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Q1. Given: FL350, Mach 0.80, OAT -55(C), calculate values for TAS and local speed of sound?
Correct answer is – 461 kt, LSS 576 kt
Q2. The wind velocity is 359/25. An aircraft is heading 180 at TAS of 198 knots. (All directions are True). What is its track and ground speed?
Correct answer is – 180, 223
Q3. G/S = 240 knots, distance to go = 500 NM. What is time to go? *
Correct answer is – 2h 05 m
Q4. Given: True Hdg 145°, TAS 240 kt, True Track 150°, G/S 210 kt, calculate the W/V.
Correct answer is – 115/35
Q5. TAS = 240 knots. Track is 180°(T). The relative bearing from an NDB is 315(R) at 1410. At 1420 the bearing has changed to 270(R). What is your distance from the NDB at 1420?
Correct answer is – 40 NM
Q6. Fuel flow per hr is 22 US.gal, total fuel on board is 83 imp.gal. What is the endurance?
Correct answer is – 4 hr 32 min
Q7. Airfield elevation is 1000 feet. The QNH is 988. Use 27 feet per hectopascal. What is pressure altitude?
Correct answer is – 1675 feet
Q8. Track = 090°(T), TAS = 460 knots, W/V = 360°(T) / 100, Variation = 12°E, Deviation = -2. What is compass heading and ground speed?
Correct answer is – 067° 450 knots
Q9. You plan to take off from Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia, elevation 6500 ft. The ambient temperature is +25°C. What is your density altitude?
Correct answer is – 9500 ft
Q10. An aircraft is maintaining a 5.2% gradient on a flat terrain. Its height at 7 NM from the runway is approximately.
Correct answer is – 2210 feet
Q11. Given: IAS 120 knots, FL80, OAT +20°C. What is the TAS? *
Correct answer is – 141 kt
Q12. You plan to land on RWY 14. The met forecast wind velocity is 110/30. Variation is 30°W. What crosswind do you expect?
Correct answer is – 0 kt
Q13. The pressure alt is 29 000 feet and the SAT is -55°C. What is density altitude?
Correct answer is – 27 500 feet
Q14. Given: TAS 140 kt, heading 005°(T), W/V 265/25, calculate the drift and ground speed.
Correct answer is – 10R – 146 kt
Q15. Given: TAS = 375 Ttk=335(T) W/V=340(T)/50 What is heading and ground speed?
Correct answer is – 336(T) 326
Q16. You are flying at a True Mach No. of .72 in a SAT of -45°C. At 1000 hours you are 100 NM from the CPT DME and your ETA at CPT is 1012. ATC ask you to slow down to be at CPT at 1016. What should your new Mach No be if you reduce speed at 100 NM to go?
Correct answer is – .51
Q17. You plan to fly a track (course) of 348°(T), Drift is 17° port, Variation is 20°W. Deviation is 4°E. What compass heading should you fly?
Correct answer is – 033°
Q18. Given: TAS 200 kt, Track 110°(T), W/V 015/40, calculate heading (°T) and ground speed.
Correct answer is – 099° – 200 kt
Q19. Pressure altitude is 27,000 feet, OAT = -35°C, Mach No. = 0.45, W/V = 270/85, Track = 200°(T). What is drift and ground speed?
Correct answer is – 17L / 228 knots
Q20. What is the effect on the Mach number and TAS in an aircraft that is climbing with constant CAS?
Correct answer is – Mach number increases; TAS increases
Q21. Given Distance X to Y = 30 NM, Y to Z = 20 NM, The Navigation log reads ATA X is 1420, ETA Y is 1447, ATA Y is 1450. What is revised ETA Z? *
Correct answer is – 1510
Q22. Required course 045°(T), W/V = 190°(T)/30, FL=55@ISA, Variation = 15°E. CAS = 120 knots. What is magnetic heading and G/S?
Correct answer is – 037°(M) 154
Q23. Given: True Track = 352 Variation = 11W Deviation = 5 Drift = 8R What is heading (C)?
Correct answer is – 000°(C)
Q24. You are heading 345°(M), the variation is 20°E, and you take a radar bearing of 30° left of the nose from an island. What bearing do you plot from the island?
Correct answer is – 155°(T)
Q25. Heading is 156°(T), TAS is 320 knots, W/V is 130/45 and the Variation is 10°W. What is your magnetic track?
Correct answer is – 170
Q26. Track = 090°(T), TAS = 460 knots, W/V = 360°(T) / 100, Variation = 10°E, Deviation = -2. What is compass heading and ground speed?
