FAA Sport Pilot Practice Test

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• The MOA separates IFR traffic from which type of activities?
• The term for interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce or mail transport by aircraft, including related safety concerns, is?
• What is the term for a pilot, flight engineer, or flight navigator assigned to duty in an aircraft during flight time?
• Which term is defined as the navigation method that allows operation on any desired flight path and is associated with RNAV?
• What term denotes an area of land, water, or structure used or intended for landing and takeoff of helicopters?
• Which of the following is true about an ETOPS Group 1 Significant System?
• What term refers to any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance, or accessory, including communications equipment, that is used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight, is installed in or attached to the aircraft, and is not part of an airframe, engine, or propeller?
• For OEI ratings of two minutes or less, the maximum engine overt torque may occur for up to how many seconds without engine rejection?
• For a glider without self-launch capability, pilot time begins when the glider is towed for the purpose of flight and ends when the glider comes to rest after landing. What is this time period called?
• Maximum Engine Overtorque refers to which concept for turbopropeller and turboshaft engines with free power turbines in OEI ratings?
• What phrase describes a full flight simulator or a flight training device?
• In relation to the load factor, the specified load can be expressed in terms of which forces?
• Which term refers to the aerodynamic surface components including rotors, but excluding propellers and rotating engine blades?
• Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft are aircraft that rise and remain suspended by using contained gas weighing less than the air that is displaced by the gas.
• In ETOPS, when an engine ceases to function in flight and is shutdown, which term is used to describe this event?
• In relation to Class A airspace, MOAs are located where?
• Prevailing horizontal visibility near the earth's surface as reported by the United States National Weather Service or an accredited observer is known as what?
• Which statement best describes the information MOA provides to VFR pilots?
• What rotorcraft term describes a rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-driven except for initial start, rotors spun by air when moving, with propulsion usually via conventional propellers independent of the rotor system?
• Ceiling is defined as:
• What term describes an airspace of defined dimensions within which air traffic control service is provided to IFR flights and to VFR flights in accordance with the airspace classification?
• Manifold Pressure is defined as what?
• What does the load factor describe in relation to an aircraft's weight?
• Which of the following is an example of Class for certification within a category having similar operating characteristics?
• The Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) constraints are included in which FAA-approved document?
• Which rotor supplies the principal lift to a rotorcraft?
• The fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairings, airfoil surfaces (including rotors but excluding propellers and rotating airfoils of engines), and landing gear belong to which major component group?
• What defines Extended Operations (ETOPS)?
• Which term refers to a rotor that serves either to counteract the main rotor torque or to maneuver the rotorcraft about axes?
• In a multiengine aircraft, which engine's failure would most adversely affect performance or handling qualities?
• Which statement best describes the clearway as defined for turbine-powered airplanes certificated after 1959?
• Interstate Air Transportation is defined as the carriage of persons or property as a common carrier for compensation or hire, by turbojet-powered aircraft capable of carrying thirty or more persons, wholly within the same state.
• Light-Sport Aircraft seating is limited to a maximum of two persons, including the pilot.
• What term describes information relating to the intended flight that is filed with air traffic control?
• An Enhanced Flight Vision System includes which components?
• Which term describes not being susceptible to combustion to the point of flame propagation after the ignition source is removed?
• Which term describes a person who, for compensation or hire, engages in the carriage by aircraft in air commerce of persons or property, excluding certain authorities?
• What term describes a reciprocating aircraft engine having a rated takeoff power that is producible from sea level to an established higher altitude?
• Which term is used to describe the forward flight visibility phenomenon used in pilot reporting of visibility conditions?
• If a pilot asks about where non-hazardous military activities occur, MOA provides information for which traffic?
• With respect to a fluid or gas, which term means susceptible to igniting readily or to exploding?
• A person who undertakes directly by lease or other arrangement to engage in air transportation is known as a(n)?
• What term describes a service operated by the appropriate authority to promote a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of aircraft?
• What does EFVS stand for?
• Which of the following is a correct description of MOA?
