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Exam simulation Meteorology - ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot license

Exam simulation ATPL Meteorology 120 questions on 120 minutes

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1 - When will the surface wind in a METAR record a gust factor?
2 - What weather conditions in the region of the Alps would you expect with Foehn from south?
3 - For a VFR aircraft, the conditions in which it could encounter severe airframe icing are:
4 - The Chinook is a
5 - Which of the following best describes the intertropical convergence zone?
6 - What are the characteristics of cumuliform clouds?
7 - Tropical revolving storms do not occur in the southeast Pacific and the south Atlantic because
8 - What values are used for the forecasted wind at higher levels?
9 - The greater the pressure gradient the
10 - What are squall lines?
11 - The first clouds are thin, wispy cirrus, followed by sheets of cirrus and cirrostratus, and altostratus. The sun is obscured as the altostratus thickens and drizzle or rain begins to fall. The cloud base is lowering as Nimbostratus arrives. These phenomena describe the approach of a
12 - What relationship exists between the wind at 3000 feet and the surface wind?
13 - Normally, temperature readings are taken at a height of ___ in a Stevenson screen.
14 - What name is given to the jet stream lying over North Africa (B)?
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15 - What type of fronts are most likely to be present during the winter in Central Europe when temperatures close to the ground are below 0°C, and freezing rain starts to fall?
16 - LFPG 221100Z 2212/2219 22010KT 4500 RA BKN010 OVC015 TEMPO 2212/2214 1500 +RA OVC005 FM221430 29020G35KT 6000 SHRA BKN008TCU OVC015 TEMPO 2216/2219 25010KT 9999 NSW BKN020 PROB30 TEMPO 2216/2219 1500 TSGR BKN007CB What is the most likely visibility for landing at 13:45Z?
17 - In which of the following areas is the highest frequency of thunderstorms encountered?
18 - A cumulonimbus cloud at mid-latitudes in summer contains
19 - The approximate inclined plane of a warm front is:
20 - Divergence in the upper air results, near the surface, in:
21 - Which of the following statements concerning the variation in wind speed between summer and winter on the North Atlantic between FL 300 and FL 400 is most correct?
22 - About ten identical clouds are in the sky, well isolated from one another, dense, with well defined contours, developing vertically in a cauliflower shape. The side of these clouds lit by the sun is bright white. Their base, relatively dark, is essentially horizontal and at FL 30, and their tops at FL 150. These clouds are
23 - What surface weather is associated with a stationary high pressure region over land in the winter?
24 - A strong, dry and warm downslope wind, produced by prior enforced ascent of air over hills or mountains is known as a
25 - Which of the following changes of state is known as sublimation (in meteorology)?
26 - An aircraft is flying over the sea at FL 120, with a true altitude of 12000 feet; local QNH is 1013 hPa. What assumption, if any, can be made about the air mass in which the aircraft is flying?
27 - At which airport, is the following weather development taking place? TAF 060600Z 0607/0616 25006KT 8000 BKN240 BECMG 0607/0610 OVC200 BECMG 0610/0613 23010KT 8000 OVC100 BECMG 0613/0616 23014KT 6000 RA SCT030 OVC050 =
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28 - During the formation of rime ice in flight, water droplets freeze
29 - A horizontal tailwind gust may cause an aeroplane to:
30 - The QFF at an airfield in California located 69 metres below sea level is 1030 hPa. The air temperature is 10°C lower than a standard atmosphere. What is the QNH?
31 - What is the correct term for the descending air flow in a large high pressure area?
32 - After a sunny day, followed by a long clear night, you take-off from an airfield at mid- latitudes in the northern hemisphere an hour before sunrise. The field is not situated close to the coast. Though the pressure gradient is rather large, the easterly surface wind is weak. What do you expect?
33 - What name is given to the jet stream lying across India (A)?
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34 - What characterizes a stationary front?
35 - At a certain position, the temperature at 300 hPa is -48°C and the tropopause is at FL 330. What is the most likely temperature at FL 350?
36 - Which of the following statements is true with regard to a mature thunderstorm:
37 - Which of the following is typical for the passage of an active cold front in the summer?
38 - The maximum vapour pressure over a flat supercooled water surface and the maximum vapour pressure over a flat ice surface of the same temperature are compared. The maximum vapour pressure is
39 - In central Europe when is the greatest likelihood for thunderstorms due to warm updrafts?
40 - A flight is to depart from an airport with runways 09 and 27. Surface wind is 270/05; an inversion is reported at 300 feet with turbulence and wind shear. The wind just above the inversion is 090/30. What is the safest departure procedure?
41 - What is the dry adiabatic lapse rate?
42 - In temperate latitudes what weather conditions may be expected over land during the summer in the centre of a stationary high pressure zone?
43 - What is the vertical temperature lapse rate, up to 11 km, in the standard ICAO atmosphere?
44 - Isobars on a surface chart are lines of equal
45 - Frontal fog can be formed by
46 - An aircraft lands at an airport (airport elevation 1240 FT, QNH 1008 hPa). The altimeter is set to 1013 hPa. The altimeter will indicate:
47 - In which of the following situations can freezing rain be encountered?
48 - An air temperature of -15°C at the 700 hPa level over central Europe in summer is:
49 - If the pressure surfaces bulge upwards in all levels then the pressure system is a:
50 - An aircraft is approaching under visual flight rules an airfield whose runway is parallel to the coast. When downwind over the sea, the airfield is on the right. What wind effect should be anticipated on final approach and landing during a sunny afternoon?
51 - Which of the following cloud types can project up into the stratosphere?
