30. What is it called when you navigate by sight or with the aid of a map?

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Pilot Perspective
Visual Navigation
Pilotage
Fly by Sight

31. Refer to the picture above. What is the heading from pt. A to pt. B?
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115 degress
65 degress
180 degrees
295 degrees
32. What is the true course for a compass heading of 240 degrees and a magnetic declination of 4 degrees E
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235 degrees
200 degrees
236 degrees
244 degrees
33. What are the three main types of powerplants?
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Nuclear, solar, gas
Conventional, optional, terrific
Turbine, turbo-prop, reciprocating
Reciprocating, gyrating, spinning
34. Turbine engines have pistons
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True
False
35. If an engine has a compression ratio of 8:1, how much would the final volume be in terms of a percentage of the starting volume when the air/fuel mixture is fully compressed at the top of the compression stroke? (hint: percentage must be less (way less) than 100 and it is found using the ratio above)
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10 %
15%
12.5%
25%
Airplane Instrument Six Pack Cluster

36. Refer to image above. What speed is the airspeed indicator showing? be precise.

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87 knots
100 knots
93 mph
93 knots
37. Refer to image above. What altitude are we at?
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200
20,000
2,000
On the ground
38. Refer to image above. What rate are we climbing at?
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10 fpm
100 fpm
1,000 fpm
1,000 fathoms per minute
39. ATC has issued a clearance to you to descend from 12,000 to 5,000 feet. If your airplane is capable of descending at 500 feet per minute, how long will it take you to reach your assigned altitude?

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25 minutes
30 seconds
7 hours
14 minutes
40. What is the name of the aircraft control surface that controls pitch?
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Horizontal Stabilizer
Elevator
Flaperon
Up/Down actuator
41. What is the name of the aircraft control surface that controls roll?
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Flaperon
Roll Control
Aileron
Vertical Stabilizer
42. What are the two main colors an airport beacon emits for a civilian airport?

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White and blue
Green and white
Red, white and blue
Red and white
43. What is it called when you navigate using a compass and calculating and measuring navigational data?
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Pilot Perspective
Visual Navigation
Pilotage
Dead Reckoning
44. What does VOR stand for?
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Very Outrageous Ranger
Vector Orienting Receiver
Velocity Orbiting Receiver
Very High Frequency Omni Range

45. Refer to the picture above. What is the heading from pt. B to pt. A?
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115 degrees
295 degrees
65 degrees
300 degrees
46. What is lb.ft.3/ft.2? (this reads pound-feet cubed/feet squared). Check all that apply if appropriate.

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lb./ft.
lb.-ft.
torque
correct answer not present
For 47.

47. Name That Plane!
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Beechcraft Bonanza
Piper Cherokee
Cessna Skyhawk
Beechcraft Barron
48. What is the true course for a compass heading of 120 degrees and a magnetic declination of 8 degrees W
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112 degrees
128 degrees
114 degrees
118 degrees
VOR Instrument for 49.

49. Refer to picture above. What is the VOR indicating?
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254 radial, from
254 radial to
074 radial to
074 radial from
50. Which of Newton's Laws of Motion do rockets primarily operate on?
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1st law
2nd law
3rd law
None.
51. Do rockets carry their own source of oxygen?
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Yes
No
Maybe
52. What is the name of the program that had the goal of landing astronauts on the moon?
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Gemini
Mercury
Zeus
Apollo
53. How close is the nearest star to earth?
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4 light-years
4 million miles
4 million light-years
40 light-years
For 54.

54. Name That Plane!
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A. T-34 Turbo Mentor
B. The Navy Plane
C. The Cool Plane
D. T-38 Talon
For 55.

55. Name That Plane!
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A. F-117 Nighthawk
B. P-47 Thunderbolt
C. A WWII bomber
D. TF-51D Mustang
For 56.

56. Name That Plane!
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A. Cessna 182
B. Cessna 206
C. Cessna 172
D. P-51 Mustang
57. What is the simple definition of a drone?
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A flying robot
An Android
An Apple iPhone
A low amplitude, constant frequency noise
58. What does autonomous mean?
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Able to operate independently
Automatic
Boring
Robotic
59. What group was Charles McGee a part of?
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US Army Air Corps
US Air Force
Tuskegee Airmen
US military
All of the above

1 answer

Correct! Charles McGee was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, which was a group of African American military pilots who fought in World War II.