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AFAST/SIFT Exam Questions and
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attitude indicator - ✔✔Allows the aviator to control the aircraft by showing the attitude
of the aircraft in relation to the natural horizon? (originally called an artificial horizon
and later a gyro horizon)
pitot-static, compass, gyroscopic - ✔✔Flight instruments are grouped into three
systems?
altimeter - ✔✔An aneroid barometer that measures the absolute pressure of ambient air
and displays that absolute pressure in terms of feet or meters above a selected pressure
level?
indicated, absolute, true, pressure, density - ✔✔The five types of altitude?
indicated - ✔✔This altitude is as read on the dial with a current altimeter setting (sea
level)?
density - ✔✔Failure to calculate this altitude could be fatal?
pressure - ✔✔This altitude is the height measured above the 29.92-inches-of-mercury
pressure level?
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29.92 in. of mercury - ✔✔The standard altimeter setting?
absolute - ✔✔The altitude above the surface or terrain where the aircraft is flying, also
called above ground level (AGL)?
true - ✔✔The altitude above mean sea level (MSL)?
mechanical and inherent - ✔✔The two types of altimeter error?
radar altimeter - ✔✔This altimeter, known as the absolute altimeter, measures the
height of the aircraft above terrain by transmitting a radio signal to the ground, and
accurately measuring the time used by the signal in traveling from the aircraft to the
ground and returning?
airspeed indicator - ✔✔A differential pressure gauge that measures the dynamic
pressure of the air through which the aircraft is flying?
dynamic pressure - ✔✔Is the difference in ambient static air pressure and total, or ram,
pressure caused by motion of the aircraft through the air?
indicated, calibrated, equivalent, true - ✔✔What are the four types of airspeed?
indicated airspeed (IAS) - ✔✔This airspeed is shown on the dial of the instrument,
uncorrected for instrument or system errors?
calibrated airspeed (CAS) - ✔✔This is the airspeed that the aircraft is moving through
the air, which is found by correcting IAS for instrument and position errors?
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
AFAST/SIFT Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
attitude indicator - ✔✔Allows the aviator to control the aircraft by showing the attitude
of the aircraft in relation to the natural horizon? (originally called an artificial horizon
and later a gyro horizon)
pitot-static, compass, gyroscopic - ✔✔Flight instruments are grouped into three
systems?
altimeter - ✔✔An aneroid barometer that measures the absolute pressure of ambient air
and displays that absolute pressure in terms of feet or meters above a selected pressure
level?
indicated, absolute, true, pressure, density - ✔✔The five types of altitude?
indicated - ✔✔This altitude is as read on the dial with a current altimeter setting (sea
level)?
density - ✔✔Failure to calculate this altitude could be fatal?
pressure - ✔✔This altitude is the height measured above the 29.92-inches-of-mercury
pressure level?
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
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29.92 in. of mercury - ✔✔The standard altimeter setting?
absolute - ✔✔The altitude above the surface or terrain where the aircraft is flying, also
called above ground level (AGL)?
true - ✔✔The altitude above mean sea level (MSL)?
mechanical and inherent - ✔✔The two types of altimeter error?
radar altimeter - ✔✔This altimeter, known as the absolute altimeter, measures the
height of the aircraft above terrain by transmitting a radio signal to the ground, and
accurately measuring the time used by the signal in traveling from the aircraft to the
ground and returning?
airspeed indicator - ✔✔A differential pressure gauge that measures the dynamic
pressure of the air through which the aircraft is flying?
dynamic pressure - ✔✔Is the difference in ambient static air pressure and total, or ram,
pressure caused by motion of the aircraft through the air?
indicated, calibrated, equivalent, true - ✔✔What are the four types of airspeed?
indicated airspeed (IAS) - ✔✔This airspeed is shown on the dial of the instrument,
uncorrected for instrument or system errors?
calibrated airspeed (CAS) - ✔✔This is the airspeed that the aircraft is moving through
the air, which is found by correcting IAS for instrument and position errors?
Katelyn Whitman© 2025, All Rights Reserved.
