
What are the solo flight weather minimums for the practice area?
A
- 2,500 ft ceiling, 6 SM visibility
10
Q
What are the solo flight weather minimums for wind?
A
- 25 knots total, 15 knots crosswind
11
Q
What are the solo flight weather minimums for cross-country flights by rated private pilots?
A
- 1,000 ft ceiling above planned altitude, 6 SM visibility
12
Q
What are the solo flight weather minimums for cross-country flights by student pilots?
A
- 2,000 ft ceiling above planned altitude, 6 SM visbility
13
Q
What are the solo flight weather minimums for FA-119/121 student pilots?
A
- maximum gust spread can not exceed 7 knots
14
Q
Who should you contact if you discover equipment or instruments are inoperative?
A
- flight supervisor
15
Q
In order to perform cross-country flights further than 400 NM, what do you need to do?
A
- get approval from the chief flight instructor
16
Q
What are the 3 basic rules to remember during an emergency?
A
- maintain aircraft control
- analyze the situation and take corrective action
- land as soon as condition permit
17
Q
If you encounter deteriorating weather, what should you do?
A
- hold in good weather or divert
18
Q
If you experience lost comms at a towered airport while on the ground, what should you do?
A
- flash the landing light and remain clear of movement areas until you receive a light gun signal
19
Q
While on the ground, what does a steady green light mean?
A
- cleared for takeoff
20
Q
While in the air, what does a steady green light mean?
A
- cleared for landing
21
Q
While on the ground, what does a flashing green light mean?
A
- cleared for taxi
22
Q
While in the air, what does a flashing green light mean?
A
- return for landing
23
Q
While on the ground, what does a steady red light mean?
A
- stop
24
Q
While in the air, what does a steady red light mean?
A
- give way to other aircraft, and continue circling
25
While on the ground, what does a flashing red light mean?
- taxi clear of the runway in use
26
While in the air, what does a flashing red light mean?
- airport unsafe, do not land
27
While on the ground, what does a flashing white light mean?
- return to starting point
28
While on the ground, what does an alternating red/green light mean?
- exercise extreme caution
29
While in the air, what does an alternating red/green light mean?
- exercise extreme caution
30
If you experience lost comms at a non-towered airport while on the ground, what should you do?
- return to the ramp and contact flight supervisor
31
If you experience lost comms during VFR flight, what should you do?
- plan to land an appropriate non-towered airport
- squawk 7600
- call flight supervisor and flight service station (if on a flight plan)
32
What are the accident or incident notification procedures?
1. notify flight supervisor
| 2. list date and time, location, aircraft and tail number, type of injuries, description, and name of person reporting
33
What should you do if you experience an accident or incident while in the air?
1. contact the controlling agency
2. explain the situation
3. ask to notify ERAU
34
What should you do if you get lost?
1. fly the airplane
2. use pilotage to determine where you are
3. use navigation equipment
4. ask ATC for help
5. monitor fuel
6. land as soon as practical
35
When do you have give a landing safety briefing?
1. before all pre-solo dual training flights
2. before supervised solo flights
3. before any flight resulting in the issuance of a PQ card
36
What needs to be covered in a landing safety briefing?
1. proper seat height and position
2. point of visual focus during landings
3. go-around decisions
37
What are the ERAU drug and alcohol regulations?
Prohibited from flying when:
1. drinking alcohol w/in previous 12 hours
2. under the influence
3. using drugs or medicine that affects your piloting abilities
4. received a DUI and have not reported it
38
When must a go-around be performed?
- high round out
- late or rapid rollout
- excessive floating
- ballooning
- porposing
- wind shear
- any other factor placing a good landing in doubt
39
What are the conditions of a stable landing?
- constant final approach pitch
- trimmed
- airspeed w/in 5 knots
- landing configuration established
- on proper approach path
- on centerline
- "stable" callout at 100 ft AGL
40
How long is a PQ card valid for?
- 30 days
41
What are the flight instructor duty day restrictions?
