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Brainteasers Interactive Quiz #33:
Knowledge Test Questions

Four times a year, the FAA makes changes to its question banks for virtually every knowledge test. Irv Siegel's Brainteaser for this month consists of new and changed questions recently added to the Commercial Pilot, Instrument Pilot, and Airline Transport Pilot test question bank. Irv has chosen the 15 new questions that he considers most relevant to actual flight in the real world ... AND he's furnished the answers to these questions, which the FAA does NOT do.

by Irv Siegel

NOTE: The FAA publications that cover the material on this quiz are Aviation Weather Services, the Airplane Flying Handbook, and the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM). The complete knowledge test question banks (without the answers) are available from the FAA's AFS-600 website at http://afs600.faa.gov.

1. For night flying operations, the best night vision is achieved when the
a. pupils of the eyes have become dilated in approximately 10 minutes.
b. rods in the eyes have become adjusted to the darkness in approximately 30
c. cones in the eyes have become adjusted to the darkness in approximately 5
minutes.

2. When planning a night cross-country flight, a pilot should check for
a. availability and status of en route and destination airport lighting
b. red en route course lights.
c. location of rotating light beacons.
systems.

3. Light beacons producing red flashes indicate
a. end of runway warning areas.
and continue circling.


b. instructions for the pilot to remain clear of an airport traffic pattern
c. obstructions or areas considered hazardous to aerial navigation.
4. What is the first indication of flying into restricted visibility
a. Ground lights begin to take on an appearance of being surrounded by a halo
b. A gradual disappearance of lights on the ground.
c. Cockpit lights begin to take on an appearance of a halo or glow around
conditions when operating VFR at night?


or glow.


them.

5. After experiencing a powerplant failure at night, one of the primary
a. turning off all electrical switches to save battery power for the landing.
area.


b. planning the emergency approach and landing to an unlighted portion of an
c. maneuvering to, and landing on a lighted highway or road.
considerations should include

6. When planning for an emergency landing at night, one of the primary
a. selecting a landing area close to public access, if possible.
b. landing without flaps to ensure a nose-high landing attitude at touchdown.
c. turning off all electrical switches to save battery power for the landing.
considerations should include

7. Who has the final authority to accept or decline any "land and hold
a. ATC tower controller.
b. Airplane owner/operator.
c. Pilot-In-Command.
short" (LAHSO) clearance?

8. While maintaining a constant angle of bank and altitude in a coordinated
a. Increase the rate of turn resulting in no change in load factor.
b. decrease the rate of turn resulting in a decreased load factor.
c. decrease the rate of turn resulting in no change in load factor.
turn, an increase in airspeed will

9. As airspeed decreases in level flight below that speed for maximum
a. decreases because of lower parasite drag.
b. increases because of increased parasite drag.
c. increases because of increased induced drag.
lift/drag ratio, total drag of an airplane

10. To use VHF/DF facilities for assistance in locating your position, you
a. transmitter and receiver, and an operative VOR receiver.
b. transmitter and receiver, and an operative ADF receiver.
c. transmitter and receiver.
must have an operative VHF

11. Pilots are encouraged to turn on the aircraft rotating beacon
a. just prior to engine start.
b. anytime an engine is in operation.
c. anytime they are in the cockpit.
12. To scan properly for traffic, a pilot should
a. use a series of short, regularly spaced eye movements that bring
b. slowly sweep the field of vision from one side to the other at intervals.
c. concentrate on any peripheral movement detected.
successive areas of the sky into the central visual field.

13. The body of a Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) covers a geographical
a. 5 to 10 nautical mile radius of the center of an airport.
b. 5 statute mile radius from the center of an airport runway complex.
c. 5 to 10 statute mile radius from the center of an airport runway compleex.
proximity within a

14. A calm wind that is forecast in the International Terminal Aerodrome
Forecast (TAF) is encoded as


a. VRB00KT.
b. 00000KT.
c. 00003KT.
15. The Federal Aviation Administration's Flight Information Service Data
Link (FISDL) provides the following products:


a. METARs, SIGMETs, NOTAMs, and AIRMETs.
b. SPECIs, SIGMETs, NOTAMs, and AIRMETs.
c. Convective SIGMETs, PIREPs, AWWs, and adverse conditions.