Navigation and the FAA

When you go up in elevation, the pressure:

• Drops

• Rises

• Doesn't change

• May drop or raise depending on humidity.

Why is it important to have flight instruments? Mark all that are true.

• Helps a pilot know where they are.

• Helps a pilot know the planes speed.

• Helps a pilot know how fast they are going up or down.

• Helps a pilot decide how many passengers are on a plane.

What are three flight instruments operated by the pitot static system?

• GPS indicator

• Vertical speed indicator

• Airspeed indicator

• Altimeter

This is a(n):

• Ground Speed Indicator

• GPS Navigator

• Vertical Speed Indicator

• Altimeter

What altitude is shown by this guage?

• Around 12,000 feet

• Around 1500 feet

• Around 620 feet

• Around 1620 feet

What is true about groundspeed and airspeed?

• Airspeed is the speed of a plane going through the wind.

• Groundspeed is the measure of speed over ground accounting for wind. Either plus or minus.

• Groundspeed is an aircraft's rate of speed while taxiing on a runway.

• Airspeed is how fast of a headwind (or tailwind) a pilot must consider.

Distance in aviation is often measured in:

• knots

• TGS

• Nautical Miles

• Statute meters

When you're on a runway driving your plane on the ground, this is called:

• VFR

• GPS

• taxiing

• VOR

A heading is the:

• Path which an airplane takes

• compass direction in which a plane is pointed

• The elevation of a mountaintop

• The direction of a runway on a mountain landing strip.

A plane's track is:

• The VOR set by the tower

• The compass direction that a pilot points his plane in

• The actual direction that a plane travels based on wind and other factors

• The path on a runway that a plane must travel as mandated by the FAA