AVweb Quiz #180: Regulation Oscura

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Feb. 4, 2013

Interactive Quiz #180:
Regulation Oscura

Before flight, every pilot must plow through a spaghetti bog of regulations designed to enhance safety by potentially scaring the flyer to stay on the ground. But you won't scare easily once 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. It's never too early to plan your next presidential campaign. Not running for office but, instead, running away from TFRs, those roving blobs of certificate-suspending airspace that catch too many pilots off guard. The Feds get cranky when unidentified aircraft enter restricted airspace without authorization. Cross-border flights into the U.S. must file flight plans (IFR or DVFR -- Defense VFR) prior to crossing any ADIZ. Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR) pop up like dandelions, and failure to avoid could warrant interception by military or law-enforcement aircraft. It's deadly serious stuff. So, if a law-enforcement aircraft (civil or military) pulls up uninvited on your left side, slightly ahead and above and then rocks its wings -- you've been intercepted. You should:
a. Attempt to establish radio contact on 121.5.
b. Rock your wings.
c. Follow the intercepting aircraft.
d. All of the above.
e. Engage cloaking device.

2. Decode the acronym ADIZ mentioned in the previous question:
a. Air Defense Identification Zones
b. Aeronautical Defense Identification Zones
c. Air Defense Interception Zones
d. Aero Defense Interception Zones

3. Another type of interception is much friendlier and occurs when an IFR flight (or when VFR practicing instrument procedures in visual conditions) accepts radar vectors to an instrument final approach course. Example: "Fly heading 270, vector ILS 32 final approach course ..." ATC expects the pilot to fly the assigned headings "... until established on the final approach course ..." (and) "... cleared for approach." If you're being radar vectored to an instrument final approach course and the approach controller "forgets" you as you near the final (it happens), you should:
a. Intercept the final and complete the approach.
b. Maintain the last heading, even if it takes you across the final.
c. Maintain the last heading even if it takes you across the final and query ATC.
d. Squawk 7700 and depart the area.

4. Scenario: It's a nice, VFR day and you're cruising along in your transponder-equipped (Modes A and C) Mooney at 9500 feet MSL inside Class E airspace. You're not near Class B, C or D airspace or a Mode C ring around Class B airspace. You're not talking to ATC. Which transponder option best meets your FAR obligation?
a. Do not operate the transponder without ATC authorization.
b. Operate the transponder: ON, including altitude-encoding (ALT) if installed, and squawk 1200.
c. No need to operate the transponder below 10,000 feet MSL.
d. Operate the transponder: ON, squawk 7600.

5. Long before you move into the White House, you might want to plan a trip to Washington, D.C. Prior to flying VFR into DC, you'll need to become familiar with the DC SFRA by taking the online Special Awareness Training course at faasafety.gov. Prelude to that, please decode SFRA. (Don't try to pronounce it, though, or you'll sound like you're spitting out Saltine crumbs.)
a. Special Fright Rules Area
b. Special Flight Rules Area
c. Supplemental Flight Rules Area
d. Security Flight Rules Area

6. Because you've unmasked the DC SFRA's true identity, you also know that the special awareness training is required before operating VFR within (_____) NM of the DCA VOR/DME. (Fill in the blank.)
a. 30
b. 40
c. 50
d. 60

7. Before you fly anywhere, the aircraft must be airworthy. As PIC, you determine airworthiness by locating the FAA-issued airworthiness certificate, which should be displayed so that passengers -- who won't know an airworthiness certificate from a BINGO card -- can easily find it. The airworthiness certificate is valid for 36 months, and its presence signifies that the aircraft is airworthy. It's then up to the PIC to determine if the aircraft is safe for that flight. (Think standard airworthiness certificate.)
a. I fully support that statement.
b. I can't put my full faith in that statement.

8. Aircraft maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding, and alteration rules are covered under FAR Part (_____).
a. 21
b. 43
c. 61
d. 39

9. FAR 61.15 covers "Offenses involving alcohol or drugs." A seemingly pretty straight reg, which says -- in part -- that getting busted for the growing, processing, manufacture, selling, disposition, possession, transportation, or importation of marijuana (and other illegal drugs) is grounds for suspending an FAA certificate. FAR 61.15 does not apply in states where statutes allow marijuana possession for personal or medical use.
a. True
b. False

10. Ever wonder why your flight instructor is so well rested when you're dragging your tired carcass into the airplane for a flight review? It's because the FAA is deeply concerned about CFI welfare (OK, no giggling). Complete this loving statement: According to FAR 61.195 (a) a flight instructor is not permitted to conduct more than (_____) hours of flight training within any 24 hour period.
a. 4
b. 6
c. 8
d. 10

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Interactive Quiz #180:Regulation Oscura

Interactive Quiz #180:
Regulation Oscura