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What is a rhumb line? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a line on earth surface which has a constant angle to the
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meridian
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What is a great circle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Shortest line between two points on the surface of the earth
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What is a microburst? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A strong downburst from a CB, usually 4km in diameter.
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10 minutes on a meridian is equal to - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔10 nm
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How does thrust reverse work - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔redirection of air mass produced by the fan
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Whats it called when water vapour directly to ice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔resublimation
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4 phases of a jet engine - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔induction, compression, combustion, exhaustion
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What process takes place inside the carburettor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Fuel/Air mixing
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Ice directly to water vapour - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔sublimation
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, What is a sharklet - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A wingtip design reducing induced drag, smaller vortex
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What kind of line does a runway centreline have - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔dashed
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Runway edge lights turn yellow - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔for the last 600m
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If you have net performance you are clear of an obstacle by - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔35ft
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Types of fog - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔(Advection, radiation, frontal (front of a warm front super humid,
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evaporation)
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What is gross performance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the average performance expected of a fleet of aircraft
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if properly maintained and flown in accordance to the manual
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What kind of line does taxiway marking have - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔continuous yellow
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You see yellow lights near the runway centreline what does this indicate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔rapid exit
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taxiway
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Where is the strongest CAT in a jet stream - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Cold air side, below tropopause. To the
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left when looking downstream
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What is the gradient wind - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔blow around curved isobars
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TEMPO - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔temporary change to weather not lasting more than one hour or half the
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indicated period.
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