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| Airmen Certificate and or rating application |
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| Explain which documents must be on board the aircraft. |
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AROW
A-Airworthiness certificate.
R-Registration.
O-Operating manual.
W-Weight and Balance sheet. |
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| What invalidates the airworthiness certificate? |
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| Failure to comply with Airworthiness Directives, failure to do required maintenance, an action that contradicts the POH, minor or major accident, snag written in the journey logbook. |
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| Which of the required documents on board the aircraft must be in view? |
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| Airworthiness Certificate. |
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| What are the required inspections for your aircraft? |
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| Annual Inspection/ 100 hour inspection |
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| What are your private pilot privileges and limitations? |
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You may not act as pilot in command for compensation or hire.
You may not pay less than the pro rata share for a flight. |
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| Every 2 years, you have to take 1 hour of ground and 1 hour of flight time with a qualified instructor to brush up your skills. |
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| Do you need to log flight time? |
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| What are the various v-speeds for your aircraft? |
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Vso- stall speed, flaps down, power off.
Vsi- stall speed, flaps up, power off.
Vx- best angle of climb.
Vy- best rate of climb.
Vr- normal take off speed.
Vg- best glide.
Vfe- maximum flap extended speed.
Va- maneuvering speed.
Vno- maximum structural cruising speed. |
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| What would you want to maintain as a Vy climb for awhile after takeoff? |
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| When might you want to slow down below maneuvering speed? |
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| What is the effect of high density altitude on performance, and what three things contribute to high density altitude? |
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| Have you ever had carb-ice and when do you use carb heat? |
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| What is the spin recovery procedure for your aircraft? |
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| Can you intentionally spin your aircraft according to your manufacturer limitations? |
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| Explain what you would do if a large aircraft departed just as you were coming in to land. |
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| What is the maximum allowable baggage that you can put in the baggage compartment of your airplane? |
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| What are the various anti- or de-icing components of your aircraft, and which one is each? |
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| When would you use pitot heat? |
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| What is the total fuel on your aircraft and how much of that is usable? |
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| How are the fuel tanks vented to allow for air to replace fuel that is used? |
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| Would the engine quit if you lost the electrical power? |
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| How would you identify a electrical failure? |
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| What are the required instruments and equipment for day VFR flight? |
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| Could you fly the airplane if a piece of required equipment was not operational? If so, what would you need to do? |
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| What are the night VFR equipment requirements? |
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| Explain hypoxia and it's symptoms. |
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| Explain hyperventilation and it's symptoms? |
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| Explain the supplemental oxygen requirements. |
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| What would you do if you smelt exhaust fumes in the cockpit? |
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| Why do you have to avoid alcohol and certain over-the-counter drugs with respect to flying, when you are allowed to drive with them, for example, immediately after having a few drinks? |
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| Explain the effects of excessive nitrogen in the blood. Why might this be significant for you as a pilot? |
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| Where do class A, B, C, D, E, and G airspaces exist and show me on a chart. |
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| What do you need to get into class A airspace? |
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| What do you need to get into class B airspace? |
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| What do you need to get into class C airspace? |
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| What do you need to get into class G airspace? |
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| What are maximum elevation figures on a chart? |
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| Explain Military Operations Areas and where can you find information about specific MOAs depicted on your chart? |
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| How did you get the weather for today's flight? |
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| Depending on all of the factors, can we make today's flight safely? |
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| What were the winds aloft? |
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| How can you get wind-shear reports? |
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| Explain airmets and sigmets. |
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| Would you consider a sigmet dangerous? |
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| Why did you choose the cruising altitude that you did? |
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| Explain the hemispherical rule. |
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| How would you activate your flight plan once airborne? |
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| Explain how you arrived at your computed heading and ground speed for the first leg of the trip. |
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| Explain why you chose the checkpoints that you did. |
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| How will you determine the active runway at your destination? How about at an uncontrolled airport? |
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| What if you call the unicom and nobody answers? |
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