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Brainteasers Interactive Quiz #75:
Aerodrome Operations

You can successfully fly hundreds of miles across burning sands, frozen tamarack, and deadly L.A. freeways, but all that Zen-like aero-bliss can turn to grief if you don't understand the operating rules in the airport environment. Have fun navigating the following scenarios.

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the questions as best you can, then click on the "Score my quiz answers" button to see your score and read the explanations. If you don't like your score the first time around, you can change some of your answers and resubmit. To get the most out of this quiz, we suggest you keep trying until you get a perfect score.

NOTE: When more than one answer is true, only the most complete, correct answer will be scored as correct.

1. The unthinkable happens at the beginning of a VFR trip: You're at the end of the runway and several larger aircraft taxi past with the flight crewmembers alternately pointing at you and at their headsets. You think it's some QB secret signal and point at your headset in turn. Completing your run-up, you notice how quiet the tower/ground frequency is. Your radios are dead, and you want to taxi back to the FBO in order to stop payment on the check you just gave the avionics shop for installing your new panel. The control tower flashes you a series of colored light-gun signals. Decode the following lights: Solid red, followed by flashing white, and then flashing green.
a. Stop, Cleared to taxi, Exercise extreme caution.
b. Stop, Return to starting point, Cleared for taxi.
c. Stop, Look, Listen.
d. Stop, Taxi clear of the runway, cleared for taxi.
2. You're alone on a taxiway with only a sleepy tower controller watching. You see a sign (see below). A yellow T on a black background means:
a. Civilian land airport.
b. Military land airport.
c. Heliport.
d. Water airport.
e. Klingon docking station.
5. You land at an airport inside Class D airspace. The tower controller (known in-house as "local control") tells you to "Turn right at the first intersection." No sweat, you think while standing on the brakes and burning up $50 in brake pads. You turn off the runway and see the lines depicted below with the dashed lines facing you. You should:
a. Downwind and below the 767's path.
b. Above the 767's path and touch down before where it touches.
c. Below the 767's path and touch down before where it touches.
d. Above the 767's path and touch down after where it touches.
7. All aircraft produce a wake of some sort from (among other things) vortices that are a byproduct of lift. Generally, the bigger the aircraft, the more powerful the wake turbulence. What aircraft configuration produces the most wake turbulence?
a. Heavy, fast, and clean (in cruise configuration).
b. Heavy, slow, and dirty (in landing configuration with gear down and full flaps).
c. Heavy, slow, and clean (in landing or takeoff configuration but with gear and flaps up).
d. Heavy. Weight is the sole determining factor.
8. At the FBO, you've just paid your ramp handling fee, landing fee, parking fee, security fee, and fee-surcharge fee, and are awaiting the taxi that will charge $75 to take you across the freeway to the Motel 6. While burning your tongue on a complimentary cup of instant coffee, you notice a large, twin-engine airplane preparing for taxi. Several ramp personnel surround the aircraft, and the ramp signalman gestures as shown in the official FAA illustration below. What does that signal mean?
a. Movement areas are runways and taxiways; non-movement areas are everything else.
b. Movement areas are runways; non-movement areas are taxiways.
c. Movement areas are ramps (what non-flyers call the "tarmac") and taxiways; non-movement areas are everything else.
d. Movement areas are active runways; non-movement areas are taxiways and closed or inactive runways.
e. We know you have more money -- empty your pockets.
10. You're operating under Part 91, not for hire, but you are carrying passengers while on an IFR flight plan 90 minutes after official sunset. The weather is reported at your destination to be 1000 feet broken and 3 miles visibility. You're inside Class C airspace, clear of clouds, on final, and cleared to land. Suddenly, the runway lights go out. You can still see the runway in your landing light beam and by the momentary glow of a full moon peeking through the clouds. Regardless, the tower controller must send you around because the runway has no lights.
a. True.
b. False.

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