Private Pilot Oral Exam Questions and Answers 100% Verified 2024 certification requirements - Correct Answer at least 17, speak/write/understand english, hold US student pilot license, hold 3rd class medical, receive flight and ground training, pass exams privileges and limitations - Correct Answer as PIC you may not carry passengers for compensation or hire high performance airplane - Correct Answer 200+ horsepower planes that need specific training and logbook endorsements: - Correct Answer high-performance, complex, high-altitude, and tailwheel complex airplane - Correct Answer retractible gear, flaps, variable prop requirements to remain current: - Correct Answer with 24 calendar months... flight review given in aircraft that pilot is rated in. To carry passengers.... 3 takeoffs and landings within 90 days medical certificate expires (under age 40) - Correct Answer 60th calendar month medical certificate expires (over the age of 40) - Correct Answer 24th calendar month if pilot changes his/her email they have _____ days to notify FAA. - Correct Answer 30 days documents required on board of aircraft prior to flight: - Correct Answer Airworthiness certificate, Registration, Owners manual or operating limitations, Weight and Balance data How does pilot determine if aircraft has Mode C transponder on aircraft? - Correct Answer by referencing the current weight and balance equipment list Does aircrafts registration expire? - Correct Answer YES. 3 years + end of month 1 / 3
Who is responsible for making sure plane is maintained/airworthy? - Correct Answer The owner and operator What records/documents should be checked to determine aircraft is good for inspections and airworthy? - Correct Answer All maintenance records and logs Airworthiness certificate: - Correct Answer Issued by FAA after aircraft has been inspected & meets requirements, does NOT expire, must be displayed The use of MELS: - Correct Answer allows for the deferral of inoperative items or equipment required maintenance inspections: - Correct Answer Annual every 12 months, or every 100 hours preventative maintenance: - Correct Answer simple or minor preservation operations and the replacement of small standard parts not involving complex assembly operations... ex) oil changes, hydraulic fluid refill special flight permits: - Correct Answer may be issued for aircraft that doesn't currently meet airworthiness requirements but is still capable of safe flight airworthiness directives: - Correct Answer AD's; medium the FAA uses to notify aircraft owners and other potentially interested persons of unsafe conditions that may exist because of deign defects, maintenance, or other causes under which the the product may continue to be operated.
Low pressure atmosphere: - Correct Answer inward, upward, and counterclockwise
High pressure atmosphere: - Correct Answer outward, downward, and clockwise
trough: - Correct Answer tough line; elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure. Low pressure and bad weather 2 / 3
ridge: - Correct Answer ridge line; elongated area of high atmospheric pressure. High pressure and good weather isobars - Correct Answer line on a weather chart which connects areas of equal or constant barometric pressure winds aloft - Correct Answer a forecast of specific atmospheric conditions in terms of wind and temperature at certain altitudes, typically measured in feet (ft) above mean sea level (MSL) what causes winds aloft to flow parallel to the isobars? - Correct Answer The coriolis force what does "dew point" mean? - Correct Answer temperature to which a sample of air must be cooled to attain the state of saturation how do you determine the stability of the atmosphere? - Correct Answer Instability is likely when air near the surface is warm and moist
- types of structural icing that can occur in flight: - Correct Answer clear ice, rime ice, and mixed ice
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action you should take if you accidentally run into icing conditions: - Correct Answer leave the area of visible moisture --> descending to an altitude below the cloud bases, climbing to an altitude above the cloud tops, or turn to a different course is frost dangerous? - Correct Answer Yes, the roughness of its surface spoils the smooth flow of air, causing a slowing of airflow and loss of some lift factors that have to be present for a thunderstorm to form: - Correct Answer sufficient water vapor, unstable lapse rate, upward boost to start the storm process in motion temperature inversion: - Correct Answer is an increase in temperature with height, a reversal of the normal decrease with height