Oral Flashcards
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What documentation is required for a pilot during the IFR checkride?
Pilot license, government photo ID, medical certificate.
This documentation is essential for verifying the pilot’s qualifications.
What documentation is required for the airplane during the IFR checkride?
Airworthiness Certificate, Registration, Operating Handbook, Weight and Balance.
These documents ensure the aircraft is compliant with regulations.
What aircraft inspections are required and how often must they be completed?
- Annual: every 12 calendar months
- VOR: every 30 days
- 100-hour (for hire)
- Altimeter/Pitot-static: every 24 calendar months
- Transponder: every 24 calendar months
- ELT: every 12 calendar months
- ELT battery: at half of useful life or 1 hour of continuous use.
ADs are handled with the annual inspection unless they are recurring.
What is the correct logging information for VOR checks?
D.E.P.S. – Date, Error, Place, Signature.
This information is crucial for maintaining accurate records of VOR checks.
What is the allowable error for VOR checks?
Dual +/- 4
VOT +/- 4
VOR Ground +/- 4,
VOR Air +/-6
What are the ways to obtain a clearance for an IFR flight?
- Ground control (e.g. RNT)
- Clearance Delivery frequency (e.g. PAE) or phone (A/FD)
- Call ATC from the air after taking off VFR
- FSS in the air or by phone (1-800-WX-BRIEF)
What are the effects of icing on an aircraft?
- Changes flight characteristics:
Increases stall speed
Increases drag
Increases weight
Decreases lift
Decreases thrust. - Affects instrument readings
How should a pilot land an aircraft if ice has formed on it?
In the 172, approach 75kt, flaps up, land flat
What should a pilot do if they encounter ice while flying 2000’ above MEA and at 0 C?
Descend to above-freezing temps
Climbing or descending can help avoid further ice accumulation.
You are at MEA and have picked up ice. What could you do?
- ATC’s minimum vectoring altitude might get you above freezing
- Climbing might get you above clouds or into very cold air where ice won’t form
You just started to pick up ice, what is something else you can do?
While climbing or descending might get you to non-icing conditions, turning back to where you know there was no ice is often the best bet. You may have just encountered a front.
What is the frequency for a Flight Service Station (FSS)?
122.2.
What’s a SIGMET?
Inflight weather advisory for significant meterological hazards. Cover an area of 3000+ sq mi.
Issued for severe icing, dust storms, turbulance, and volcanic ash.
What’s a convective SIGMET?
- Embedded thunderstorms
- A line of thunderstorms
- Thunderstorms with heavy precipitation affecting 40%+ of an area at least 3,000 square miles
- Surface winds 50+ knots due to severe thunderstorm
- Hail 3/4+ inches in diameter
- Tornadoes
How long are AIRMETS and SIGMETS valid?
AIRMET: 6 hrs
SIGMET: 4 hrs
Conv. SIGMET: 2 hrs
You are stabilized and your VSI suddenly jumps, what is the cause?
Wind shear: a sudden change of wind speed and/or direction over a short distance
When is it necessary to report equipment failure?
91.187 requires reports of malfunctions of navigational, approach, or communication equipment occurring in flight and the degree to which the capability of the pilot to operate under IFR in the ATC system is impaired and the nature and extent of assistance desired from ATC.
IFR pilots are also required to report any safety-of-flight issue, so failure of required equipment should also be reported.
Do you have to report VSI failure?
No, it’s not required and its failure is unlikely to endanger the flight.
If the VSI fails, what’s the likely cause?
Static port blockage
What’s the allowable altimeter error?
75’
What are the fuel requirements for an IFR flight?
To reach the destination plus 45 minutes without an alternate, or to reach the destination, then the alternate, plus 45 minutes with an alternate.
Don’t fail to include approach/missed time
What instrument readings change as a result of using alternate static air?
VSI will jump momentarily and airspeed and altitude will read high
What ATC reports are required?
STALLMUUVA
What is the minimum crossing altitude (MCA)?
The altitude that must be reached at a specific fix when crossing it.