Correct answer is – 069° – 450 kt
Q27. You are flying at 400 kt TAS. Indicated temperature -50°C. What is your COAT?
Correct answer is – -67°C
Q28. You are flying at FL330 at Mach No. 0.9. Ambient temperature is ISA +15. What is your TAS?
Correct answer is – 540 knots
Q29. You leave A to fly to B, 475 NM away, at 1000 hours. Your ETA at B is 1130. At 1040, you are 190 NM from A. What ground speed is required to arrive on time at B?
Correct answer is – 342 knots
Q30. Given: Track 198°, Heading 184°, TAS 427 kt and GS 453 kt, what are the W/V and Drift Angle?
Correct answer is – 087°/109 kt and 14°S
Q31. You leave A to fly to B, 475 NM away, at 1000 hours. Your ETA at B is 1130. At 1040, you are 190 NM from A. What ground speed is required to arrive on time at B?
Correct answer is – 342 knots
Q32. A pilot receives the following signals from a VOR DME station. Radial = 180 +/- 1°, distance = 200 NM What is the approximate maximum error?
Correct answer is – +/- 3.5 NM
Q33. Heading is 156°(T), TAS is 320 knots, W/V 130/45. What is your true track?
Correct answer is – 160
Q34. An ICAO nautical mile is defined as. *
Correct answer is – 1852 metres
Q35. Course 040°(T), TAS 120 kt, wind speed = 30 knots. From which direction will the wind give the greatest drift?
Correct answer is – 240°(T)
Q36. An aircraft leaves at 0900UTC on a 250 NM journey with a planned ground speed of 115 knots. After 74 NM the aircraft is 1.5 minutes behind the planned schedule. What is the revised ETA at the destination?
Correct answer is – 1115
Q37. The wind velocity is 359/25. An aircraft is heading 180°(T) at a TAS of 198 knots. (All directions are True). What is its track and ground speed?
Correct answer is – 180° – 223 kt
Q38. You are flying from A to B, planned track 245°(M), distance 225 NM. Your ground speed is 180 knots. After 15 minutes flying, you fix your position as 3 NM left of planned track. Which of the following statements is correct?
Correct answer is – You should turn 5 right to go direct to B
Q39. Given: IAS 120 kt FL80 OAT +20(C) What is the TAS? *
Correct answer is – 141 kt
Q40. You are on a 3-degree glide slope which passes over the runway threshold at 50 feet. Your DME range is 25 NM from the threshold. What is your height above the runway threshold elevation? (Use the 1 in 60 rule and 6000 feet = 1 nautical mile).
Correct answer is – 7550 feet
Q41. Given: True Track = 352°(T) Variation = 11°W Deviation = 5° Drift = 10°R What is heading (C)?
Correct answer is – 358°(C)
Q42. Your pressure altitude is FL55, the QNH is 998, and the SAT is +30(C). What is density altitude?
Correct answer is – 8620 feet
Q43. An aircraft is climbing at a constant CAS in ISA conditions. What will be the effect on TAS and Mach No.?
Correct answer is – Both increase
Q44. SAT = +35°C. Pressure alt (corrected for barometric error) = 5000 feet. What is true alt?
Correct answer is – 5550 feet
Q45. Given: Runway direction 083°(M) Surface W/V 045/35 kt. Calculate the effective headwind component.
Correct answer is – 29 kt
Q46. A useful method of a pilot resolving, on a visual flight, any uncertainty in the aircraft’s position is to maintain visual contact with the ground and:
Correct answer is – set heading towards a line feature such as a coastline, river or motorway
Q47. ISA Dev = +30°C, Pressure alt = 5000 feet. What is true alt? *
Correct answer is – 5600 feet
Q48. On a particular take-off, you can accept up to 10 knots tailwind. The runway QDM is 047, the variation is 17°E and the ATIS gives the wind direction as 210. What is the maximum wind strength you can accept?
Correct answer is – 11 knots
Q49. At 1000 hours an aircraft is on the 310 radial from a VOR/DME, at 40 nautical miles range. At 1015 the radial and range are 040/40 NM. What is the aircraft’s track and ground speed?
Correct answer is – 085° / 226 knots
Q50. Pressure Altitude is 28 000 feet, OAT = -45°C, Mach No = 0.46, W/V = 270/85, Track = 200°(T). What is the drift and groundspeed?
Correct answer is – 17L / 228 knots