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30 Cards in this Set
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What do you need in the plane before you can fly?
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A- Airworthiness certificate
R- Registration O- Owner's manual W- Weight and balance |
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What makes the plane airworthy?
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Annual inspection done by A&P IA, 100 hour done by A&P, Transponder inspection within 24 calendar months, ELT inspection every 12 calendar months or replaced if used for more than one cumulative hour, or half the battery life is used.
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What does a private pilot need on them before they fly?
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Med cert, picture I.D., Pilot's license
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What does a private pilot need to stay current?
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A bi-annual flight review
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What are the privileges when you are a private pilot?
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You can take up passengers as long it's not for hire and they're only paying the pro rata share, and can only be 100% comped if flying for charity
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What do you have to do stay current when taking up passengers during day and night?
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Perform at least 3 touch and go's in the same category and class aircraft that you'll be flying in. At night, must be full stop landings and at least one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise.
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How long is your medical good for?
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3rd class, good for 5 years if under 40, 2 if not.
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Difference between a METAR and TAF?
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METAR- updated every hour except for SPECI reports for rapidly changing weather
TAF- Information for the 5 mile radius of an airport. Issued 4 times a day, valid for 24 hours |
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Wind direction for METAR is magnetic or true?
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Magnetic
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Max baggage weight 200 lbs?
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Any more and the CG would be too far after for a safe flight.
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How do you recover from a spin?
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P- bring POWER to idle
A- level AILERONS R- RUDDER in opposite direction of the spin E- push down on the ELEVATOR |
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Can your aircraft spin?
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In the Utility category
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What is an imminent stall?
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When the stall light is illuminated and the aircraft is buffeting.
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When can a spin happen?
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After the airplane stalls.
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What part of a flight is a stall most likely to happen?
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On take-off or landing.
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What kind of engine does the plane have?
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150 hp, 4 stroke, fixed pitch, lycoming engine.
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How much oil does it take?
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6-8 quarts
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If you were landing with a 12 knot crosswind what would you do?
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Landing, point wing in direction of wind, topside rudder in opposite direction to keep nose on centerline. No more than 25 degrees of flaps.
Taking off, keep ailerons in direction of wind until close to 5 knots of rotation speed, during liftoff use rudder to crab into wind keeping centered during climbout |
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If you're landing with 10 knots gusting to 20, what would your approach speed be?
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Cut the difference between the gusting speed in half and add it to your final speed, i.e. 80 knots.
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If your plane was at gross weight and hit turbulence what would you do?
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Slow down
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If a big aircraft that caused wake turbulence was touching down in front of you, where would you land? Takeoff?
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Land after him, takeoff before him.
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Would you be behind a large taxiing aircraft? How long would you wait until he passed?
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No, wait 3 minutes after passed to follow behind.
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Lost radios procedures?
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Squawk code 7600, observe traffic pattern, wait for steady green to enter pattern and land.
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Light gun signals
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Steady Green- Clear to land/Clear to takeoff
Flashing Green- Clear to taxi/ Return to land Steady Red- Stop/give way Flashing Red- Taxi clear of runway/Do not land Flashing white- Return to Ramp Alternating Red + Green- use caution |
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Lights on the sides of the plane?
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Left= Red
Right= Green |
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When do you need Nav lights, landing lights, beacon?
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Nav/ Landing, at night
Beacon, always. |
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Vx, Vy, Vr, Va, and best glide speed?
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Vx-78
Vy-89 Vr-55 Va-129 Glide-83 |
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What would you do if you had a 250 RPM on magneto check during run-up?
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Run through mag burnout checklist, if still not working, cancel flight, call mechanic.
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How much fuel does the airplane hold? How much is usable?
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Holds 50,
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Would you crack your door in an emergency landing?
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Yes
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