AIRT FINAL|VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS|RATED
AND GRADED A+ NEW UPDATE| 2026/2027
Percentage in which learning is visual and aural? - ANSWER✔ 75% Visual / 14% Aural
What are the class 3 Instructor upgrade requirements? - ANSWER✔ 3 solo & 3 flight test
recommends in which you taught at least 5hrs of the last 10hrs for those students and 100hrs
instructing time
Time alloted for PPL/CPL flight test NAV planning? - ANSWER✔ PPL=1hr / CPL=45min (excluding W&B
for the actual test flight)
Hour requirements for RPP? (Ground, Flight, Dual, XC, Solo) - ANSWER✔ Ground: 0hr / Flight: 25hrs /
Dual:15hrs / XC(dual): 2hrs / Solo: 5hrs
Wait time after blood donation? - ANSWER✔ 48hrs
Validity time of SPP? - ANSWER✔ 5yrs(60months)
First symptom of hypoxia? - ANSWER✔ Euphoria
What is hyperventilation and what are the first symptoms? - ANSWER✔ Lack of CO2 (Too much O2) /
Dizziness and tingling, pins and needles
Qualifications to teach IFR? - ANSWER✔ FI rating and/or holder of CPL or ATPL who has their
instrument rating and either instructor rating OR has 500hrs PIC with 100hrs in applicable group (10hrs
on type for group 1)
Rate of forgetting? - ANSWER✔ Best to review within 24-48hrs or retention lvl will be only 70%
If no review after 28days, retention will be ~40%
,Time required for review? - ANSWER✔ Initial training (50min) / 1st review at 2 days (15min) / 2nd
review at 7 days (10min) / 3rd review at 28 days (5min)
Who can supervise class4 instructors? - ANSWER✔ Class 1 or Class 2
Ground school and flight training requirements for class 4 instructor rating? - ANSWER✔ Ground
(25hrs) / Flight (30hrs) (5hrs towards instrument training)
Where does alcohol last the longest? - ANSWER✔ Inner ear (Effects can last up to 24hrs)
What are the legal requirements for drinking alcohol and flying? - ANSWER✔ 12hrs bottle to throttle
How long does it takes to remove 1ounce of alcohol? - ANSWER✔ ~3hrs
Class 1 Instructor rating upgrade requirements? - ANSWER✔ (1) AIRAT 80%
(2) 10 flight test recommendations(less than 3 partial/fail)
(3) 750hrs instruction hrs (600hrs towards licence)
What causes disorientation in whiteout conditions? - ANSWER✔ Blowing snow and obscrued horizon
causes lack of depth perception and poor distance judgement
When should you take into account age, gender ad cultural difference? - ANSWER✔ When planning a
lesson
In slow flight, in order to increase speed but retain a constant ROD, you must? - ANSWER✔ Reduce
AOA and reduce power (think about the power curve)
What should always be done with students prior to solo release? - ANSWER✔ Preflight briefing &
Postflight debriefing
, Who must authorize solo? - ANSWER✔ FI (If class 4, approval from supervisor class1 or class2)
What illusion might you experience when flying in IMC if the aircraft is in a turn and you turn your head
at the same time? - ANSWER✔ Coriolis illusion (feeling of tumbling)
How do you maiintain a perfect circle over the ground turning from upwind to downwind? What is the
associated illusion? - ANSWER✔ Reduce AOB / Illusion: Slipping
What illusions can you associate with blowing sow? - ANSWER✔ Unable to discern relative
movement (Feels like moving when stationary and vice versa)
What can cause disorientation in IMC? - ANSWER✔ No depth perception, obscured horizon, not
trusting your instruments
What occurs when thrust is below drag? - ANSWER✔ Nose up tendency
What effect does HZ have on depth perception? - ANSWER✔ Feels further away and could result in
high approach
(Opposite illusion on clear day - Low approach)
Student is saying a 30NM further away airport is only 10NM away. What could have possibly cause this
illusion? - ANSWER✔ Clear weather
Night rating requirements? - ANSWER✔ (1) Dual: 5hrs (2hrs XC)
(2) Solo: 5hrs (10 T/O+L/D)
(3) Instruments: 10hrs (5hrs can be sim)
How do you renew an expired instructor rating that has been expired for 6
months/20months/25months? - ANSWER✔ (1) <12m : Flight test (no recommendation letter rqd) OR
Recurrent training
