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quiz me on – PPL Law

A person may carry properly packaged, labelled and stored dangerous goods providing:
The only passengers carried are associated with the dangerous goods
May a person performing an operational flight check (maintenance flight) carry any other person on the aircraft?
Yes, but only if that person is required to perform an essential function that is associated with the flight check
Is an ATC clearance required to fly through a VFR Transit Lane and may any type of aircraft use such a lane?
A clearance is not required, any type of aircraft may fly through it

( from a question pool of 180 )

quiz me on – Human Factors

Hyperventilation
is usually due to anxiety or stress
Distant aircraft that are not on a collision path with you will:
Track across your windscreen, or move up or down across your windscreen
The effect you get when you look at a steady distant light at night and it starts to move around erratically is called:
auto kinetic effect

( from a question pool of 110 )

quiz me on – Met Exam 2

What flying conditions are generally associated with unstable air?
Turbulent conditions with good visibility away from precipitation.
How is New Zealand's climate influenced by the oceanic surroundings?
The oceanic surroundings give a high moisture content and small temperature fluctuations throughout the year.
Why is it important to ensure an aircraft has the correct subscale adjustment on their altimeter when using an aerodrome?
So the altimeter shows the correct altitude,

( from a question pool of 62 )

quiz me on – Met Exam 1

What is the layer of air below the tropopause called?
Troposphere.
What will cause the formation of frontal fog? O Precipitation from the cold sector drops into the warm sector. Frontal fog forms if the wind is strong enough.
Frontal fog forms if the wind is light enough.
If the cloud is said to be 1 okta, this is classified as:
FEW.

( from a question pool of 94 )

quiz me on – NZ Climate

With regards to Napier (with the Ruahine ranges to the west) where would you expect the cloud to sit with an Easterly wind?
Over the airport
If you are flying VFR in a small aircraft, traveling North alongside a mountain range, what side would you be better off flying on with regards to turbulence if there was a strong Westerly wind?
West (Windward)
What latitudes does New Zealand sit between?
34 – 47 degrees South

( from a question pool of 13 )

quiz me on – Temperature & heat exchange

When warm air particles rise and warm other air particles, this is called?
Convection
What gas in the atmosphere protects us from Ultraviolet light?
Ozone
Which location has the highest albedo?
Snow field

( from a question pool of 9 )

quiz me on – Inversions Cloud and Precipitation

When flying beneath an inversion, when moisture is readably available, there is an increased risk of?
Carb icing
What is meant by the term coalescence?
Cloud droplets forming together
Clouds are made up of mainly what?
Water

( from a question pool of 14 )

quiz me on – Atmosphere(2)

When changing water vapor to ice, is latent heat required or released?
Released
What is an isobar?
Line of equal pressure
When changing ice to liquid water, is latent heat required or released?
Required

( from a question pool of 28 )