Flight Instructor Airplane Missed Questions

The operator of an aircraft that has been involved in an accident is required to file a report within how many days?

10

A flight instructor who applies for an additional rating on that certificate must have a minimum of how many hours as PIC in the category and class of aircraft appropriate to the rating sought?

15

The type and date of each student pilot endorsement given shall be maintained by each flight instructor. For what period of time is this record required to be retained?

3 Years

During S-turn practice, which positions require the steeper angle of bank?

3 and 4 - when the aircraft is flying downwind.

AN airplane has a normal stalling speed of 60 knots but is forced into an accelerated stall at twice that speed. What maximum load factor will result from this maneuver?

4 G's

The minimum distant at which an airplane may be operated over a structure which is located in a sparsely populated area is?

500 feet from the structure.

What is the maximum distance from an airport that an aircraft engaged in training operations may be operated without an emergency locator transmitter?

50NM

Which position will require the steepest bank?

7 - When the aircraft is flying downwind.

A flight instructor's certificate, with multi-engine and instrument ratings, expires. As a CFI you know that?

A check ride in a single-engine airplane will renew all ratings.

Anemic hypoxia has the same symptoms as hypoxic hypoxia but it is most often a result of?

A leaking exhaust manifold.

A wing with a very high aspect ratio (in comparison with a low aspect ratio wing) will have?

A low stall speed.

Changes in the center of pressure of a wing affect the aircraft's?

Aerodynamic balance and controllability.

In the northern hemisphere, which would be correct about starting the roll out from a turn using a magnetic compass? Start the roll out?

After the compass indication passes south by a number of degrees approximately equal to the latitude minus the normal roll out lead.

Two distinct flight situations should be covered when teaching slow flight. These are the establishment and maintenance of?

Airspeeds appropriate for landing approaches, and flight at reduced airspeeds.

What effect does haze have on the ability to see traffic or terrain features during flight?

All traffic or terrain features appear to be farther away than their actual distance.

Concerning the advantages of an aircraft generator or alternator, select the true statement.

An alternator provides more electrical power at lower engine RPM than a generator.

A person whose flight instructor certificate has been suspended may not?

Apply for any rating to be added to that certificate during the period of suspension.

When should a flight instructor begin teaching aeronautical decision making (ADM) to a student?

As soon as the student is able to control the aircraft during basic maneuvers.

How should an instructor introduce distractions?

Ask the student to get something from the back seat.

Success in reducing stress associated with a crisis in the cockpit begins with?

Assessing stress areas in one's personal life.

Certain flight training is required for the issuance of a certificate. If that instruction is in a helicopter or multi engine airplane, the instructor is required, in part to have?

At least 5 hours of experience as pilot in command in the make and model of the aircraft involved.

What instrument (s) is (are) supporting bank instruments (s) when entering a constant airspeed climb from straight-and-level flight?

Attitude indicator and turn coordinator.

Which instruments are considered primary and supporting for bank, respectively, when establishing a level standard rate turn?

Attitude indicator and turn coordinator.

A flight instructor applicant must demonstrate spins in an airplane or glider when?

Being retested for deficiencies in instructional proficiency on stall awareness or spins demonstrated during an initial test.

What action should be taken if a glider and an airplane approach each other at the same altitude on a head-on collision course.

Both should give way to the right.

A new maintenance record being used for an aircraft engine rebuilt by the manufacturer must include the previous?

Changes required by airworthiness directives.

When refueling aircraft, which precaution would be adequate for eliminating the potential hazard of static electricity?

Connect a ground wire between the aircraft, fuel truck, fuel nozzle, and ground.

In the Northern Hemisphere, if an aircraft is accelerated or decelerated, the magnetic compass will normally indicate?

Correctly when on a north or south heading while either accelerated or decelerating.

The use of a slot in the leading edge of the wing enables an airplane to land at a slower speed because it?

Delays the stall to a higher angle of attack.

To endorse a student pilot for a solo cross-country privileges, an instructor is required, in part, to have?

Determined that the student's preparation, planning, and procedures are adequate for the proposed flight under the existing conditions.

The primary purpose of practicing operations at reduced airspeed is to enable students to?

Develop proficiency in their sense of feel and their ability to use the controls properly at various speeds.

What could be a result of a student focusing too far ahead during a landing approach?

Difficulty in judging the closeness of the ground resulting in a nose-first touchdown.

Under normal conditions, a proper crosswind landing on a runway requires that, at the moment of touchdown, the?

Direction of motion of the aircraft and its longitudinal axis be parallel to the runway.

