Final Exam Com
Using the Seminole's performance charts you have determined its climb rate will be 1,400 FPM. However, if you lose one engine during the climb, what will be its climb capability on one engine?
20 percent or 280 FPM
The most probable reason an engine continues to run after the ignition switch has been turned off is
A broken magneto ground wire
Q-05 In a multiengine airplane, while flying single-engine, accelerated slipstream caused by the operating engine results in ...
A roll towards the inoperative engine
Q-12 Accelerate stop distance for ERAU is equal to adding takeoff distance with ________ plus _______ ft.
Abnormal Flap Landing Distance; 500
For light twins, which of the following calculations is helpful in determining the distance required to abort a takeoff?
Accelerate-stop distance
Q-02 Which factors determine the critical engine? (Select ALL that apply.)
Accelerated Slipstream, Torque, P-Factor
Q-02 Which factors determine the critical engine? (Select ALL that apply.)
Accelerated Slipstream, Torque, P-Factor
You are flying an aircraft equipped with an electronic flight display and the air data computer fails. What instrument is affected?
Answer: Airspeed indicator
What effect, if any, would a change in ambient temperature or air density have on gas turbine engine performance?
Answer: As temperature increases, thrust decreases.
A propeller's angle of incidence is the greatest
Answer: At the hub, which permits the same amount of lift to be created along the blade's length.
Why should flight speeds above VNE be avoided?
Answer: Design limit load factors may be exceeded, if gusts are encountered.
The angle of attack of a cruise propeller is
Answer: Higher than that of a climb propeller and creates more drag.
What is an advantage of an electric turn coordinator if the airplane has a vacuum system for other gyroscopic instruments?
Answer: It is a backup in case of vacuum system failure.
What steps must be taken when flying in glass flight decks to ensure safe flight?
Answer: Regularly scan both inside and outside, use all appropriate checklists, and cross-check with other forms of information.
What is a benefit of flying with a glass flight deck?
Answer: Situational awareness is increased.
What will occur if no leaning is made with the mixture control as the flight altitude increases?
Answer: The density of air entering the carburetor decreases and the amount of fuel remains constant.
Which airspeed would a pilot be unable to identify by the color coding of an airspeed indicator?
Answer: The maneuvering speed
What is pitch setting?
Answer: The propeller blade setting determined by the blade angle measured in a manner, and at a radius, specified in the propeller's instruction manual
Which statement best describes the operating principle of a constant-speed propeller?
Answer: The propeller control regulates the engine RPM and in turn the propeller RPM.
Point C references
Answer: VA.
Structural damage or failure is more likely to occur in smooth air at speeds above
Answer: VNE.
The most probable reason an engine continues to run after the ignition switch has been turned off is
Answer: a broken magneto ground wire.
A fixed-pitch propeller is designed for best efficiency only at a given combination of
Answer: airspeed and RPM.
The reason a 4-cylinder reciprocating engine continues to run after the ignition switch is positioned to OFF may be a
Answer: broken magneto ground wire.
Your aircraft has an exhaust manifold type heating system. The exhaust manifold is periodically inspected to avoid
Answer: carbon monoxide poisoning.
The basic purpose of adjusting the fuel/air mixture control at altitude is to
Answer: decrease the fuel flow to compensate for decreased air density.
To establish a climb after takeoff in an aircraft equipped with a constant-speed propeller, the output of the engine is reduced to climb power by decreasing manifold pressure and
Answer: decreasing RPM by increasing propeller blade angle.
Pilots are required to have the anti-collision light system operating
Answer: during all types of operations, both day and night
Applying carburetor heat will
Answer: enrich the fuel/air mixture.
At high altitudes, an excessively rich mixture will cause the
Answer: fouling of spark plugs.
Fouling of spark plugs is more apt to occur if the aircraft
Answer: gains altitude with no mixture adjustment
The vertical line from point D to point G is represented on the airspeed indicator by the maximum speed limit of the
Answer: green arc.
A way to detect a broken magneto primary grounding lead is to
Answer: idle the engine and momentarily turn the ignition off
In aircraft equipped with constant-speed propellers and normally-aspirated engines, which procedure should be used to avoid placing undue stress on the engine components? When power is being
Answer: increased, increase the RPM before increasing the manifold pressure.
What is an operational difference between the turn coordinator and the turn-and-slip indicator? The turn coordinator
Answer: indicates roll rate, rate of turn, and coordination; the turn-and-slip indicator indicates rate of turn and coordination.
Calibrated airspeed is best described as indicated airspeed corrected for
Answer: installation and instrument error.
A propeller rotating clockwise as seen from the rear, creates a spiraling slipstream. The spiraling slipstream, along with torque effect, tends to rotate the airplane to the
Answer: left around the vertical axis, and to the right around the longitudinal axis.
The pilot controls the air/fuel ratio with the
Answer: mixture control.
An aircraft which is equipped with an Electronic Flight Display (EFD) can
Answer: offer new capabilities and simplify the basic flying task.
The horizontal dashed line from point C to point E represents the
Answer: positive limit load factor.
The uncontrolled firing of the fuel/air charge in advance of normal spark ignition is known as
Answer: preignition.
The mixture control can be adjusted, which
Answer: prevents the fuel/air combination from becoming too rich at higher altitudes.
A detuning of engine crankshaft counterweights is a source of overstress that may be caused by
Answer: rapid opening and closing of the throttle.
Propeller efficiency is the
Answer: ratio of thrust horsepower to brake horsepower.
