Chapter 7

Question 1

You must include an alternate airport in your flight plan, unless

Answer 1

1 hr before and 1 hr after your arrival
Ceiling is 2,000 ft
Visibility 3 SM

1-2-3 rule

Question 2

Standard alternate airport minimums:

Answer 2

🏴 Precision approach - 600 ft ceiling/ 2 SM visibility
🏴 Nonpresicion approach - 800 ft/ 2 SM
🏴 No instrument approach - a ceiling and visibility that allow for a descent from the MEA, approach, and landing under basic VFR conditions.

Question 3

APV approach

Answer 3

Approach w vertical guidance

Lateral guidance and vertical guidance in the form of a glide path display.

Question 4

To transition from the enroute structure to the approach structure, the approach might use:

Answer 4

🏴feeder route
🏴terminal arrival area (TAA)
🏴Radar vectors
🏴standard terminal arrival route (STAR)

Question 5

TDZE

Answer 5

The touchdown zone elevation is the highest elevation in the first 3,000 ft of the runway landing surface.

Question 6

TCH

Answer 6

The threshold crossing height is the AGL height at which you cross the threshold if you continue approach to a landing while remaining on the glide slope.

Question 7

DA vs DH

Answer 7

Decision altitude - the altitude at which you must decide whether to continue the approach or initiate a missed approach (MSL).
Decision height - height above touch touchdown (HAT) measured from the touchdown zone elevation.

Question 8

When a procedure title has an alphabetical suffix, such as VOR-A, it means that …

Answer 8

… the procedure does not meet the criteria for a straight-in landing.

Question 9

MSA

Answer 9

Minimum safe altitude provides 1,000 ft of obstruction clearance within 25 NM on the indicated facility.

Only for emergency

Question 10

VDP

Answer 10

Visual decent point represents a point from which you can make a normal descent to a landing, assuming you have the runway in sight and you are starting from the min decent altitude.

Question 11

Course reversal

Answer 11

Max IAS - 200 kts
Within 10 nm of the fix
Can be a holding pattern, a procedure turn, teardrop procedure.
Established to align the airplane inbound on the intermediate or final approach segment. Since some approach procedures don’t provide fir straight-in approach and you have to be vectored.

Question 12

MVA

Answer 12

Min vectoring altitude provides terrain and obstruction clearance in a given sector (used during the radar vectoring).
It can be lower than other minimum altitudes, such as MEA,MOCA.