What are the three types of landing gear? / What part of a plane develops lift?
What control surface on a plane causes it to roll?
About what axis does a plane roll? / What are the four forces which act on a plane?
What control surface on a plane causes it to turn about the vertical axis?
What is this motion called? / What happens to air pressure as you climb higher in the atmosphere?
What is the purpose of the wing spar?
Does the wing spar support the structure of the skin of the wing? If not, what does? / What is the angle between the chord line of the wing and the longitudinal axis called?
What is the angle of attack? / What is the point called where lift acts?
What type of lift is mostly responsible for causing a plane to fly?
What type of lift is responsible for causing a kite to fly? / What are the two types of drag?
What are the four types of flight maneuvers? / What does the Attitude Indicator do?
Is this instrument controlled by a gyroscope?
What does the Altimeter do?
Is this instrument controlled by a gyroscope? / What does the Turn Coordinator do?
Is this instrument controlled by a gyroscope?
What does the Vertical Speed Indicator do?
Is this instrument controlled by a gyroscope? / When a roller coaster is at its peak, barely moving, what type of energy does it mostly have?
What type of energy does it mostly have when it’s at the bottom, moving very fast?
What are the four strokes of a reciprocating engine? / In an engine, where are the fuel and air mixed for combustion?
What originates the spark for combustion in an aircraft engine? / What major function and two minor functions does oil serve?
What is the advantage of a variable-pitch propeller? / What three measurements do you need to take, to navigate from one point to another?
What type of imaginary line around the earth is parallel to the equator?
What type of imaginary line runs from the north pole to the south pole? / Name the cardinal points on the compass.
Name the intercardinal points on the compass.
The difference between true and magnetic north is called what? / What is compass deviation?
What are the components of a vector? / If a plane is flying from Boston to Albany (magnetic course 270 degrees) and the wind is from the north (magnetic 0 degrees), then how should the pilot compensate for the wind?
What is the name of the type of navigation where a pilot navigates only by reference to objects on the ground (e.g., roads, rivers, buildings)? / What are the radio beams called which extend in all directions from a VOR?
At what altitude does the Continental Control Area begin? / What are the low-altitude airways called?
What are the high-altitude airways called?
What information is given about airports on a sectional chart? / Putting an egg between your hands and pushing your hands together (splat!) creates a type of stress on the egg called compression. Describe two other types of stress.
How does an airplane’s propeller work? / At what temperature does water boil, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius?
What does Bernoulli’s principle state?
Why do we, in aviation, care? / On an aeronautical chart, what is color used to indicate? (Name at least two different uses of color.)