During level turns in side-by-side airplanes, which is characteristic of student performance?

Diving during left turns because the nose appears to rise during entry into these turns.

A swept wing airplane with weak static directional stability and increased dihedral causes an increase in?

Dutch roll tendency.

The distance a propeller actually advances in one revolution is?

Effective pitch.

Which subsonic plan form provides the best lift coefficient?

Elliptical wing.

During a steady climb, the rate of climb depends on?

Excess power.

An airplane leaving ground effect will?

Experience a decrease in stability and a nose up change in moments.

An application for a student pilot certificate must be submitted in person to any of the following?

Flight standards district office, flight instructor, designated pilot examiner.

Which type of flap creates the greatest change in pitching moment?

Fowler

Which type of flap is characterized by large increases in lift coefficient with minimum changes in drag?

Fowler flap.

To endorse a student pilot's logbook for solo flight, an instructor is required, in part, to have?

Given that student flight training in the type of aircraft involved.

The indicated lift-off airspeed for short-field takeoffs in a particular aircraft will normally be?

Greater than for soft- or rough-field takeoffs.

The holder of a ground instructor certificate with an advanced rating is authorized to provide?

Ground training in aeronautical knowledge areas for any pilot certificate or rating except the instrument rating.

The holder of a Ground Instructor Certificate with an advanced rating is authorized to provide?

Ground training required for any flight review.

An airship has the right of way over which aircraft?

Gyroplane

Your student has a commercial certificate with an airplane rating. In order for him to be certificated to fly the Sikorsky-61 as a Commercial Pilot, as an instructor you know that he will need to?

Have 10 hours in the Sikorsky-61 and take a practical test.

What requirements(s) must an authorized instructor meet in order to prepare an airplane applicant for an initial flight instructor certificate?

Held a flight instructor certificate for at least 24 months and given a minimum of 200 hours of flight training.

Choose the statement pertaining to a slip or skid in an airplane?

In a right descending turn, if excessive left rudder is applied to compensate for the decreased torque effect, a slip will result.

With regard to gyroscopic precession, when a force is applied at a point on the rim of a spinning disc, the resultant force acts in which direction and at what point?

In the same direction as the applied force, 90 degrees ahead in the plane of rotation.

One requirement for a student pilot to be authorized to make a solo cross-country flight is an endorsement?

In the student's logbook that the preflight planning and recuperation has been reviewed and the student is prepared to make the flight safely.

The amount of water absorbed by aviation fuels will?

Increase as the temperature of the fuel increases.

The purpose of aircraft wing dihedral angle is to?

Increase lateral stability.

Which can result when operating in the region of reverse command?

Increased nose-up pitch causes increased rate of descent.

Which would likely result in a slipping turn?

Increasing the rate of turn without using rudder.

Which relationship is correct when comparing drag and airspeed?

Induced drag varies inversely as the square of airspeed.

During power-off stalls with flaps full down, the stall occurs and the pointer on the airspeed indicator shows a speed less than the minimum limit of the white arc on the indicator. This is most probably due to?

Installation error in the pitot-static system.

From sunset to sunrise, no person may park or move an aircraft in a night flight operations area of an airport unless the aircraft?

Is in an area marked by obstruction lights.

If the airspeed increases and decreases during longitudinal phugoid oscillations, the aircraft?

Is maintaining a nearly constant angle of attack.

Fuel injection systems, compared to carburetor systems, are generally considered to be?

Just as susceptible to impact icing.

During flight with zero angle of attack, the pressure along the upper surface of a wing would be?

Less than atmospheric pressure.

A recreational pilot with less than 400 hours flight time may not act as pilot in command unless the pilot has?

Logged PIC time in the last 180 days.

To minimize the side loads placed on the landing gear during touchdown, the pilot should keep the?

Longitudinal axis of the aircraft parallel to the direction of its motion.

Information recorded during normal operation by a required cockpit voice recorder in a passenger-carrying airplane?

May all be erased except the last 30 minutes.

A line drawn from the leading edge to the trailing edge of an airfoil and equidistant at all points from the upper and lower contours is called the?

Mean camber line.

What is one requirement for an aircraft furnished for a practical test?

Must have no prescribed operating limitation that prohibit its use in any required area of operation.

When is a recreational pilot required to carry a logbook with the required endorsement?

On all flights when serving as pilot in command.

The holder of an expired Flight Instructor Certificate may exchange that certificate for a new one by?

Passing the appropriate practical test.