(2) 12m<x<24m: Flight test WITH recommendation letter from Class 1
AND GRADED A+ NEW UPDATE| 2026/2027
Percentage in which learning is visual and aural? - ANSWER✔ 75% Visual / 14% Aural
What are the class 3 Instructor upgrade requirements? - ANSWER✔ 3 solo & 3 flight test
recommends in which you taught at least 5hrs of the last 10hrs for those students and 100hrs
instructing time
Time alloted for PPL/CPL flight test NAV planning? - ANSWER✔ PPL=1hr / CPL=45min (excluding W&B
for the actual test flight)
Hour requirements for RPP? (Ground, Flight, Dual, XC, Solo) - ANSWER✔ Ground: 0hr / Flight: 25hrs /
Dual:15hrs / XC(dual): 2hrs / Solo: 5hrs
Wait time after blood donation? - ANSWER✔ 48hrs
Validity time of SPP? - ANSWER✔ 5yrs(60months)
First symptom of hypoxia? - ANSWER✔ Euphoria
What is hyperventilation and what are the first symptoms? - ANSWER✔ Lack of CO2 (Too much O2) /
Dizziness and tingling, pins and needles
Qualifications to teach IFR? - ANSWER✔ FI rating and/or holder of CPL or ATPL who has their
instrument rating and either instructor rating OR has 500hrs PIC with 100hrs in applicable group (10hrs
on type for group 1)
Rate of forgetting? - ANSWER✔ Best to review within 24-48hrs or retention lvl will be only 70%
If no review after 28days, retention will be ~40%
,Time required for review? - ANSWER✔ Initial training (50min) / 1st review at 2 days (15min) / 2nd
review at 7 days (10min) / 3rd review at 28 days (5min)
Who can supervise class4 instructors? - ANSWER✔ Class 1 or Class 2
Ground school and flight training requirements for class 4 instructor rating? - ANSWER✔ Ground
(25hrs) / Flight (30hrs) (5hrs towards instrument training)
Where does alcohol last the longest? - ANSWER✔ Inner ear (Effects can last up to 24hrs)
What are the legal requirements for drinking alcohol and flying? - ANSWER✔ 12hrs bottle to throttle
How long does it takes to remove 1ounce of alcohol? - ANSWER✔ ~3hrs
Class 1 Instructor rating upgrade requirements? - ANSWER✔ (1) AIRAT 80%
(2) 10 flight test recommendations(less than 3 partial/fail)
(3) 750hrs instruction hrs (600hrs towards licence)
What causes disorientation in whiteout conditions? - ANSWER✔ Blowing snow and obscrued horizon
causes lack of depth perception and poor distance judgement
When should you take into account age, gender ad cultural difference? - ANSWER✔ When planning a
lesson
In slow flight, in order to increase speed but retain a constant ROD, you must? - ANSWER✔ Reduce
AOA and reduce power (think about the power curve)
What should always be done with students prior to solo release? - ANSWER✔ Preflight briefing &
Postflight debriefing
, Who must authorize solo? - ANSWER✔ FI (If class 4, approval from supervisor class1 or class2)
What illusion might you experience when flying in IMC if the aircraft is in a turn and you turn your head
at the same time? - ANSWER✔ Coriolis illusion (feeling of tumbling)
How do you maiintain a perfect circle over the ground turning from upwind to downwind? What is the
associated illusion? - ANSWER✔ Reduce AOB / Illusion: Slipping
What illusions can you associate with blowing sow? - ANSWER✔ Unable to discern relative
movement (Feels like moving when stationary and vice versa)
What can cause disorientation in IMC? - ANSWER✔ No depth perception, obscured horizon, not
trusting your instruments
What occurs when thrust is below drag? - ANSWER✔ Nose up tendency
What effect does HZ have on depth perception? - ANSWER✔ Feels further away and could result in
high approach
(Opposite illusion on clear day - Low approach)
Student is saying a 30NM further away airport is only 10NM away. What could have possibly cause this
illusion? - ANSWER✔ Clear weather
Night rating requirements? - ANSWER✔ (1) Dual: 5hrs (2hrs XC)
(2) Solo: 5hrs (10 T/O+L/D)
(3) Instruments: 10hrs (5hrs can be sim)
How do you renew an expired instructor rating that has been expired for 6
months/20months/25months? - ANSWER✔ (1) <12m : Flight test (no recommendation letter rqd) OR
Recurrent training
(2) 12m<x<24m: Flight test WITH recommendation letter from Class 1
