AVweb Quiz #165: Something For Everyone

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Nov. 7, 2011

Interactive Quiz #165:
Something For Everyone

Whether you're a student anticipating your first solo, a commercial pilot upgrading to turbines or a presidential candidate lost in Iowa, this quiz will tax your ability to identify the truth. (Politicians will be graded on a curve.)

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. One day, when the administrative stars align, pilots might be freed from the Third-class medical certificate. Until then, if you're not flying as a sport pilot, you may need one. If you're under age 40 at the time the third-class medical certificate was issued, it's good for (_____) months. (Please fill in the blank.)
a. 24
b. 48
c. 60
d. 72

2. A certificated flight instructor (CFI), acting as PIC while giving primary, dual, flight instruction, for hire, in a Cessna 172 (airplane SEL, over 1320 pounds max gross weight) to a student pilot, needs what class of medical certificate?
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. Does not need any medical certificate

3. This statement appeared in an aerodrome NOTAM on DUATS (Sept. 18, 2011) for Des Moines, Iowa: "Aerodrome closed due to WIP ..." What does WIP mean as it relates to this NOTAM?
a. Wear Indicator Pin
b. Work In Progress
c. Wing Incidence Phugoid
d. Weirdly Important Person

4. Fill in the blanks in this statement from the Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: "A (_____) relies on an engine-driven air pump or compressor, while a (_____) gets its power from the exhaust stream that runs through a turbine, which in turn spins the compressor."
a. Turbocharger, supercharger
b. Turbobooster, superbooster
c. Superchanger, turbochanger
d. Supercharger, turbocharger

5. What is the term for the maximum altitude at which a turbocharged engine can produce its rated horsepower?
a. Critical altitude
b. Critical engine
c. Absolute altitude
d. Absolut vodka

6. Time to upgrade to turbines by identifying what happens in a turbine engine when, according to the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, there's "an imbalance between the two vector quantities, inlet velocity and compressor rotational speed," and "the compressor blades' angle of attack exceeds the critical angle of attack." This jet experience is called:
a. Flame out
b. Compressor stall
c. Compressor surge
d. Hot start

7. Descend back down into commonly used piston altitudes. According to FAR 91.159 (VFR Cruising Altitudes), when operating VFR in level cruise below 18,000 feet MSL and more than 3000 feet above the surface on a magnetic course of 180 degrees, which altitudes would be appropriate?
a. 3300 feet
b. 4000 feet
c. 5500 feet
d. 6500 feet
e. Depends upon winds aloft

8. According to FAR 91.205 what instruments is not required for single-engine, piston, day, VFR, not-for-hire flight?
a. Oil pressure gauge
b. Magnetic direction indicator
c. Slip-skid indicator
d. Tachometer

9. FAR 91.7 says that the PIC determines if an aircraft is airworthy for flight, despite the fact that the aircraft has a valid airworthiness certificate. According to 91.203(b), you may not operate a civil aircraft unless the airworthiness certificate is:
a. Carried in the cabin or cockpit environment.
b. Displayed at the cabin or cockpit entrance.
c. Displayed to passengers or crew upon request.
d. Displayed along with the aircraft registration at the cabin or cockpit entrance.

10. The Liberty XL2 pictured below has a piston engine with FADEC. Decode FADEC.

a. Fault Alert Digital Engine Control
b. Full Aircraft Digital Engine Computer
c. Full Authority Digital Engine Control
d. Port Authority Digital Engine Control

11. Bonus question: I believe it's time that the General Aviation Party, a.k.a., the GAP (I just made that up), fields its own candidate for president of the United States. Let's face it: Putting an active GA pilot in charge of everything might not be any better than what usually passes for leadership, but a pilot-president would be way cooler. Time to caucus: What certificated GA pilot (preferably living, but that's not a deal-breaker) should be the next president of the United States? In the event of a tie, a spot-landing contest will be held in a 1946 Aeronca Champ on Pennsylvania Avenue. Loser becomes president. Rule: Anyone currently holding elected office, having held elected office or running for office is not eligible.
a. Choose this answer, and then on the results page you'll have the opportunity to cast your write-in vote for pilot-president.
b. Please don't select this answer, even if you don't intend to cast a vote. It is here for technical reasons, so that your final quiz score will be accurate.

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Interactive Quiz #165:Something For Everyone

Interactive Quiz #165:
Something For Everyone