AVweb Quiz #167: Stand By

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Jan. 2, 2012

Interactive Quiz #167:
Stand By

Operating out of the same airports leads to familiarity, which can breed complacency. That's when you're likely to encounter something that's a little off your grid. Help us find our way back by acing 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. Heading out quite early one morning, you notice this NOTAM on DUATS: Omaha NE (Eppley Airfield) [OMA]: Taxiway all taxiways FICON 1/4 in snow / ICE. Sounds as though this FICON thing could be important, so tell us: What does FICON mean?
a. Field Condition
b. Field Inspection Central Operations
c. Field Inspection Control
d. Flow In-Trail Control

2. Stand by to stand by: ADS-B is really, truly, probably on its way, if not already in your cockpit. This advanced, NexGen system is poised (in some minds) to revamp ATC as we've known it for decades. Meanwhile, as the FAA figures out what to do with ADS-B, suppose you explain that ADS-B means:
a. Automated Dependent Surveillance -- Bravo
b. Automatic Dependent Surveillance -- Bravo
c. Advanced Dependent Surveillance -- Broadcast
d. Automatic Dependent Surveillance -- Broadcast

3. Don't run out yet to purchase your ADS-B box. (Why pay full retail when they'll be on eBay in a month at half price?) The NAS (National Airspace System) still recognizes your VOR, GPS and Visa card. So far, ATC doesn't charge for its services, so put away the Visa card and identify which options are available to the pilot when the control tower says, "Cleared for the option." (Choose the best answer.)
a. Full-stop landing
b. Touch-and-go
c. Stop-and-go
d. All of the above and more

4. Practice instrument approaches are easy to get and you don't have to be instrument-rated to participate. A VFR Private pilot "under the hood" with a VFR Private pilot acting as safety pilot (see FAR 91.109 for details) is permitted to execute an instrument approach procedure with ATC authorization in VFR conditions. Have fun and shoot an ILS to minimums, doing it all VFR. What must ATC tell a pilot before issuing a VFR practice-approach clearance?
a. "Maintain VFR"
b. "Alternate missed approach instructions are ..."
c. "In the event of lost two-way radio communications ..."
d. "Unable"

5. Scenario: You're operating VFR in clear skies and request a VFR practice approach to an airport without an operating control tower, located inside Class G airspace. After ATC clears you for the VFR practice approach and tells you "Change to advisory frequency approved," it's up to you to report your position on CTAF: "Ailerona traffic, Bonanza 8763S, SLABO inbound, VOR 13, touch-and-go, runway 13 ..." Even though you're not on an IFR clearance, you do have right of way over other VFR traffic in the pattern.
a. True
b. False

6. Have some fun already. Consider this flight maneuver from the Pilot/Controller Glossary: "A practice approach by a jet aircraft (normally military) at idle thrust to a runway. The approach may start at a runway (high key) and may continue on a relatively high and wide downwind leg with a continuous turn to final. It terminates in landing or low approach." What is this practice maneuver commonly called?
a. Simulated flameout
b. Overhead approach
c. Either a or b
d. Awesome, dude!

7. Usually, the true fun in flight is getting safely from Point A to Point Z with a little ATC help. Here's a definition from the Pilot/Controller Glossary: "The observation of the progress of radar identified aircraft, whose primary navigation is being provided by the pilot, wherein the controller retains and correlates the aircraft identity with the appropriate target or target symbol displayed on the radar scope." What is this service called?
a. Radar contact
b. Radar flight-following
c. Radar vectors
d. Radar love

8. Let's pull back the ATC curtain to see what those radar controllers are up to. When a radar target being worked by one controller is about to pass into another controller's assigned airspace, a radar hand-off is initiated. The pilot is then told to contact the next controller. When the radar target appears it will only slice through a small portion of another controller's airspace, there's no sense making a hand-off, so the controller working the target informs the next controller of the traffic by performing a radar:
a. Monitor
b. Alert
c. Point-out
d. Hand-over

9. When ATC asks a pilot to "Squawk standby," the pilot is expected to:
a. Turn the transponder OFF and then ON.
b. Press the Ident button.
c. Change the transponder from ALT or ON to STBY (standby) .
d. Squawk 1200.

10. When a radar air traffic controller asks you to "Squawk 0324" after you've made your initial call requesting radar service, you should set the transponder to 0324 and then press and hold the Ident button until the controller says, "Radar contact."
a. True
b. False

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Interactive Quiz #167:Stand By

Interactive Quiz #167:
Stand By