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Feb. 7, 2011

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Interactive Quiz #156:
What Next?

Successful aviating involves more than just doing the right thing. Aeronautical nirvana is achieved when you also know the proper sequence of events. How well you can predict the future will determine your quiz score.

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. The answers are assumed to apply within the United States unless otherwise noted.

1. Here's the scenario: You've flown halfway across the country without a hitch. The weather is perfect, runways dry, and the Control Tower says in the nicest voice possible, "Runway 33, cleared to land." Your landing is smooth, after which you slow to taxi speed. If you receive no further instructions from the Tower, the controller expects you to:
a. Exit the runway at the first available taxiway.
b. Roll to the end and exit the runway.
c. Stop on the runway and await further instructions.
d. Stop on the runway and ask Tower for further instructions.
2. Same scenario as the previous question, only now as you slow to taxi speed, the first available turn takes you onto intersecting Runway 22, which doesn't seem to be in use. Without ATC instructions, you should exit onto Runway 22 without delay and await further instructions.
a. True
b. False
3. It's time to depart. You've taxied to Runway 33 and told Tower that you're ready to depart. Tower says, "Runway 33, line up and wait." You acknowledge the instruction and taxi onto the runway, line up on the centerline with your back to the final approach course, and wait ... and wait ... and golly, the radio is amazingly silent. Looking toward the Control Tower, you see a flashing red light from the Tower. You should:
a. Continue waiting.
b. Depart.
c. Taxi clear of the runway.
d. Line up straighter.
4. You're operating at an airport with a control tower and tune in the Automatic Terminal Information System (ATIS). Fill in the blank in this ATIS sequence: Airport/facility name, phonetic letter code, time of weather sequence (UTC), weather information consisting of wind direction and velocity, visibility, obstructions to vision, present weather, sky condition, temperature, dew point, (_____), a density altitude advisory when appropriate and other pertinent remarks included in the official weather observation.
a. Altimeter
b. ATIS date
c. Runway in use
d. Instrument/visual approach in use
5. The ceiling/sky condition, visibility, and obstructions to vision may be omitted from the ATIS if the ceiling is above (_____) feet and the visibility is more than (_____) miles.
a. 1000, 3
b. 1500, 5
c. 5000, 5
d. When a controller feels like it
6. When issuing IFR holding instructions, controllers should stick to an approved format. The proper holding instructions sequence is (in part):
a. Name of fix/waypoint, direction of holding from the fix/waypoint, radial, course, bearing, track, azimuth, airway or route on which the aircraft is to hold, leg length, and inseam
b. Direction of holding from the fix/waypoint, leg length, name of fix/waypoint, radial, course, bearing, track, azimuth, airway or route on which the aircraft is to hold
c. Name of fix/waypoint, direction of holding from the fix/waypoint, radial, course, bearing, track, azimuth, airway or route on which the aircraft is to hold, left/right-hand pattern
d. Direction of holding from the fix/waypoint, name of fix/waypoint, radial, course, bearing, track, azimuth, airway or route on which the aircraft is to hold, leg length
7. ATC radar does not cover the entire planet. Imagine that you're en route IFR when Center says, "Radar contact lost." Your IFR flight plan is not cancelled. Instead, you are now expected to make mandatory position reports. The proper sequence for these reports is:
a. Call sign, position, time, altitude, ETA and name of next reporting point, name of the next succeeding reporting point, remarks
b. Call sign, time, position, altitude, ETA and name of next reporting point, name of the next succeeding reporting point, remarks
c. Call sign, position, altitude, time, ETA and name of next reporting point, name of the next succeeding reporting point, remarks
d. Position, call sign, time, altitude, ETA and name of next reporting point, name of the next succeeding reporting point, remarks
8. Complete this statement: When executing an instrument approach procedure to an airport not served by a control tower, what does the approach controller not provide? (Pick the best answer.)
a. Approach sequence
b. Landing sequence
c. Traffic information
d. Radar service
9. OK, forget ATC, and let's get back to piston-flying basics. When you yell, "Clear prop!" and hit the airplane's starter button, avgas mixes with air, is compressed and burnt. What comes next in this four-stroke sequence: intake, compression, power, (_____)?
a. Rinse
b. Excuse
c. Exhaust
d. Stroke
10. Here's an aviation sequence that all night-flying pilots should know or at least appreciate. Phases of the moon are:
a. Full, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, new moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent
b. New, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing half, full moon, waning half, last quarter, waning crescent
c. New, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbons, blue moon, waning gibbons, last quarter, waning crescent
d. New, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent

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