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

Question 1

After having programmed your flight director, you see that the indications of your ADI (Attitude Director Indicator) are as represented in diagram N°1 of the appended annex. On this instrument, the command bars indicate that you must:

Accepted Answer

Increase the flight attitude and bank your aeroplane to the left until the command bars recentre on the symbolic aeroplane.

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Decrease the flight attitude and bank your aeroplane to the left until the command bars recentre on the symbolic aeroplane.

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Increase the flight attitude and bank your aeroplane to the right until the command bars recentre on the symbolic aeroplane.

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Decrease the flight attitude and bank your aeroplane to the right until the command bars recentre on the symbolic aeroplane.

Question 2

The limits of the green scale of an airspeed indicator are:

Accepted Answer

VS1 for the lower limit and VNO for the upper limit

Answer

VS1 for the lower limit and VNE for the upper limit

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VS0 for the lower limit and VNO for the upper limit

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VS1 for the lower limit and VLO for the upper limit

Question 3

The error in altimeter readings caused by the variation of the static pressure near the source is known as:

Accepted Answer

Position pressure error

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Barometric error.

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Hysteresis effect.

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Instrument error.

Question 4

The signal transmitted by a radio altimeter is:

Accepted Answer

A frequency modulated carrier wave.

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An amplitude modulated carrier wave.

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A combination of frequency modulation and pulse modulation.

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A pulse modulated carrier wave.

Question 5

The probe used to measure the air intake pressure of a gas turbine engine powerplant is:

Accepted Answer

An aneroid capsule.

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A bellows sensor.

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A Bourdon tube.

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A differential capsule.

Question 6

The block diagram of an auto-pilot is shown in the annex. For each control channel (pitch, roll and yaw) the piloting law is the relationship between the deflection of the control surface commanded by the computer (BETA c) and the:

Accepted Answer

Offset EPSILON at the computer input.

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Pilot command E.

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Aircraft response S.

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Real deflection of the control surface (BETA control surface feedback).

Question 7

When engaged in the lateral navigation mode (LNAV) the autopilot uses:

Accepted Answer

The FMS roll or heading command.

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The FMS active (TO) waypoint coordinates.

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The FMS computation of the aircraft position and the FMS active (TO) waypoint bearing.

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The FMS path angle command.

Question 8

A ring laser gyro can measure:

Accepted Answer

Rotation about its sensitive axis.

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Rotation in all directions.

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Accelerations about its sensitive axis.

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Accelerations in all direction.

Question 9

The diagram which shows a 40° left bank and 15° nose down attitude is n°

Accepted Answer

1

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4

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3

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2

Question 10

On the ground, during a right turn, the turn indicator indicates:

Accepted Answer

Needle to the right, ball to left

Answer

Needle to the right, ball to right

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Needle in the middle, ball to left

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Needle in the middle, ball to right

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