Meteorology - Quiz ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot license

The pressure altitude is equal to the true altitude if	4 Answers
An aircraft maintains a constant indicated altitude of 6500 FT from A (600 FT/AMSL - QNH 1012 hPa) to B (930 FT/AMSL - QNH 977 hPa). Assuming that the altimeter subscale setting remains unchanged at 1012 hPa, the height of the aircraft above the surface at B will be	4 Answers
Whilst flying at FL 180 on the northern hemisphere an aircraft experiences right drift. What effect, if any, will this have on the aircraft's true altitude ?	4 Answers
The greater the pressure gradient the	4 Answers
The geostrophic wind depends on	4 Answers
Under anticyclone conditions in the northern hemisphere, with curved isobars the speed of the gradient wind is	4 Answers
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	4 Answers
A high pressure area (slack pressure gradient) covers part of the Mediterranean Sea and coastal region during the summer. What surface wind direction is likely at an airport at the coast on a sunny afternoon?	4 Answers
Which jet stream blows all year round, over the northern hemisphere?	4 Answers
What is the most significant difference between an equatorial jet stream and all the other jet streams ?	4 Answers

Meteorology - ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot license