Aircraft General Knowledge - Instrumentation - ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot license

Question 1

The rate-of-turn is the:

Accepted Answer

Change-of-heading rate of the aircraft

Answer

Yaw rate in a turn

Answer

Aircraft speed in a turn

Answer

Pitch rate in a turn

Question 2

Modern low altitude radio altimeters emit waves in the following frequency band:

Accepted Answer

SHF (Super High Frequency).

Answer

VLF (Very Low Frequency).

Answer

HF (High Frequency).

Answer

UHF (Ultra High Frequency).

Question 3

The velocity maximum operating (VMO) is a speed expressed in:

Accepted Answer

Calibrated airspeed (CAS).

Answer

Equivalent airspeed (EAS).

Answer

True airspeed (TAS).

Answer

Mach number (M).

Question 4

A "close traffic advisory" is displayed on the display device of the TCAS II (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) by:

Accepted Answer

A yellow full circle.

Answer

A blue or white empty lozenge.

Answer

A red full square.

Answer

A blue or white full lozenge.

Question 5

A flight control system which can, in the event of a failure, complete automatically the approach, flare and landing is called fail...

Accepted Answer

Operational.

Answer

Passive.

Answer

Soft.

Answer

Hard.

Question 6

Heading information from the gyromagnetic compass flux gate is transmitted to the:

Accepted Answer

Error detector.

Answer

Heading indicator.

Answer

Erecting system.

Answer

Amplifier.

Question 7

One of the errors inherent in a ring laser gyroscope occurs at low input rotation rates tending towards zero when a phenomenon known as 'lock-in' is experienced. What is the name of the technique, effected by means of a piezo-electric motor, that is used

Accepted Answer

Dither

Answer

Zero drop

Answer

Cavity rotation

Answer

Beam lock

Question 8

A synchroscope is used on aircraft to:

Accepted Answer

Set several engines to the same speed.

Answer

Reduce the vibration of each engine.

Answer

Achieve optimum control of on-board voltages.

Answer

Reduce the RPM of each engine.

Question 9

In an autopilot system, the basic stabilisation modes are: 1) Altitude hold. 2) Pitch attitude hold. 3) Roll attitude hold. 4) IAS hold. The combination regrouping all the correct statements is:

Accepted Answer

2, 3

Answer

1, 2, 3

Answer

2, 3, 4

Answer

1

Question 10

During deceleration following a landing in a northerly direction, a magnetic compass made for the southern hemisphere indicates:

Accepted Answer

No apparent turn.

Answer

An apparent turn to the west.

Answer

An apparent turn to the east.

Answer

No apparent turn only on southern latitudes.

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