• Which term describes an ATS route based on RNAV that can be used by suitably equipped aircraft?
• Which term refers to an instrument or accessory used in operating an aircraft, installed in the aircraft, but not part of the airframe, engine, or propeller?
• Light-Sport Aircraft is an aircraft that, since its original certification, has continued to meet criteria including maximum takeoff weight not exceeding 1,320 pounds (not intended for water), or not exceeding 1,430 pounds for water operation, maximum airspeed, maximum seating capacity of no more than two including the pilot, and a single reciprocating engine.
• What term denotes the speed of an airplane shown on its pitot-static airspeed indicator calibrated to reflect standard atmosphere adiabatic compressible flow at sea level, uncorrected for airspeed system errors?
• Which term describes a route for air traffic services that includes a designated path to and from significant points?
• An engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered is called a(n)?
• Which term is defined as a specified route designated for channeling the flow of traffic for air traffic services, and may include route designator, path to/from significant points, distance between points, reporting requirements, and the lowest safe altitude?
• Extended Over-Water Operation for airplanes is defined as operation over water at more than how many nautical miles from the nearest shoreline?
• Which term refers to the information filed with ATC about the intended flight?
• What term refers to an area established to inform pilots of a specific area wherein a high volume of pilot training or an unusual type of aeronautical activity is conducted?
• Which term means any person other than a United States citizen who undertakes directly, by lease or other arrangement, to engage in air transportation?
• An ATS Route specification may include which of the following elements?
• Interstate Air Commerce refers to carriage by aircraft for compensation or hire, or the carriage of mail in commerce between which locations?
• A MOA is established to separate IFR traffic from which activities?
• For VFR traffic, MOA provides information about where the activities are conducted. Which choice reflects this?
• Which term refers to a replica of aircraft instruments, equipment, panels, and controls used for training in a ground and flight environment, including the required equipment and QPS for a specific FTD level?
• Category III Operations refer to:
• Landing Gear Extended Airspeed is the maximum speed at which the landing gear can be safely extended or retracted.
• What instrument approach altitude is the pilot required to decide on a missed approach if the required visual reference is not seen?
• What rotorcraft term refers to a rotorcraft whose rotors are normally engine-driven for takeoff, hovering, and landing, and whose propulsion usually consists of conventional propellers independent of the rotor system?
• Category II Operations refer to:
• What term describes a heavier-than-air aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces and whose free flight does not depend principally on an engine?
• What area is established to contain activities which if not conducted in a controlled environment would be hazardous to nonparticipating aircraft?
• ETOPS type design approval obtained without gaining non-ETOPS service experience is called what?
• Who approves the Configuration, Maintenance, and Procedures (CMP) Document?
• Light-Sport Aircraft excludes aircraft that are helicopters or powered-lift aircraft from its definition.
• Extended Over-Water Operation is defined as which conditions?
• What does EFV stand for in aviation visibility terms?
• Which term describes a hobbyist rocket with a total impulse under the threshold and altitude limit?
• Which term covers interstate, overseas, or foreign air transportation or the transportation of mail by aircraft?
• Non-dimensional coefficients used to quantify aerodynamic forces and moments are known as?
• What is the FAA-approved document that contains minimum configuration, operating, and maintenance requirements, hardware life-limits, and MMEL constraints necessary for an airplane-engine combination to meet ETOPS type design approval requirements?
• The term Maximum Engine Overtorque applies to which engine types?
• Who is the head of the Federal Aviation Administration or the person to whom authority has been delegated in the matter concerned?
• Threshold lights may protrude above the clearway plane if their height above the end of the runway is 26 inches or less and if they are located where?
• Which term describes a rotorcraft flight condition in which the lifting rotor is driven entirely by action of the air when the rotorcraft is in motion?
• What term describes the average forward horizontal distance from the cockpit at which prominent unlighted objects may be seen and identified by day and prominent lighted objects may be seen and identified by night?
• Which term denotes the engine-driven propulsion machinery of a heavier-than-air aircraft, excluding the propellers themselves?
