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Saturday 30th August 2008
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Brainteasers Interactive Quiz #68:
Additional Ratings and Endorsements

Some pilot privileges require a written exam and a grueling checkride administered by a grumpy examiner. Others are gained through additional training from a friendly CFI and a low-anxiety sign-off. Know the difference?

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.

1. You caught the antique airplane fever when you saw a Howard DGA 15 at a fly-in. This non-pressurized, high-wing, fixed-gear, tailwheel airplane sports a single, 450-horsepower radial engine, swinging a constant-speed propeller. You hold a private pilot certificate with instrument, single-engine-land ratings. All of your time is in tricycle gear airplanes. What additional training and endorsements do you need to fly your new bird?
a. Tailwheel, complex, and high performance.
b. Tailwheel and high performance.
c. Tailwheel and complex.
d. Tailwheel only.
2. After 10 hours of dual instruction from an authorized flight instructor in a Citabria (tailwheel airplane) you receive a tailwheel endorsement in your logbook on June 1. Your next flight review (BFR) is due when?
a. 24 months from June 1.
b. 24 months from June 30.
c. 24 months from July 1.
d. 24 months from whenever you had your last flight review.
3. A private pilot with single-engine-land rating inherits a pressurized, single-engine, piston Piper Malibu from his late Aunt Helene who once flew P-38s as a WASP. The pilot receives training and one-time endorsements for high altitude, complex, and high performance aircraft. The POH (Pilot Operating Handbook) shows 20,000 feet to be a good altitude for the first solo cross-country. No additional training, endorsements, or ratings are needed to operate at this altitude.
a. True
b. False
4. Neither Malibu nor Howard is big enough for you, so you buy a DC-3. The sales rep points out that, like the Howard, it's a tailwheel airplane. Unlike the Howard, however, it has two engines, so you get a multi-engine rating. Then, you notice that the DC-3's maximum certificated take-off weight is more than 12,500 pounds. What additional endorsements or ratings might you need?
a. Type rating in a DC-3.
b. Type rating in any twin over 12,500 pounds.
c. Type certificate in a DC-3.
d. Type certificate in any twin over 12,500 pounds.
5. After passing the multi-engine checkride, the applicant is issued a Temporary Airman Certificate that's about the size of a high-school diploma and makes a big lump in the wallet, causing the pilot to lean slightly when seated. How many days is this temporary certificate valid while awaiting the arrival of the slimmer permanent ticket?
a. 30 days
b. 60 days
c. 90 days
d. 120 days
6. A private pilot with single-engine-land rating contemplates buying one of two airplanes. Both are non-pressurized with fixed, tricycle landing gear. Each has a 200-horsepower engine. One airplane has a controllable pitch propeller, and the other has a fixed pitch prop. The pilot does not have either complex or high performance endorsements and received her pilot certificate in 1999. The pilot has a current flight review and medical certificate. May she be PIC (Pilot In Command) of either airplane without additional training or endorsements?
a. Yes. She may be PIC in either airplane.
b. No. Anything 200 horsepower or greater requires additional training and an endorsement.
c. Yes. She may fly the fixed-pitch propeller airplane only, because it requires no additional training or endorsements.
d. Yes. She may fly either as PIC but may not carry passengers at night without an instrument rating.
7. An instrument-rated commercial pilot may fly a Cat II (Category II) ILS in IMC to Cat II minimums provided (pick the best answer):
a. The aircraft is appropriately equipped and the pilot has a Cat II waiver.
b. The aircraft is appropriately equipped and the pilot has a Cat II rating added to the instrument rating.
c. The aircraft is appropriately equipped and the pilot has demonstrated Cat II proficiency to an authorized CFII.
d. The aircraft is appropriately equipped and the pilot has a Cat II authorization from the FAA.
8. A private pilot certificate, airplane category, single-engine-land class allows the holder to tow gliders.
a. True.
b. False.
9. A private pilot with airplane single-engine-land rating only needs a one-time endorsement from an authorized instructor to act as PIC of a seaplane (single engine).
a. True
b. False
10. A person earned a private pilot certificate in 1979 in a tricycle gear Cessna 150. No subsequent training was received. In 1981 the pilot flew a tailwheel Piper Super Cruiser and logged one hour as PIC and then did not fly again until successfully completing a flight review today. Before signing the flight review endorsement the instructor inspects the old logbook, sees the entry for the Super Cruiser time (tailwheel), and says, "You never received a one-time tailwheel endorsement as per FAR 61.31, so you are not permitted to act as PIC in a tailwheel airplane until you receive training and the required one-time endorsement." Is the instructor correct? (Choose best answer.)
a. Yes. FAR 61.31 requires training and a one-time endorsement to act as PIC of a tailwheel airplane.
b. No. In 1981 real pilots flew taildraggers, and a tailwheel endorsement was not required.
c. Yes. But had the pilot logged five hours as PIC in a tailwheel airplane prior to April 15, 1997, the endorsement would not be required.
d. Yes. But had the pilot logged five hours as PIC in a tailwheel airplane prior to April 15, 1991, the endorsement would not be required.