1. no more than 8 hours of flight instruction in any 24 hour period
2. maximum of 6 consecutive working days
3. minimum of 10 hours off-duty time between duty periods
4. maximum duty period of 12 hours
42
What does the PIC have to do when refueling at a different airport?
- observe the fueling to ensure the right fuel is being used
43
What battery percentage on the iPad is required for local flights?
- 50%
44
What battery percentage on the iPad is required for cross-country flights?
- 80%
45
What are the local flight fuel requirements?
- 1/2 total usable fuel (27 gallons)
46
What are the supervised solo wind minimums?
- no more than 10 knots of wind, 5 knots of crosswind, and no adverse conditions
47
When do you need to turn the NAV light on?
- sunset
48
When can you log night time?
- after the beginning of evening civil twilight
49
when can you log night landings?
- 1 hour after sunset
50
How do you calculate fuel on board?
- (fuel remaining/cruise fuel burn rate) + est. time enroute
51
What are the weather conditions required for the ILS critical area to become active?
- ceilings below 800 ft, less than 2 SM visibility
52
How close to the VOR should you slow to your holding speed?
- 3 minutes
53
If you lose WAAS, will you still have RAIM?
- yes
54
If you lose RAIM, will you still have WAAS?
- no
55
What is an LPV approach?
- localizer performance w/ vertical guidance
| - must have WAAS
56
How low does an LPV approach get you?
- 200 ft AGL
57
Where is the outer marker (OM) located?
- final approach fix
58
Where is the middle marker (MM) located?
- 3,500 ft from the landing threshold/200 ft above touchdown elevation
59
Where is the inner marker (IM) located?
- DH on a CAT II approach
60
What is adverse yaw?
- the tendency for the airplane to yaw in the opposite direction of the turn
- caused by the increased induced drag on the outside of the wing, which also produced more lift
61
What is a TAA?
- technically advanced airplane
1. electronically advanced avionics (electronic PFD/MFD)
2. 2 axis auto-pilot integrated w/ the heading and navigation guidance system
62
When do you need to fly a departure procedure?
- when we cannot maintain visual separation w/ terrain
63
Instrument cockpit check
1. Mag compass (full of fluid, showing proper heading, compass correction card present)
2. COMS/NAVS (appropriate frequencies)
3. ASI (no red X's, zero)
4. Attitude indicator (no red X's, brick is centered)
5. Altimeter (no red X's, correct altimeter setting, w/in 75 ft)
6. HSI (heading matches magnetic compass, rate of turn arrow not present, NAV1/2 - move CDI 10° right/left/90°)
7. XPDR (proper code, alt mode)
8. TMR/REF (clock working, airspeeds set)
9. AP (check, off)
10. MFD (GPS status - RAIM/WAAS available, System Status - GPS CDI = AUTO/2NM, LRU's all green)
11. STBY instruments
64
What are the 4 ways to disengage autopilot?
1. AP DISC button on yoke
2. GA button
3. AP softkey
4. Move left side of electric trim control
65
What are the runway distance requirements for touch-and-go operations?
- available runway must be equal to or greater than the sum of the calculated take-off and landing distance over a 50' obstacle
66
What are the runway distance requirements for take-offs?
- available runway must be greater than the sum of the take-off/landing ground roll or take-off distance over a 50' obstacle
67
When do you need to perform a short-field take-off?
- available runway is less than required take-off distance plus 500'
68
When are simulated aborted take-offs to an actual take-off prohibited?
- available runway is less than the required take-off distance plus 1,000'
69
What are the weather requirements to operate in IMC?
- temperature at the minimum IFR altitude is at or above +5° C
70
What are the solo flight practice area restrictions?
- all local solos must be within ERAU practice areas
| - student pilots must remain w/in 25 NM of the airport
71
What are the solo flight length restrictions?
- 2 hours w/ 1 hour rest in between
72
What are the recency of experience requirements for solo flights?
- must have completed 3 take-off/landings w/in the previous 90 days
73
What runways can FA119/121 students use for take-offs and landings?
