What is an NDB?
What is an NDB?
Non Directional Beacon, a medium range radio navigation aid that sends out a signal in all directions for an aircraft to home to.
What increases Mcrit?
What increases Mcrit?
Swept wings, thin wings.
What is the cabin altitude of the Boeing 737 on a cruise flight level?
What is the cabin altitude of the Boeing 737 on a cruise flight level?
8.000ft
The tailplane of a Seneca has an elevator and a trim tab, what does a Boeing 737 have?
The tailplane of a Seneca has an elevator and a trim tab, what does a Boeing 737 have?
The Boeing 737 has an all moving horizontal stabilizer.
Why will a jet usually not fly at 41.000 feet?
Why will a jet usually not fly at 41.000 feet?
Because of the distance which has to be covered to reach 41.000 feet which may not be convenient for a short flight.
On long flights it is more typical to fly at 41.000 feet when the aircraft weight and performance allows.
How are contrails formed?
How are contrails formed?
Their formation is most often triggered by freezing water vapour from the exhaust of aircraft engines.
What is a Rhumb Line?
What is a Rhumb Line?
A line across the surface of the earth that cuts all meridians at the same angle. i.e. a track of constant direction.
A straight line on a Mercator chart.
If you are at the locator, on glide-scope, on localiser, but your altimeter is reading 500ft high what could be the cause of this?
If you are at the locator, on glide-scope, on localiser, but your altimeter is reading 500ft high what could be the cause of this?
False glide slope.
What is an anti-servo tab?
What is an anti-servo tab?
An anti-servo tab works in the opposite way to a servo tab.
It deploys in the same direction as the control surface, making the movement of the control surface more difficult and requires more force applied to the controls by the pilot.
What is DOM?
What is DOM?
The Dry Operating Mass (DOM) is the Basic Empty Mass and the Variable Load, also called the Aircraft Prepared for Service (APS) weight.