Private Pilot Oral Questions Thread

Hootie

Hootie

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I'm one of the newbie unjaded who actually enjoys instructing (except for erratic pay) so for the sake of profesional development I thought we could string together a list of good oral questions we know or got asked for our ppl checkride that we could pass along to our primary students. I only have about 250 hours of duel given so I have plenty to learn and wouldn't mind learning a few new tricks.

Getting started (Im unfortunately not very creative so.....)

Q: What is the fuel requirement for night VFR?
A: Fly to the intended destination then there after at cruise power for 45 minutes.

Q: Lets say you ripped the carb heat handle right out of the dash, how could you counteract the increase in warm air circulationg the engine?
A: Lean the mixture.
 
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Q: Lets say you ripped the carb heat handle right out of the dash, how could you counteract the increase in warm air circulationg the engine?


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SBE, you wanna handle this one?
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I'm one of the newbie unjaded who actually enjoys instructing. . .

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That's a good thing!! I'm loving life - even when you have a week of not flying at all because of the weather (like last week
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You only hate it when you listen to the haters and let them convince you that life sucks.
 
Q. On your VFR sectional chart, what do the large numbers centered in each sector tell you?

A. The MSL height of the tallest obstacle in each sector.
 
Maximum elevation figures? I thought they were the highest obstacle rounded up to the nearest hundred... then + 200' since you can have unreported obstructions less than 200' high.
 
You gotta read the chart Ed
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While that may be about what it works out to, the chart says:

ATTENTION
THIS CHART CONTAINS MAXIMUM ELEVATION FIGURES (MEF).
The Maximum Elevation Figures shown in quadrangles bounded by ticked
lines of latitude and longitude are represented in THOUSANDS and
HUNDREDS of feet above mean sea level. The MEF is based on
information available concerning the highest know feature in each
quadrangle, including terrain and obstructions (trees, towers, antennas, etc.).


Now I only am aware of this little detail because another CFI student who just had their checkride a day or two before mine had this asked, and the examiner, after saying he was wrong, told him to simply read the chart.

HTH,
Josh
 
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You gotta read the chart Ed
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While that may be about what it works out to, the chart says:

ATTENTION
THIS CHART CONTAINS MAXIMUM ELEVATION FIGURES (MEF).
The Maximum Elevation Figures shown in quadrangles bounded by ticked
lines of latitude and longitude are represented in THOUSANDS and
HUNDREDS of feet above mean sea level. The MEF is based on
information available concerning the highest know feature in each
quadrangle, including terrain and obstructions (trees, towers, antennas, etc.).


Now I only am aware of this little detail because another CFI student who just had their checkride a day or two before mine had this asked, and the examiner, after saying he was wrong, told him to simply read the chart.

HTH,
Josh

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maximum elevation figure

Definition: (DOD, NATO) A figure, shown in each quadrangle bounded by ticked graticule lines on aeronautical charts, which represents the height in thousands and hundreds of feet, above mean sea level, of the highest known natural or manmade feature in that quadrangle, plus suitable factors to allow for inaccuracy and incompleteness of the topographical heighting information.

I found this on the below site. I am pretty sure Ed is right, a certain amount is added to the MEF. I seem to remember 200 feet, but not sure...

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/glossary/m/bldef03870.htm

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The MEF is based on information available concerning the highest know feature in each quadrangle

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I'll bet you a slurpee I'm right
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; the MEF is based on the highest known feature but that does not mean the MEF is the height of that object.
 
explain the steps you would take if you were flying a rented *insert name of plane here* and when preflighting, you discovered that the anticollision lights weren't functioning properly.
 
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explain the steps you would take if you were flying a rented *insert name of plane here* and when preflighting, you discovered that the anticollision lights weren't functioning properly.

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explain the steps you would take if you were flying a rented 1946 Aeronca Champ and when preflighting, you discovered that the anticollision lights weren't functioning properly.
 
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