The most desirable type of stability for an aircraft to possess is positive dynamic stability?

Positive dynamic stability.

Students should be taught that throughout a level, 720D steep turn to the right, the rudder is normally used to?

Prevent Yawing.

The resistance, or skin friction, due to the viscosity of the air as it passes along the surface of a wing is called?

Profile drag.

Which statement is true regarding propeller efficiency?

Propeller efficiency is the ratio of thrust horsepower to brake horsepower.

To operate an aircraft on a solo flight within Class B airspace, a student must a logbook endorsement showing that he/she has?

Received ground instruction on an flight instruction in that specific airspace for which solo flight is authorized.

How should a student be tought to correct for a nose-low attitude during a steep turn?

Reduce the angle of bank, then apply back elevator pressure to attain the desired pitch attitude.

The holder of a Ground Instructor Certificate may not exercise the privileges of that certificate unless that person has?

Served as a ground instructor within the preceding 12 months.

Risk management, as a part of ADM process, relies on which features to reduce the risks associated with each flight?

Situation awareness, problem recognition, and good judgement.

During the entry to a right turn, the nose of the aircraft swings slightly to the left before it swings along the horizon to the right. This is a?

Slipping entry; more right rudder pressure should have been applied for the amount of aileron pressure being used.

Which type of flap creates the least change in pitching moment?

Split.

During go-arounds from full-flap approach in conventional airplanes, which procedure should be used if the flight manual does not specify differently

Start retracting the flaps first, then retract the gear.

When beginning a rectangular course, the determining factor in deciding the distance from the field boundary at which an aircraft should be flown is the?

Steepness of the bank desired in the turns.

Which aircraft characteristics contribute to s[spiral instability?

Strong static directional stability and weak dihedral effect.

On which wing plan form does the stall begin at the wingtip and progress inward toward the wing root?

Sweep back wing.

What is the correct departure procedure at a non controlled airport?

The FAA-approved departure procedure for that airport.

What should be the indication on the magnetic compass as you roll into a standard rate turn to the right from a south heading in the Northern Hemisphere?

The compass will indicate a turn to the right, but at a faster rate than is actually occurring.

Detonation in an aircraft engine is most likely to occur whenever?

The engine is operated under conditions which cause the fuel mixture to burn instantaneously.

Consider only aspect ratio (other factors remain constant. Which aircraft will generate greatest drag?

The one with the lowest aspect ratio.

A private pilot has completed three takeoffs and three landings to a full stop within the preceding 90 days in a tricycle-gear airplane, single-engine land, and decides to take a passenger for a flight in a tail wheel airplane, single-engine land. Since these aircraft are of the same category and class, the pilot is current in?

The tricycle-gear airplane.

When rolling out of a steep-banked turn, what causes the lowered aileron to create more drag than when rolling into the turn?

The wing's angle of attack is greater as the roll out is started.

To be eligible for a Commercial Pilot Certificate, one of the requirements is for the applicant to hold at least a valid?

Third Class Medical Certificate

Which statement describes the relationship of the forces acting on an aircraft in a constant-power and constant-airspeed descent?

Thrust is equal to drag; lift is equal to weight.

A propeller rotating clockwise, as seen from the rear, creates a spiraling slipstream that tends to rotate the aircraft?

To the left around the vertical axis, and to the right around the longitudinal axis.

An illusion that the aircraft is at a higher altitude than it actually is, is produced by?

Up sloping terrain.

During practice of lazy eights, the most probable cause of the uncoordinated situation at the completion of 90 of turn is the?

Use of too much right rudder pressure.

The low temperature that causes carburetor ice in an engine equipped with a float-type carburetor is normally the result of the?

Vaporization of fuel and expansion of air in the carburetor.

When an aircraft is being flown over water, under what circumstances must approved flotation gear be readily available to each occupant?

When operating for hire beyond power-off gliding distance from shore.

Aspect ratio of a wing is defined as the ratio of the?

Wingspan to the mean chord.

As a result of gyroscopic precession, it can be said that any?

Yawing around the vertical axis results in a pitching moment.

Your student, who is preparing for a Private Pilot practical test in a single-engine airplane, received 3.5 hours of cross -country flight training including flights of 1.9 hours, 1.0 hours, and 0.6 hours. Is your student eligible to take the practical test?

Yes.

A foreign national receive flight training and completed solo flights outside the U.S. and comes to you to complete flight training and obtain a private pilot certificate. As CFI, you know that?

You can continue with the student, endorsing the 14 CFR part 61 requirements once they have been met.