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April 4, 2011

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Interactive Quiz #158:
We Need More Pilots

As the pilot population declines, the Department of Transportation might consider listing Pilotus americanus on the endangered species list. Reverse this decline by recruiting new students who will marvel at your score on this quiz.

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. Unless the goal is a Sport pilot certificate, the student pilot (SEL airplane) will need a medical certificate. For guidance, we refer to FAR 61.23, which says, in part, that if you hold a Third-Class medical certificate and were "under age 40" when you received the medical certificate, then your certificate expires at the end of the last day of the (____) month after the month of the date of examination shown on the medical certificate. (Fill in the blank.)
a. 12th
b. 24th
c. 36th
d. 60th
2. In order to give flight instruction to a student pilot in a single-engine, land (SEL) airplane, a Certificated Flight Instructor (CFI) must hold a Commercial pilot certificate with an Instrument rating and must hold at least a Third-Class medical certificate when acting as pilot-in-command.
a. True
b. False; a CFI must hold at least a Second-Class medical certificate.
3. Maybe you don't want to become an airline pilot. Maybe you don't even want to fly airplanes but want to cruise across the countryside at extremely slow speeds. Consider getting a Sport Pilot certificate in a powered parachute -- you know, those things that look like a shopping cart suspended beneath a parachute and pushed along at 30 knots by a Briggs & Stratton engine. How many total hours of flight time must an applicant have logged when applying for a Sport pilot certificate in a powered parachute?
a. 12
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40
4. The Sport pilot certificate for powered-parachute-only will have what category and class printed on the pilot's certificate?
a. Sport, powered flex wing
b. Sport, powered parachute
c. Sport, fixed wing
d. None of the above
5. According to FAR 61.89, a student pilot flying solo in an SEL airplane inside Class G airspace needs (_____) flight visibility during daylight hours or (_____) at night. (Fill in the blanks.)
a. 1 statute mile, 3 statute miles
b. 1 nautical mile, 3 nautical miles
c. 3 statute miles, 5 statute miles
d. 3 nautical miles, 5 nautical miles
e. Students can't fly solo at night.
6. Prior to being authorized for solo flight, a student pilot must satisfactorily complete an aeronautical knowledge test.
a. True
b. False
7. Student pilots are permitted to operate in Class B and C airspace with proper training (FAR 61.94). Aircraft are required to have operating transponders in Class B and C airspace, but if ATC radar fails ("Radar contact lost"), how do Class B and C airspace change? (Pick the best scenario.)
a. Class B becomes Class C.
b. Class C becomes Class D.
c. Class B and C remain unchanged.
d. Both a and b
8. A student pilot flying solo is PIC (pilot-in-command) and is responsible for making sure the aircraft is airworthy or "in condition for safe flight" (FAR 91.7). If equipped with a transponder, the transponder needs to be tested and inspected ...
a. Prior to each flight
b. Within the preceding 12 calendar months
c. Within the preceding 24 calendar months
d. Within the preceding 36 calendar months
9. Most small, non-turbine, general-aviation aircraft are required to have an annual inspection. Additionally, according to FAR 91.409, "... No person may give flight instruction for hire in an aircraft which that person provides, unless within the preceding (_____) hours of time in service the aircraft has received an annual or (_____) inspection and been approved for return to service." (Fill in the blanks.)
a. 50, 50-hour
b. 100, 100-hour
c. 100, field
d. 50, 100-field
10. It all comes down to the checkride, or what the FARs call the "Practical Test." When a student pilot applying for a Private pilot (SEL) certificate takes the checkride in a Cessna 172, who is the PIC during the ride?
a. Applicant (the student pilot)
b. Examiner
c. Both applicant and examiner
d. FAA-designated examiner

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