52 - A Foehn wind occurs on the
53 - Considering the route indicated from Recife to Dakar the mean height of the tropopause during January is approximately
54 - Depressions associated with developing frontal waves can be assumed to move in the direction of the 3000 feet wind
55 - After landing at an aerodrome (aerodrome elevation 1715 FT), the altimeter indicates an altitude of 1310 FT. The altimeter is set to the pressure value of 1013 hPa. What is the QNH at this aerodrome?
56 - The ICAO Standard Atmosphere (ISA) assumes that temperature will reduce at the rate of:
57 - What pressure is defined as QFE?
58 - Under the weather conditions depicted, which of the following statements is likely to apply?
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59 - An aircraft is flying at FL 180 in the northern hemisphere with a crosswind from the left. Which of the following is correct concerning its true altitude?
60 - An aircraft is flying from south to north, above the polar front jet stream, at FL 400 in the southern hemisphere. What change, if any, in temperature will be experienced?
61 - When severe mountain waves are present, where would the area of most severe turbulence be located?
62 - Between which latitudes are you most likely to find the region of travelling low pressure systems during summer?
63 - The temperature at 10000 FT in the ICAO Standard Atmosphere is:
64 - In the northern hemisphere the gradient wind of a cyclonic pressure distribution is 350/24, over the sea the surface wind would approximate
65 - What is the average height of the arctic jet stream core?
66 - An aircraft maintains a constant indicated altitude of 5500 FT from A (1050 FT/AMSL - QNH 968 hPa) to B (650 FT/AMSL - QNH 1016 hPa). Assuming that the altimeter subscale setting remains unchanged at 968 hPa, the height of the aircraft above the surface at B will be
67 - A zone of strong convection currents is encountered during a flight. In spite of moderate gust you decide to continue the flight. What are your precautionary measures?
68 - Which of the following processes within a layer of air may lead to the building of CU and CB clouds?
69 - How does freezing rain develop?
70 - Clouds, classified as being low level are considered to have bases from
71 - What is the approximate composition of the dry air by volume in the troposphere?
72 - What degree of turbulence, if any, is likely to be encountered while flying through a cold front in the summer over Central Europe at FL 100?
73 - What information is required to convert a minimum safe altitude into a lowest usable flight level?
74 - Ahead of a warm front (northern hemisphere) the wind direction changes from the surface up to the tropopause. The effect of this change is that the wind
75 - Where, as a general rule, is the core of the polar front jet stream to be found?
76 - What process in an air mass leads to the creation of wide spread NS and AS cloud coverage?
77 - On a clear sky, continental ground surface, wind calm, the minimum temperature is reached approximately:
78 - How do air masses move at a warm front?
79 - A layer is absolutely unstable if the temperature decrease with height is
80 - An air mass is called stable when
81 - What is the relationship between visibility and RVR in homogeneous fog?
82 - Where is the coldest air to be found, in an occlusion with cold front characteristics?
83 - What is the surface visibility most likely to be, in a warm sector of tropical maritime air, during a summer afternoon in western Europe?
84 - Which statement concerning the tropopause is correct?
85 - The geostrophic wind depends on
86 - A wind of 20 knots corresponds to an approximate speed of
87 - The tropopause is a level at which
88 - Convective weather phenomena include:
89 - Where does polar continental air originate?
90 - What is the name of the northerly, cold and strong wind, that sometimes blows over a certain part of Europe (France)?
91 - An air mass is unstable when
92 - During a flight over the sea at FL 100 from Marseille (QNH 1016 hPa) to Palma de Mallorca (QNH 1016 hPa), the true altitude is constantly decreasing. What is the probable reason for this?
93 - Where are you likely to find the strongest winds close to the ground?
94 - An air mass is stable when
95 - What is a favourable synoptic situation for the development of a Scirocco?
96 - From summer to winter the average geographic position of the polar front jet stream over the North Atlantic moves
97 - Wind is caused by
98 - An aircraft lands at an airport (airport elevation 540', QNH 993 hPa) with the altimeter set to 1013 hPa. What will it indicate?
99 - Which one of the following statements concerning the formation of aircraft icing is most correct?
100 - The temperature at FL 110 is -5°C. What will the temperature be at FL 50 if the ICAO standard lapse rate is applied?
101 - Advection fog is most likely to form when
102 - The radiation of the sun heats
103 - Strongly developed cumulus clouds are an indication of
104 - What is the approximate vertical interval which is equal to a pressure change of 1 hPa at an altitude of 5500 m?
105 - Pressure altitude is obtained by:
106 - A gust front is
107 - During the climb after take-off, the altimeter setting is adjusted at the transition altitude. If the local QNH is 966 hPa, what will happen to the altimeter reading during the resetting procedure?
108 - The process by which water vapour is transformed directly into ice is known as:
109 - With what type of cloud is '+TSRA' precipitation most commonly associated?
110 - Isolated thunderstorms of a local nature are generally caused by:
111 - Assuming a generalised zonal system of world wind circulation, the NE trade winds are applicable to zone
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112 - A parcel of unsaturated air is forced to rise through an isothermal layer. So long as it remains unsaturated, the temperature of the parcel
113 - Fallstreaks or virga are:
114 - An aircraft over Western Europe is crossing a jet stream 2500 FT below its core at right angles. While crossing, the outside temperature is increasing. The prevailing wind is
115 - What winds and air mass characteristics are mainly associated with the winter monsoon in the monsoon regions of the Indian sub-continent?
116 - When water evaporates into unsaturated air:
117 - What are the typical differences with regard to the temperature and humidity between an air mass with its origin in the Azores and an air mass with its origin over northern Russia?
118 - Which of the following statements concerning the intertropical convergence zone is true?
119 - In unstable air, surface visibility is most likely to be restricted by
120 - What are the characteristics of the Bora?
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