AVweb Quiz #178: Know Before You Go

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Dec. 3, 2012

Interactive Quiz #178:
Know Before You Go

A wise guy, who never flew, once said it's easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission. Phooey! Life aloft is smoother with pre-planning, so discover how carefree flight becomes when you ace 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. Charity may begin at home, but here it begins with the first question. If you're feeling charitable and want to participate in a fundraising flight for your favorite cause, you can do so without too much FAA oversight. FAR 91.146 covers charitable flights and says that a Private pilot may take donating passengers (cash, not organs) aloft on a charitable or fundraising flight provided the pilot has logged at least (_____) hours of flight time. (Fill in the blank with the best answer.)
a. 100
b. 200
c. 250
d. 500
e. None of the above, because the PIC must hold at least a Commercial pilot certificate

2. Wherever your flight goes, you'll need to know the territory. The easiest way to navigate the airspace alphabet swamp is to file and fly IFR. Classes C and B airspace have many things in common, but which requirement applies to Class B VFR operations but does not apply inside Class C airspace?
a. Class B VFR operations require an ATC clearance.
b. An operable Mode-S transponder is required to operate VFR inside Class B airspace.
c. An operable Mode-A transponder is required to operate VFR inside Class B airspace.
d. An operable Mode-A transponder with Mode-C altitude encoding is required to operate VFR inside Class B airspace.

3. There's nothing aviation administrators love more than a bracing acronym. LAHSO stands for Land and Hold Short Operation, an ATC tool designed to cram more airplanes onto limited runway space. The key to successful LAHSO is pilot/controller cooperation (although good brakes help). When ATC says, "Cleared to land Runway 27, hold short of Runway 36," the pilot is expected to accept or reject that restriction based on the ALD. (Bet you can see this question coming a nautical mile off.) What is ALD?
a. Alternate Landing Distance
b. Acceptable Landing Distance
c. Available Landing Distance
d. A Lousy Decision

4. Where can a pilot find this ALD? (Choose the best answer.)
a. Airport/Facility Directory (A/FD)
b. U.S. Terminal Procedures Publications (TPP)
c. Ask ATC (Air Traffic Control)
d. All of the above

5. Once accepted, a LAHSO restriction (such as, "Cleared to land Runway 36, hold short of Runway 27,") precludes executing a go-around or rejected landing.
a. True
b. False
c. True, unless an emergency exists

6. Here's a LAHSO scenario: You're on an IFR flight plan, headed to Ailerona Muni, an airport with crossing runways (Runways 17/35 and Runways 10/28). The airport lies within Class D airspace from the surface to 2500 feet AGL, but it is late at night and the control tower is closed. The D airspace has magically changed to Class E. The weather is great VFR: clear skies, unlimited visibility, winds calm. All runway and approach lights work. The Approach controller sees radar targets apparently using Runway 17. You are on the ILS approach to Runway 28 for a full-stop landing. In order for ATC (Approach Control) to issue a LAHSO restriction in this scenario, with your instrument approach clearance into Ailerona Muni, the approach controller must:
a. Issue the ALD.
b. Issue the ALD and known traffic.
c. Issue the ALD and known traffic, and switch you to the CTAF prior to the FAF.
d. Be out of his/her headset!

7. This is the last LAHSO question, I promise. In order to utilize LAHSO, there can be no tailwind component, the runway must be free of contaminants (ice, slush, banana peels), but not necessarily dry ... provided the braking action is reported to be at least:
a. Fair
b. Good
c. Excellent
d. Swell

8. As you read this, somewhere in Minnesota a pilot will be sliding off a slick taxiway into a frozen lutefisk patch. Don't let this happen to you -- stay in Florida. But should you venture north of the 30th parallel after Guy Fawkes Day, know your reportable braking action values. Identify those four reportable braking action values.
a. Nil, poor, fair, good
b. Poor, fair, good, excellent
c. Poor, fair, goodish, excellent
d. Nil, nada, nope, yikes!

9. Complete this statement: According to the ATC manual (7110.65), the control tower inserts the statement, "Braking action advisories are in effect," on the ATIS whenever ... (Choose most complete answer, and don't think any choice to be too dumb.)
a. They feel like it.
b. Braking reports of nil have been received.
c. Braking reports of nil or poor have been received.
d. Braking reports of nil or poor have been received or conditions are deteriorating or rapidly changing.

10. Here's a variation on the hold-short theme: Tower controllers shall provide a three-minute wake-turbulence interval for a small aircraft (12,500 pounds or less, maximum certificate takeoff weight) when departing from an intersection behind a large aircraft. That three-minute delay is not required if the intersection is within (_____) feet from the departure point of the preceding aircraft and both aircraft are taking off in the same direction. (Fill in the blank.)
a. 300
b. 500
c. 1000
d. 1250

11. Bonus Survey Question: What is the dumbest thing you've encountered in aviation? Examples may include but are not limited to: TSA, TFR, T-tailed Piper singles, the name Airbus, Class 3 medicals, and the guy who writes this quiz. Tell your fellow readers what irritating aviation quirk gets you shouting your barbaric yawp across the hangar tops to the world: "I'm mad as heck, and I'm not going to take (fill in the blank) anymore!" Keep it clean and not too personal, meaning nothing libelous, please. For example, if your hangar neighbor, Ed Wingnut, runs his engine with no concern about what's behind him, then leave out his name while exposing the offense. Leave off your own name, too, if it might compromise your Witness Protection status. But share your mega-gripe at full throttle. (Personally, the RV12's spring-loaded throttle is a big, dumb idea on my list). Comments should be short (under 100 words), coherent and, as with any vote, don't expect things to change, but at least you'll feel better.
a. Choose this answer, and then on the answer page you'll have the opportunity to tell us about the dumbest thing you've encountered in aviation.
b. Please don't select this answer, even if you don't intend to write to us. It is here for technical reasons, so that your final quiz score will be accurate.

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Interactive Quiz #178:Know Before You Go

Interactive Quiz #178:
Know Before You Go