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Private Pilot FAA Knowledge Test > Aviation Weather Services > Flashcards

Aviation Weather Services Flashcards

(30 cards)

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To get a compete weather briefing for the planned fight, the pilot should request

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a standard briefing

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Which type weather briefing should a pilot request, when departing within the hour, if no preliminary weather information has been received?

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Standard briefing

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Which type of weather briefing should a pilot request to supplement mass disseminated data?

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An abbreviated briefing

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A weather briefing that is provided when teh information requested is 6 or more hours in advnce of the proposed departure time is

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an outlook briefing

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What should pilots state initially when telephoning a weather briefing facility for preflight weather information

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Identify themselves a pilots

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What should pilots state initially when telephoning a weater briefing facility for preflight weather information?

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The intended route of flight and destination

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When telephoning a weather briefing facility for preflight weather information pilots should state

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the aircraft identification or the pilots name

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When tekephoning a weather briefing facility for preflight weather information, pilots should state

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whether they intend to fly VFR only

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To update a previous weather briefing, a pilot should request

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an abbreviated briefing

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When requesting weather information for the following morning, a pilot should request

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an outlook briefing

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For aviation purposes, ceiling is defined as teh height above the Earth’s surface fo the

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lowest broken or overcast layer or vertical visibility into an obscuration

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To best determine general forcast weather conditions over several states, the pilot shoudl refer to

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Aviation Area Forcasts

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To determine the freezing level and areas of probable icing aloft, the pilot should refer tothe

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Inflight Aviation Weather Advisories

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The section of the Area Forcast entitled VFR CLDS/WX contains a general description of

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clouds and weather which cover an area greater than 3,000 square miles and is significant to VFR flight operations

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From which primary source should information be obtained regarding expected weather at the estimated time of arrival if your destination has no Terminal Forcast?

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Area Forcast

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Of what value is Weather Depiction Chart to the pilot?

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For determining general weather conditions on which to base flight planning

17 Q

What does the heavy dashed line that forms a large rectangular box on a Radar Summary Chart refer to?

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Severe weather watch area

18 Q

What information is provided by the Radar Summary Chart that is not shown on other weather charts?

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Lines and cells of hazerdous thunderstorms

19 Q

Radar weather reports are of special interet to pilots because they include

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location of precipitation along with tupe intensity and cell movement of precipitation

20 Q

How should contact be established with an En Route Fligth Advisor Service (EFAS) statin, and what service would be expected?

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Call FLight Watch on 122.0 for information reagrding actual weather and thunderstorm activity along proposed route

21 Q

What service shoudl a pilot normally expect from an En Route Flight Advisory Servide (EFAS) station?

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Actual weather information and thunderstorm activity along the route

22 Q

Below Fl 180, en route weaterh advisories should be obtained from an FSS on

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122.0 MHz

23 Q

When the term “lighy and variable” is used in referecne to Winds Aloft Forecast, teh coded group and windspeed is

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9900 and less than 5 knots

24 Q

What values are used for Winds Aloft Forecasts?

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True direction and knots

25 How are Significant Weather Prognostic Charts best used by a pilot? For determining areas to avoid (freezing levels and turbulence) 26 SIGMETs are issued as a waring of weather conditins hazardous to which aircraft? All aircraft 27 AIRMETs are advisories of sinificant weather phenomena but of lower intensities than SIGMETs and are intended for dissemination to all pilots 28 Which in flight advisory would contain information on sever icing not associated with thunderstorms SIGMET 29 What information is contained in a CONVECTIVE SIGMET? Tornadoes, embedded thunderstorms, and hail 3/4 inch or greater in diameter 30 What is indicated when a current CONVECTIVE SIGMET forcasts thunderstorms? Thunderstorms obsucred by massive cloud layers Private Pilot FAA Knowledge Test flashcards Decks in class (14) # Cards

• Airplanes And Aerodynamics 40
• Airplane Instruments, Engines, and Systems 71
• Airports, Air Traffic Control, and Airspace 94
• Federal Aviation Regulations 4
• Aeromedical Factors and Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM) 34
• Aviation Weather 56
• Navigation: Charts and Publications 16
• Cross Country Flight Planning 17
• Navigation Systems 8
• A Private Pilot Practice Test 37
• Federal Aviation Regulations 195
• Airplane Performance and Weight and Balance 11
• Aviation Weather Services 30
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