Unless adjusted, the fuel/air mixture becomes richer with an increase in altitude because the amount of fuel
Answer: remains constant while the density of air decreases.
Before shutdown, while at idle, the ignition key is momentarily turned OFF. The engine continues to run with no interruption; this
Answer: should not normally happen. Indicates a magneto not grounding in OFF position.
To develop maximum power and thrust, a constant-speed propeller should be set to a blade angle that will produce a
Answer: small angle of attack and high RPM
For takeoff, the blade angle of a controllable-pitch propeller should be set at a
Answer: small angle of attack and high RPM.
For internal cooling, reciprocating aircraft engines are especially dependent on
Answer: the circulation of lubricating oil.
Detonation may occur at high-power settings when
Answer: the fuel mixture ignites instantaneously instead of burning progressively and evenly.
The best power mixture is that fuel/air ratio at which
Answer: the most power can be obtained for any given throttle setting.
An abnormally high engine oil temperature indication may be caused by
Answer: the oil level being too low.
Detonation occurs in a reciprocating aircraft engine when
Answer: the unburned fuel/air charge in the cylinders is subjected to instantaneous combustion.
The vertical line from point E to point F is represented on the airspeed indicator by the
Answer: upper limit of the yellow arc.
When referring to a constant speed propeller, the pitch setting is
Answer: varied in flight by a governor maintaining constant RPM despite varying air loads.
Leaving the carburetor heat on during takeoff
Answer: will increase the ground roll.
Q-13 An engine failure on the DA42-VI represents a loss of 50 percent of power available. Approximately, how much climb performance is lost, in the DA42-VI, with an engine failure at sea level?
Approximately 80 to 90 percent
What effect would a change in ambient temperature or air density have on gas-turbine- engine performance?
As temperature increases, thrust decreases
Q-06 Select all the following that increase Vmc in a conventional twin engine airplane: (Select ALL that apply.)
Banking toward the inoperative engine, In ground effect, Windmilling Propeller
Q-16This question if a give-away question (we hope).The type of the airplane and the name he personally gave the airplane that Chuck Yeager flew to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 is:
Bell X-1; Glamorous Glennis (named after his wife)
Q-09 What speed is represented by a blue radial marking in the airspeed indicator of a multiengine airplane?
Best single-engine rate of climb speed.
Q-14 Select all of the following penalties for loss of an engine. (Select ALL that apply.)
Control, Performance
Q-03 In multiengine airplanes with normally aspirated engines, as density altitude increases, Vmc:
Decreases
As you walk out on the ramp your CFI asks you to define the term critical engine. You reply that the critical engine is the ___.
Failed engine that most adversely affects the airplane's performance
As you sit in the flight school lobby, you overhear another pilot stating that Vmc is always encountered at the published Vmc speed, which is indicated by the red radial line.
False: Some conditions may produce higher or lower Vmc speeds than the red radial line indicates
Q-15 The manufacturer determines Vmc with which of the following conditions (Select the TWO answers that apply)
Flaps in the takeoff position, Most unfavorable center of gravity location
Q-04 What is zero sideslip?
Flying the aircraft with the longitudinal axis parallel to the relative wind
Q-01 Which of the following factors lower Vmc?
Increasing weight and a forward CG
Which statement is true concerning the effect of the application of carburetor heat?
It enriches the fuel/air mixture.
Working on your multi-engine rating in a Piper Seminole, you are completing one last stage check before your checkride. Your CFI asks about Vmc and Vsse. You should explain that Vmc is the ___ and Vsse is the ___.
Minimum control airspeed one engine inoperative; minimum safe speed intentional engine failure
Q-11 Vmc can be defined as
Minimum control speed with the critical engine inoperative
Which of the following are typically used to reliably identify and verify a failed engine in flight before feathering the prop? (Check all that apply)
Note the direction the airplane is rolling/yawing. Input of the rudder pedals used to keep directional control Direction the airplane is rolling/yawing
Which of the following conditions increases Vmc?
Retracting the landing gear
Q-08 The point at which a twin aircraft can climb only 50 FPM with one-engine inoperative is called the
Single-Engine Service ceiling
Q-08 The point at which a twin aircraft can climb only 50 FPM with one-engine inoperative is called the:
Single-Engine Service ceiling
Zero sideslip keeps the aircraft flying straight, reduces drag, increases maximum climb performance and reduces Vmc.
TRUE
Before departure, you should compare density altitude with which of these?
The airplane's single-engine service ceiling
Q-10 The airspeed indicator on the DA42-VI is marked with two red radial lines. These lines indicate
Vmc and Vne
Q-07 The speed which will attain the highest altitude in the shortest amount of distance with one engine inoperative is
Vxse
Which of these critical multi-engine V-speeds is the best single-engine rate of climb airspeed?
Vyse
True airspeed is best described as calibrated airspeed corrected for
altitude and nonstandard temperature.
If the ground wire between the magneto and the ignition switch becomes disconnected, the engine
could accidentally start if the propeller is moved with fuel in the cylinder.
Maximum structural cruising speed is the maximum speed at which an airplane can be operated during
normal operations.
The reason for variations in geometric pitch (twisting) along a propeller blade is that it
permits a relatively constant angle of attack along its length when in cruising flight.
Detonation can be caused by
using a lower grade of fuel than recommended.
Fuel/air ratio is the ratio between the
weight of fuel and weight of air entering the cylinder.
