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quiz me on – Atmosphere

What is the dew point?
Temperature the air becomes saturated
Is the pressure laps rate more or less in cold air?
More
When a change of state from Liquid to vapor takes place, the process is called?
Evaporation

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quiz me on – PPL MET

How many oktas cover the sky when the reported weather reads OVC ?
8 oktas
When the weather report states the sky is covered by 3-4 oktas , the cloud is said to be?
SCT

One is 

1

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quiz me on – VFR planning, procedures and GPS

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
What is the ionosphere propagation effect?
Results from charged particles in the atmosphere interfering with satellite signal travel times

( from a question pool of 8 )

quiz me on – Altimetry

the geographical position of an aircraft at a specific time determined by visual reference to features on the ground or by radio navigation aids
A Fix is
Mean Sea Level (MSL) is
an average level for the surface the Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured
Elevation is
height above sea level

( from a question pool of 25 )

quiz me on -Speed and Position

a metric unit of length equal to approximately 1.094 yards or 3.3 feet
A Metre is
When an aircraft flies at 100kts directly into a steady 20kt headwind, its indicated airspeed will be ____ and its ground speed will be ____?
100Kts, 80Kts
the speed of the aircraft relative to the air mass in which it is flying
True airspeed (TAS) is

( from a question pool of 36 )

quiz me on – Direction on the earth

Greenwich (Prime) Meridian is
based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Magnetic variation is
the difference between True North and Magnetic North at a location
True North is
the direction along the Earth's surface towards the geographic North Pole

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quiz me on – ATC Lights

ATC light signals to an Aircraft on the Ground -Stop
Steady red
ATC light signals to an Aircraft on the Ground -Series of green flashes
Cleared to taxi
ATC light signals to an Aircraft in Flight -Return for landing (clearance to land and to taxi will be given in due course)
Series of green flashes

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quiz me on – PPLNAV

How many Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites are required to yield a three dimensional position (latitude, longitude, and altitude) and time solution?
4
What is true altitude?
The vertical distance of the aircraft above sea level.
How many satellites make up the Global Positioning System (GPS)?
24.

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quiz me on – Radio check and Speechless

An aircraft shall acknowledge the receipt of a message not requiring a read back by transmitting?
The aircrafts call sign
Speechless technique using unmodulated - activate button once
YES or AFFIRMATIVE
Q: You have been asked for a Radio check, Your Reply to test transmissions should be as follows: The identification of the station calling The identification of the station replying Information regarding the readability of Readable now and then with the readability Scale of?
2

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quiz me on – ELT

When may you test your ELT?

First 5 minutes after the hour 

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

An ELT can activate itself

True

( from a question pool of 6 )