AVweb Quiz #161: Aloha and Cleared For Takeoff

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July 7, 2011

Interactive Quiz #161:
Aloha and Cleared For Takeoff

Navigating the Hawaiian Islands is fairly easy: Look across the water for your island destination and, then, go there. It's like stepping across stones on a koi pond. Navigating tropical regulations takes mastery of 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. Area Forecasts (FA) give you the big weather picture during preflight planning. In Alaska and the conterminous U.S., Area Forecasts (FAs) are prepared (_____) times a day; but in Hawaii, FAs are prepared (_____) times a day and amended as required. (Fill in the blanks.)
a. 1, 2
b. 3, 2
c. 3, 4
d. 4, 2

2. Even in Hawaii, pilots need to consider the possibility of hazardous weather. SIGMETs advise of nonconvective weather that's potentially hazardous to all aircraft. A SIGMET is a scheduled product that is valid for four hours.
a. True
b. False

3. SIGMETs issued in Hawaii or Alaska (that other aviation paradise) warn of, among other things:
a. Tornadoes
b. Lines of thunderstorms
c. Embedded thunderstorms
d. SIGMETs are not issued in Alaska.
e. a, b and c

4. Let's continue our Hawaiian fly-cation, where you may want to file a flight plan across the water between the islands or a DVFR flight plan through the Hawaii ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone). Back on the mainland (Lower 48), a U.S. airport's three-letter domestic station identifier is prefixed with the letter "K" to create its ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) identifier. DSM becomes KDSM. Two letters are prefixed to the station identifiers in Hawaii. What two-letter prefix is used in Hawaii?
a. PH
b. HA
c. PA
d. HH

5. Four things have a big influence on Hawaii's fantastic weather: mountains, moisture, heat and wind. Trade winds generally blow from the east/northeast, carrying wads of moisture through the warm air. IFR conditions caused by cumulus clouds, mountain obscuration and heavy rainfall can be anticipated on which side of the island mountains?
a. Windward
b. Leeward
c. Larboard
d. Starboard

6. Trade winds aren't the only winds in the Hawaiian Islands. Occasionally, the wind shifts from the steady, pleasant easterly trades to a gusty, rainy southwesterly wind that can inflict serious damage on small airplanes and unattended hula skirts. By what name are these southwesterly winds known?
a. Kola winds
b. Kona winds
c. Lanai winds
d. Mariah winds

7. Weather isn't the only thing influencing Hawaiian flight. The FAA hovers above with most of its FARs and airspace classifications in force. What type of airspace is not found over the Hawaiian Islands?
a. Class A
b. Class B
c. Class C
d. Class D

8. Nothing's prettier than a Maui sunset, especially when viewed from an airplane. (OK, copters, too ...) FAR 61.57 (b) applies equally in Hawaii as it does in New Jersey and requires that before carrying passengers at night the PIC must have made at least (_____) takeoffs landings, within the preceding (_____) days, during the period beginning (_____) hour after sunset and ending (_____) hour before sunrise.
a. Three, 60, 1/2, 1/2
b. Three, 90, 1, 1
c. Five, 60, 1, 1
d. Five, 60, 1/2, 1/2

9. Those landings required by 61.57(b) for recent night experience must be made to a full stop in Hawaii if flown in a tailwheel airplane.
a. True
b. False

10. Hey, remember how way back in question #4 we mentioned filing a DVFR flight plan through the Hawaii ADIZ, and then we acted all, like, "Dude, we won't bring that up again"? Well, here it is again. So, Dude, what does DVFR mean?
a. Daytime Visual Flight Rules
b. Domestic Visual Flight Rules
c. Defensive Visual Flight Rules
d. Defense Visual Flight Rules

11. Bonus question for Mainlanders: Which Hawaiian island is known as The Big Island?
a. Oahu
b. Molokai
c. Maui
d. Hawaii
e. Staten

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Interactive Quiz #161: Aloha and Cleared For Takeoff

Interactive Quiz #161:
Aloha and Cleared For Takeoff