- 3R or 21L
74
What are the night solo restrictions?
1. tower must be operating
2. pattern only
3. full stop landings
4. must end before tower closes
5. no more than 1.7
6. must have completed a dual night flight w/in previous 30 days
75
What is the autopilot minimum engagement speed?
- 70 knots
76
What is the autopilot maximum engagement speed?
- 163 knots
77
When must autopilot be disengaged on an approach?
- 200 ft AGL
78
What is the lowest altitude the autopilot can be engaged?
- 800 ft AGL
79
When should you prime the engine before starting?
- temperature is 5° C or less and the engine is cold
80
What are the starter cycle restrictions?
- do not crank for more than 10 seconds
- allow 20 seconds between cranks
- repeat no more than 6 times
- let starter rest for 30 minutes before trying again
81
When are you not allowed to start the engine?
1. aircraft parked immediately adjacent to and in the same row is being fuels
2. aircraft parked directly in front is being fueled
3. fuel truck is in your row and blocking your normal taxi route
82
What are the limitations of the ADS-B traffic function?
1. aircraft must be in radar coverage
| 2. must be w/in line of sight from ADS-B ground based transmitter
83
What airspeed do we want during a hold?
- 90 knots
84
What airspeed do we want on the final approach course?
- 80 knots (flaps 10°)
85
What airspeed do we want during the initial segment of an approach?
- 100 knots
86
What airspeed do we want during the intermediate segment of an approach?
- 90 knots
87
What is the rule of thumb for leveling off?
- lead climb/descents by 10% of VSI
88
What is the rule of thumb for power settings during changes in vertical velocity or airspeed?
- 100 RPM = 100 FPM or 5 knots or airspeed
89
What is the rule of thumb for determining our rate of descent on a 3° glide slope?
- VSI = GS x 5
90
How can you calculate VDP?
- HAT at MDA / 300
91
What is the rule of thumb for turns to magnetic compass headings?
- UNOS (undershoot north, overshoot south)
- North = undershoot by latitude + bank angle
- South = undershoot by latitude - bank angle
- East/West = lead by 1/2 bank angle
92
What is the 60:1 rule?
- 1° of arc = 1 NM (6,000') at 60 NM
93
What is the rule of thumb for determining the angle of bank for a standard rate turn?
- 15% of TAS
94
Vertical S-A
- 80 knots/400 FPM/500 ft block of altitude
| - maintain constant heading
95
Vertical S-B
- 80 knots/400 FPM/500 ft block of altitude
| - standard rate turn throughout
96
Vertical S-C
- 80 knots/400 FPM/500 ft block of altitude
| - reverse direction of standard rate turn at bottom
97
Vertical S-D
- 80 knots/400 FPM/500 ft block of altitude
| - reverse direction of standard rate turn at top/bottom
98
Adverse yaw demonstration
1. position #1 reference point on prominent landmark
2. roll into 30° turn w/out rudder
3. notice how the nose yaws opposite the direction of the turn
99
Lateral stability demonstration
1. Establish 20° turn/neutralize aileron/rudder
2. trim as necessary
3. return to S/L
4. repeat w/ 30° and 45° turn
100
Aborted take-off
1. Reduce power to idle and callout "abort, abort, abort"
| 2. full aerodynamic braking
101
Instrument take-off
1. align airplane w/ runway centerline and hold brakes
2. 1,000 RPM
3. release brakes/increase power to full
4. rotate at 60 knots
102
Wind drift circle
1. 1000 ft AGL
2. select prominent ground reference point
3. fly over reference point
4. 30° bank/90 knots
5. wings level after 360° of turn
103
How do you calculate pivotal altitude?
- (GS squared)/11.3
104
Give me a holding clearance.
"Riddle (tail number), hold (direction from the fix) of _ DME on the _ radial from Drake, expect further clearance ___.
105
Give me an arc clearance.
"Riddle (tail number), arc (direction), from the _ radial to the _ radial at _ DME, then proceed (direction)
