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Questions for REVISION QUESTION 1

Answer the following questions

1. The FMC position is
2. An aircraft at latitude 0220N tracks 180°T for 685 kilometres. What is its latitude at the end of the flight?
3. The FMC can calculate: 1) Fuel necessary to divert round bad weather. 2) Fuel required for a missed approach, climb to altitude and fuel required to alternate. The correct combination is
4. On a chart, 49 nautical miles is represented by 7.0 centimetres. What is the scale?
5. Given: Position A is 60N 020W, Position B is 60N 021W, and Position C is 59N 020W, what are, respectively, the distances from A to B and from A to C?
6. A Lambert conformal conic chart has a constant of the cone of 0.80. A straight line course drawn on this chart from A (53°N 004°W) to B is 080° at A; course at B is 092°. What is the longitude of B?
7. You are homing to overhead a VORTAC and will descend from 7500 QNH to be 1000 AMSL by 6 nm DME. Your groundspeed is 156 knots and the ROD will be 800 feet/min. At what range from the VORTAC do you commence the descent?
8. What is the mean true track and distance from the BAL VOR (5318N 00627W) to CFN NDB (5502N 00820W)? - (use E(LO)1)
9. An aircraft at position 6000N 00522W flies 165 km due East. What is the new position?
10. You leave A to fly to B, 475 nm away, at 1000 hours. Your ETA at B is 1130. At 1040, you are 190 nm from A. What groundspeed is required to arrive on time at B?
11. The airport at 5211N 00932W is: (use Jeppesen E (LO) 1)
12. Given the following: True track: 192° Magnetic variation: 7° E Drift angle: 5° left What is the magnetic heading required to maintain the given track?
13. You fly from 49N to 58N along the 180 E/W meridian. What is the distance in kilometres?
14. At 0422 you are 185 nm from a VOR at FL 370. You need to descend at a mean descent rate of 1800’/min to be at FL 80 overhead the VOR. Your groundspeed in the level cruise is currently 320 knots. In the descent your mean G/S will be 232 knots. What is the latest time to commence descent?
15. Some inertial reference systems are known as ‘strapdown’. This means:-
16. What is the highest latitude on the Earth at which the Sun can be vertically overhead?
17. A Lamberts Conical conformal chart has standard parallels at 63N and 41N. What is the constant of the cone?
18. Why are the detector units of slaved gyro compasses usually located in the aircraft wingtips?
19. On a particular Direct Mercator wall chart, the 180°W to 180°E parallel of latitude at 53N is 133 cm long. What is the scale of the chart at 30S?
20. When it is 0600 Standard Time in Queensland, Australia, what is the Standard Time in Hawaii, USA? (Disregard Summer Time)
21. The purpose of the FMS is to
22. Which of the following conversions from True to Compass is the correct one? T V M D C
23. During a low level flight 2 parallel roads are crossed at right angles by an aircraft. The time between these roads can be used to check the aircraft
24. What is a line of equal magnetic variation?
25. On which chart projection is it not possible to show the North Pole?
26. An aircraft has a TAS of 300 knots and a safe endurance of 10 hours. If the wind component on the outbound leg is 50 knots head, what is the distance to the point of safe endurance?
27. Given: True Course 300° Drift 8°R Variation 10°W Deviation -4° Calculate the compass heading.
28. A B C |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3_0_ _n_m_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |_ _ _ _ _ _ _2_0_ n__m_ _ _ _ _ _| ATA A is 1010. ETA B is 1030. ETA C is 1043. ATA B is 1027. What is revised ETA C?
29. What is the formula for Conversion Angle?
30. The rhumb-line distance between points A (60° 00’N 002° 30’E) and B (60° 00’N 007° 30’W) is
31. Please refer to Appendix A. What is the symbol for an unlighted obstacle?
32. Which of the following indicates an advisory airspace (ADA) boundary?
33. What is the radial and DME distance from CRK VOR (5151N 00830W) to position 5220N 00910W?
34. What is the radial and DME distance from SHA VOR (5243N 00853W) to Birr airport (5304N 00755W)?
35. Where is a compass most effective?
36. On the Boeing 737-400 EFIS EHSI, on which modes is a Weather Radar Display available?
37. What is the advantage of the remote indicating compass (slaved gyro compass) over the direct reading magnetic compass?
38. What method of entering waypoints can be used on all INS equipments?
39. Which of the following can all be stored as five letter waypoint identifiers through the CDU of a B737- 400 Electronic Flight Instrument System?
40. You are on a heading of 105°C, deviation 3 E. WTD NDB (5211.3N 00705.0W) bears 013 R, CRK VOR (5150.4N 00829.7W) QDM is 211. What is your position? (Use Jeppesen E(LO)1)
41. Reference Jeppesen E(LO)1, position 5211N 00931W, which of the following denotes all the symbols?
42. An aircraft is at 5530N 03613W, where the variation is 15W. It is tuned to a VOR located at 5330N 03613W, where the variation is 12W. What VOR radial is the aircraft on?
43. Your radial from the SHA VOR (5243N 00853W) is 120° M. From the CRK VOR (5151N 00830W), the radial is 033° M. What is your position? - (use E(LO)1)
44. If it is 0700 hours Standard Time in Kuwait, what is the Standard Time in Algeria?
45. Given that the value of ellipticity of the Earth is 1/297 and that the semi-major axis of the Earth, measured at the axis of the Equator is 6378.4 Km, what is the semi-minor axis of the Earth measured at the axis of the Poles?
46. How does scale change on a normal Mercator chart?
47. From the departure point, the distance to the point of equal time is
48. Given: Runway direction 083°(M), Surface W/V 035/35 kt. Calculate the effective headwind component
49. Fuel flow per HR is 22 US-GAL, total fuel on board is 83 IMP GAL. What is the endurance?
50. In an INS, what is the output of the E/W second-stage integrator?