Archives: Theory Courses

quiz me on – Atmosphere

What conditions produce the highest rates of evaporation?
Warm air, dry, low pressure
When a change of state from Vapor to liquid takes place, the process is called?
Condensation
When changing ice to liquid water, is latent heat required or released?
Required

( from a question pool of 43 )

quiz me on – PPL MET

When the weather report states the sky is covered by 8 oktas , the cloud is said to be?
OVC
When the weather report states the sky is covered by 5-7 oktas , the cloud is said to be?
BKN
How many oktas cover the sky when the reported weather reads BKN ?
5-7 oktas

( from a question pool of 9 )

quiz me on – VFR planning, procedures and GPS

What causes receiver error?
Satellite not correctly matching pseudo-random code with that of the satellite
What results from water vapor in the tropopause slowing down the satellite signals, which cause ranging errors?
Tropospheric Propagation Effect
What causes Multi path error?
Satellite signals arriving at the receiver from different directions and different times

( from a question pool of 8 )

quiz me on – Altimetry

AGL is
height above ground level
A Position line is
a line which an aircraft is known to be on at a particular time
Altitude is
the vertical distance of a level, a point, or an object considered as a point measured from mean sea level

( from a question pool of 25 )

quiz me on -Speed and Position

You are steering 280? magnetic and the variation is 4? west, what will be your true heading?
276? T
Ground speed (GS) is
The speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground, measured in knots
the indicated airspeed corrected for instrument errors, position error and installation errors
Calibrated airspeed (CAS) is

( from a question pool of 36 )

quiz me on – Direction on the earth

A line joining places of equal variation is called?
Isogonal
Magnetic bearing is
the direction from us to another object - expressed as Magnetic bearing
Magnetic variation is
the difference between True North and Magnetic North at a location

( from a question pool of 31 )

quiz me on – ATC Lights

ATC light signals to an Aircraft on the Ground -Cleared to take off
Steady green
ATC light signals to an Aircraft on the Ground -Cleared to taxi
Series of green flashes
ATC light signals to an Aircraft in Flight -Series of red flashes
Aerodrome unsafe, do not land

( from a question pool of 24 )

quiz me on – PPLNAV

Under what condition is indicated altitude the same as true altitude?
When at 10,000 feet AMSL with the altimeter set at 1013hPa.
During a night flight, you observe steady red and green lights ahead and at the same altitude. What is the general direction of movement of the other aircraft?
The other aircraft is flying towards or away from you.
Under what condition is pressure altitude and density altitude the same value?
At standard temperature.

( from a question pool of 18 )

quiz me on – Radio check and Speechless

Speechless technique using unmodulated - YES or AFFIRMATIVE
activate button once
Q: You have been asked for a Radio check, Perfectly Readable is the readability Scale of?
5
Q: You have been asked for a Radio check, Readable is the readability Scale of?
4

( from a question pool of 21 )

quiz me on – ELT

What frequency/s does an ELT transmit on?

121.5 and 406MHz

Why must you not turn the ELT off (to ARM) after an emergency activation?
May interfere with search procedures

When may you test your ELT?

First 5 minutes after the hour 


( from a question pool of 6 )