• Which device is a replica of a specific type; or make, model, and series aircraft cockpit, including required equipment and a visual system, and provides motion cues and full range of capabilities for a specific FFS qualification level?
• Which rotorcraft type has rotors that rotate by air rather than being engine-driven after start?
• Which term is defined as the indicated airspeed of an aircraft corrected for position and instrument error?
• Which standard defines the performance requirements for a Flight Training Device (FTD) qualification?
• Which area is established to inform pilots of high-volume pilot training or unusual aeronautical activity?
• Which term describes operating over-the-top on an IFR flight plan when cleared to maintain VFR conditions?
• Light-Sport Aircraft propulsion must be a single, reciprocating engine.
• Category B rotorcraft are defined as:
• If it is doubtful that an operation is for compensation or hire, what test is used to determine this?
• Which term describes a lighter-than-air aircraft that is not engine driven, and sustains flight through buoyancy or heating?
• Which term best fits a device that can display attitude and altitude and may include automatic flight control features?
• Which statement correctly distinguishes Category A from Category B rotorcraft regarding engine failure?
• Civil Aircraft are:
• Which statement is not a feature of MOA?
• Which term describes a configuration where the forward wing span is smaller than the main wing span?
• Which term describes the carriage by aircraft of mail, or the carriage of persons or property for compensation or hire, in commerce between the United States and outside places?
• What is the maximum altitude at which, in standard atmosphere, it is possible to maintain, at a specified rotational speed, a specified power or a specified manifold pressure?
• An operation in which visibility conditions require an EFVS to be used in lieu of natural vision to perform an approach or landing is called what?
• Long-Range Communication System (LRCS) is a system that extends beyond line of sight and may include which technologies?
• Which term denotes the power delivered at the propeller shaft of an aircraft engine?
• Mach Number is defined as which of the following?
• Which term expresses the airspeed measured by the aircraft’s airspeed indicator before corrections for errors?
• Final Approach Fix (FAF) defines which of the following?
• Which term denotes the area designated for helicopter landing and takeoff?
• What does External-Load Attaching refer to?
• What term defines weather conditions below minimum for flight under visual flight rules?
• Which statement best defines Category A rotorcraft in the transport category?
• A MOA is established outside Class A airspace. Which option correctly describes the relation?
• For turbine engine powered airplanes certificated after August 29, 1959, the clearway beyond the runway must be at least how wide?
• What best describes an ETOPS Significant System?
• An engine used or intended to propel aircraft, including turbosuperchargers and accessories but not including propellers, is called a(n)?
• What term refers to a person assigned to perform duty in an aircraft during flight time?
• What is an External Load?
• Which statement best defines Equivalent Airspeed?
• Which imaging modalities may be used by EFVS?
• Which statement best describes the MOA in relation to IFR traffic?
• What is the standard reference atmospheric pressure used to determine Flight Levels?
• Which term describes the forward lifting surface of a canard configuration or tandem-wing configuration airplane?
• Flight Level 250 corresponds to how many feet?
• What term describes an airport at which an aircraft may land if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable?
• What term covers the carriage by aircraft of persons or property for compensation or hire, or the carriage of mail by aircraft, or the operation or navigation of aircraft in the conduct or furtherance of a business or vocation, in commerce between a place in the United States and any place outside thereof?
• Flight Level 255 corresponds to how many feet?
• For materials used to confine fire in a designated fire zone, what term describes the capacity to withstand heat at least as well as steel?
• What rotorcraft term describes a rotorcraft that, for its horizontal motion, depends principally on engine-driven rotors?
• What term refers to an authorization by air traffic control to proceed under specified traffic conditions within controlled airspace?
• For turbine engine powered airplanes certificated after September 30, 1958, but before August 30, 1959, the clearway extends no less than how far on either side of the extended centerline?
• What is the term for the time period that begins when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing?
• Which term means not susceptible to burning violently when ignited?
• Landing Gear Operating Speed is defined as the maximum speed at which the landing gear can be safely extended or retracted.
