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1. An aircraft is at FL140 with an IAS of 210 and a true OAT of -5 °C. The wind component is -35 knots. When the aircraft is at 150 nm from a reporting point, ATC request the crew to lose 5 minutes by the time they get to the beacon. How much do they need to reduce IAS?

2. What is a line of equal magnetic variation?

3. What measurement is used to carry out alignment of an Inertial Navigation System?

4. During a low level flight 2 parallel roads are crossed at right angles by an aircraft. The time between these roads can be used to check the aircraft

5. You are on a heading of 105°C, deviation 3 E. WTD NDB (5211.3N 00705.0W) bears 013 R, CRK VOR (5150.4N 00829.7W) QDM is 211. What is your position? (Use Jeppesen E(LO)1)

6. On a Polar Stereographic map, a straight line is drawn from position A (70N 102W) to position B (80N 006E). The point of highest latitude along this line occurs at longitude 035 W. What is the initial straight-line track angle from A to B, measured at A?

 

 

7. Please refer to Annex A. What does symbol 3 represent?

8. On a chart, 49 nautical miles is represented by 7.0 centimetres. What is the scale?

9. Civil Twilight occurs between

10. The distance A to B is 90 nm in a straight line. You are 60 nm from A when you fix your position 4 nm to the left of track. What correction do you need to make to arrive at B?

11. The rhumb-line distance between points A (60° 00’N 002° 30’E) and B (60° 00’N 007° 30’W) is

12. An aircraft is flying TAS 180 knots and tracking 090°T. The W/V is 045/50. How far can the aircraft fly out from its base and return within 1 hour?

13. The orbit of the Earth round the Sun is elliptical. An ellipse has 2 foci. Which of the following is a correct statement?

14. Given: Magnetic heading 311° Drift is 10° left Relative bearing of NDB 270 What is the magnetic bearing of the NDB measured from the aircraft?

15. What is the maximum possible value of Dip Angle?

16. Track = 090 (T), TAS = 460 knots, W/V = 360 (T) / 100, Variation = 10 E, Deviation = -2. What is compass heading and groundspeed?

17. In an INS, what is the output of the E/W second-stage integrator?

18. In which IRS mode does gyro-compassing take place?

19. An aircraft at FL370 is required to commence descent at 120 NM from a VOR and to cross the facility at FL130. If the mean GS for the descent is 288 kt, the minimum rate of descent required is

20. You are on the 205 radial from the Shannon VOR (SHA, 5243N 00853W) and on the 317 radial from Cork VOR (CRK, 5150N 00830W). What is the aircraft position?

21. Given: Half way between two reporting points the navigation log gives the following information: TAS 360 kt W/V 330°/80 kt Compass heading 237° Deviation on this heading -5° Variation 19°W What is the average ground speed for this leg?

22. By what amount must you change your rate of descent given a 10 knot increase in headwind on a 3° glideslope?

23. At 1000 hours an aircraft is on the 310 radial from a VOR/DME, at 10 nautical miles range. At 1010 the radial and range are 040/10 nm. What is the aircraft’s track and groundspeed?

24. ATT mode of the Inertial Reference System (IRS) is a back-up mode providing

25. (For this question use Annex C) Complete line 5 of the ‘FLIGHT NAVIGATION LOG’, position ‘J’ to ‘K’. What is the HDG°(M) and ETA?

26. Alignment of INS and IRS equipments can take place in which of the following modes?

27. What is the highest latitude on the Earth at which the Sun can be vertically overhead?

28. You are on ILS 3-degree glideslope which passes over the runway threshold at 50 feet. Your DME range is 25 nm from the threshold. What is your height above the runway threshold elevation? (Use the 1 in 60 rule and 6000feet = 1 nautical mile)

29. A Rhumb line is

30. Your position is 5833N 17400W. You fly exactly 6 nm eastwards. What is your new position?

31. The FMC position is

32. When and where are IRS positions updated?during all phases of flight

33. An aircraft has a TAS of 300 knots and a safe endurance of 10 hours. If the wind component on the outbound leg is 50 knots head, what is the distance to the point of safe endurance?

34. What is the highest latitude listed below at which the sun will rise above the horizon and set every day?

35. Please refer to Appendix A. What is the symbol for an unlighted obstacle?

36. Given that: A is N55° E/W 000° B is N54° E 010°, If the average true course of the great circle is 100° T, the true course of the Rhumb Line at point A is?

37. The following waypoints are entered into an inertial navigation system (INS) WPT 1: 60N 30W WPT 2: 60N 20W WPT 3: 60N 10W The inertial navigation is connected to the automatic pilot on the route WP1 → WP2 → WP3. The track change on passing WPT 2 will be approximately

38. The circumference of the Earth is approximately

39. What does the sensor of an INS/IRS measure ?

40. Convergency on a Transverse Mercator chart is correct at

41. What is the mean true track and distance from the BAL VOR (5318N 00627W) to CFN NDB (5502N 00820W)? - (use E(LO)1)

42. What is at 5211N 00932W ? - (use E(LO)1)

43. Which of the following indicates an advisory airspace (ADA) boundary?

44. On a Lambert chart, the constant of the cone is .78585. What is the parallel of tangency?

45. A straight line is drawn on a North Polar Stereographic chart joining Point A (7000N 06000W) to Point B (7000N 06000E). What is the initial track direction (going eastwards) of the line at A ?

46. Course 040°T, TAS 120 kn, Wind speed = 30 knots. From which direction will the wind give the greatest drift?

47. You enter the start position of an INS from a ramp at 7019.2N 13946.3W but you incorrectly enter 13946.3E instead of W. You fly to 7019.2N 180E/W without updating the INS in flight. What longitude is indicated on your INS present position display?

48. Given: TAS=375 Trk=335 °T W/V=340 °T/50 What is heading and Groundspeed?

49. Please refer to Annex A. Which is the symbol for a VOR?

50. A Great Circle crosses the Equator at longitude 030°W. The direction of the GC at Equator is 035°T. An aircraft following this Great Circle will reach its highest latitude (N or S) at position