Mass and Balance - ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot license

Question 1

What are the standard masses used for crew?

Accepted Answer

85 kgs for flight crew, 75 kgs cabin crew, including hand baggage

Answer

88 kgs for flight crew, 76 kgs cabin crew, not including baggage

Answer

85 kgs for flight crew, 75 kgs cabin crew, not including hand baggage

Answer

88 kgs for flight crew, 76 kgs cabin crew, including baggage.

Question 2

Fuel loaded onto an aeroplane is 15400 kg but is erroneously entered into the load and trim sheet as 14500 kg. This error is not detected by the flight crew but they will notice that

Accepted Answer

Speed at un-stick will be higher than expected

Answer

V1 will be reached sooner than expected

Answer

V1 will be increased.

Answer

The aeroplane will rotate much earlier than expected.

Question 3

An aeroplane is to depart from an airfield at a take-off mass of 302550 kg. Fuel on board at take-off (including contingency and alternate of 19450 kg) is 121450 kg. The Dry Operating Mass is 161450 kg. The useful load will be

Accepted Answer

141100 kg

Answer

19650 kg

Answer

39105 kg

Answer

121450 kg

Question 4

An aeroplane is weighed and the following recordings are made: nose wheel assembly scale 5330 kgleft main wheel assembly scale 12370 kg right main wheel assembly scale 12480 kgIf the 'operational items' amount to a mass of 1780 kg with a crew mass of 545 kg, the empty mass, as entered in the weight schedule, is

Accepted Answer

30180 kg

Answer

28400 kg

Answer

31960 kg

Answer

32505 kg

Question 5

The standard mass for a child is

Accepted Answer

35 kg for all flights.

Answer

35 kg for holiday charters and 38 kg for all other flights.

Answer

30 kg for holiday charters and 35 kg for all other flights.

Answer

38 kg for all flights.

Question 6

An aeroplane is to depart from an airfield where the performance limited take-off mass is 89200 kg.Certificated maximum masses are as follows:Ramp (taxi) mass 89930 kg Maximum Take-off mass 89430 kg Maximum Landing mass 71520 kg Actual Zero fuel mass 62050 kg Fuel on board at ramp:Taxi fuel 600 kg Trip fuel 17830 kgContingency, final reserve and alternate 9030 kgIf the Dry Operating Mass is 40970 kg the traffic load that can be carried on this flight is

Accepted Answer

21080 kg

Answer

21500 kg

Answer

20870 kg

Answer

21220 kg

Question 7

Considering only structural limitations, on long distance flights (at the aeroplane's maximum range), the traffic load is normally limited by:

Accepted Answer

The maximum take-off mass.

Answer

The maximum zero fuel mass.

Answer

The maximum landing mass.

Answer

The maximum zero fuel mass plus the take-off mass.

Question 8

. The mass of an item multiplied by it's distance from the datum is it's

Accepted Answer

Moment

Answer

Force

Answer

Moment arm

Answer

Centre of gravity

Question 9

The maximum quantity of fuel that can be loaded into an aircraft's tanks is given as 400 US Gallons.If the fuel density (specific gravity) is given as 0.79 the mass of fuel which may be loaded is:

Accepted Answer

1196 kg

Answer

1437 kg

Answer

1916 kg

Answer

2302 kg

Question 10

An aeroplane is carrying a traffic load of 10320 kgComplete the necessary sections of the attached appendix and determine which of the answers given below represents the maximum increase in the traffic load

Accepted Answer

1830 kg

Answer

7000 kg

Answer

8268 kg

Answer

655 kg[see Annex]

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