• Which statement correctly completes: Military Operations Area is the airspace established to separate IFR traffic from certain non-hazardous military activities?
• What term describes aircraft operating in the air or on an airport surface exclusive of loading ramps and parking areas?
• Major Repair is defined as what?
• MMEL stands for what?
• Which term means approved by the FAA or a delegated authority or under a bilateral agreement?
• What is the forward lifting surface of a canard configuration or tandem-wing configuration airplane called?
• What is acceptable evidence of physical fitness on a form prescribed by the Administrator?
• An Instrument Approach Procedure is defined as a series of predetermined maneuvers by reference to flight instruments with specified protection from obstacles and assurance of navigation signal reception capability, beginning from the initial approach fix to a point from which a landing can be completed or to a point where holding or en route obstacle clearance criteria apply.
• True statement: MOAs are established outside Class A airspace. Which option is correct?
• Intrastate Air Transportation is defined as the carriage by aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight wholly within the same state.
• An engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings, is called a(n)?
• A Light-Sport Aircraft must have a maximum takeoff weight not more than 1,320 pounds for aircraft not intended for operation on water, or not more than 1,430 pounds for aircraft intended for operation on water.
• Which rotorcraft type uses engine-driven rotors for horizontal flight, with propulsion usually via propellers independent of rotor system?
• Climbout Speed, with respect to rotorcraft, means a referenced airspeed which results in a flight path clear of the height-velocity envelope during initial climbout.
• Which term is the indicated airspeed of an aircraft corrected for position and instrument error?
• Maximum Speed For Stability Characteristics (Vfc / Mfc) is defined as which of the following?
• Manifold Pressure is typically expressed in which unit?
• What term denotes a level of constant atmospheric pressure related to 29.92 inches of mercury, expressed as hundreds of feet?
• Which term refers to a person or organization engaged in air transportation by leasing aircraft?
• What term describes a device using an internal mechanism to show visually or aurally the attitude, altitude, or operation of an aircraft or aircraft part, including electronic devices for automatically controlling an aircraft in flight?
• For certificating light-sport aircraft, what term describes an industry-developed consensus standard that applies to aircraft design, production, and airworthiness?
• What is the average forward horizontal distance at which topographical objects may be clearly distinguished and identified by day or night using an EFV?
• A kite is defined as a framework, covered with paper, cloth, metal or other material, intended to be flown at the end of a rope or cable, and having as its only support the force of the wind moving past its surfaces.
• Large Aircraft are aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight.
• Which statement best describes Major Alteration?
• Which term describes the area used for landing and takeoff with its buildings and facilities?
• The term for airspace established outside Class A to separate non-hazardous military activities from IFR traffic and to identify for VFR traffic where these activities are conducted is what?
• A device used for flight in the air is defined as which term?
• Which term describes a method of navigation that permits aircraft operation on any desired flight path?
• What is the term for the speed of the airplane that exists at the end of the takeoff path in the en route configuration with one engine inoperative?
• Major Alteration is defined as what?
• Which activities are included in Maintenance?
• Which airspace classes are included in controlled airspace?
• Which term means an unmanned rocket that: (1) is propelled by a motor or motors having a combined total impulse of 889,600 Newton-seconds (200,000 pound-seconds) or less; and (2) Cannot reach an altitude greater than 150 kilometers above the earth's surface?
• Which term refers to the forward wing of a canard configuration and may be fixed, movable, or variable geometry surface with or without control surfaces?
• MOA is an acronym for which of the following?
• What is the term for the highest speed permissible with wing flaps in a prescribed extended position?
• Which statement correctly relates Category II and Category III operations?
• What is the term for the maximum in-flight power or thrust setting identified in the performance data, used for a go-around?
• Which term refers to the power delivered at the main drive or main output of an aircraft engine?
• Which term describes a configuration in which the forward wing's span is substantially less than that of the main wing?
• A device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air is called a(n)?
• What does the acronym FSTD stand for?