Fundamentals Review

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Which kind of landing gear does a "taildragger" aircraft have?

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conventional

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If you convert 3:45 PM in New York City to 1545M and add the hours for Eastern Standard time in February what Zulu time is it in NYC?

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2054Z

Front

You are flying along at 3000 feet MSL and your airspeed indicator drops to zero, what is the likely cause of this?

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your Pitot tube is blocked or frozen

Front

How can you tell jet fuel from 100 low lead aviation gas?

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Aviation gas is blue and watery and jet fuel is yellow tinted, oily and smells like kerosene.

Front

What do you call an aircraft that has an underneath structure attached to its outside skin to give it shape and make it stronger?

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Semi-monoque

Front

If you overload a plane to its rear

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Less stable at all speeds

Front

On a section chart or map in under where an airports name is listed how can you tell what the field elevation is?

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its always the first number on the left by itself and may be followed by a L for lighting and the runway length in 2-3 numbers like 55 for 5500 feet or 120 for 12000 feet runway length

Front

What is an ATIS (Automatic Terminal Information Service) given over an aircraft's radio used for?

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standard things like weather, winds, altimeter setting, runway in use, other stuff for how things are around an airport that doesn't involve ATC

Front

What color are the lights on the edge of a airport taxiway at night?

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Blue

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If an airport is using their beacon during daytime it means

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the weather is not good enough for flying by sight visually (VFR)