Chapter 1 review

With respect to the certification of airmen, which are categories of aircraft?

• Airplane, rotorcraft, glider, lighter-than-air.

• Gyroplane, helicopter, airship, free balloon.

• Single-engine land and sea, multi-engine land and sea.

A third-class medical certificate is issued to a 36-year-old pilot on August 10, this year. To exercise the privileges of a private pilot certificate, the medical certificate will be valid until midnight on

• August 31, five years later.

• August 10, three years later.

• August 31, three years later.

The FAA BasicMed rule allows pilots to operate small aircraft on certain personal flights

• without a physical examination.

• after one-time completion of an approved online medical education course.

• using a driver’s license instead of a medical certificate.

To act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers, a pilot must show by logbook endorsement the satisfactory completion of a flight review or completion of a pilot proficiency check within the preceding

• 6 calendar months. 

• 12 calendar months. 

• 24 calendar months

To act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers, a pilot must have made three takeoffs and three landings within the preceding 90 days in an aircraft of the same

• make and model.

• category and class, but not type.

• category, class, and type, if a type rating is required.

In regard to privileges and limitations, a private pilot may

• not be paid in any manner for the operating expenses of a flight.

• not pay less than the pro rata share of the operating expenses of a flight with passengers, provided the expenses involve only fuel, oil, airport expenditures, or rental fees.

•  act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying a passenger for compensation if the flight is in connection with a business or employment.

Before a person holding a private pilot certificate may act as pilot in command of a high-performance airplane, that person must have

• passed a flight test in that airplane from an FAA inspector.

• an endorsement in that person’s logbook that he or she is competent to act as pilot in command.

• received ground and flight instruction from an authorized flight instructor who then endorses that person’s logbook.