CAMATA EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔What cabin altitude restriction may be used for chest injury? - ✔✔Ground to 2,000 ft
ASL
✔✔What are four forces of flight? - ✔✔Lift, weight, thrust, drag
✔✔What controls roll/pitch/yaw? - ✔✔Ailerons control roll, elevator controls pitch,
rudder controls yaw
✔✔What does Bernoulli's theorem state? - ✔✔Increased velocity causes decreased
pressure
✔✔What happens with excessive angle of attack? - ✔✔Stall
✔✔What do flaps do? - ✔✔Decrease stall speed, allow slower landing, shorten takeoff
run, short runway operations
✔✔Who regulates aviation in Canada? - ✔✔Transport Canada
✔✔What are CARs? - ✔✔Canadian Aviation Regulations
✔✔What is an AOC? - ✔✔Certificate required to operate aircraft for hire
✔✔What is the clean aircraft concept? - ✔✔No frost/snow/ice on critical surfaces before
takeoff
✔✔What is VFR fuel reserve? - ✔✔Destination plus 45 minutes
✔✔What is IFR fuel requirement? - ✔✔Destination, approach, missed approach,
alternate, plus 45 minutes
, ✔✔What is SMS? - ✔✔Safety Management System; proactive risk management
✔✔When should pilots receive patient info? - ✔✔After Go/No-Go decision
✔✔How approach running prop aircraft? - ✔✔From rear, with permission, in pilot view
✔✔How approach running jet aircraft? - ✔✔From front, in pilot view
✔✔When approach helicopter? - ✔✔Only when directed or rotors shut down
✔✔Why secure equipment in cabin? - ✔✔It can become a missile in turbulence
✔✔Who gets oxygen first in rapid decompression? - ✔✔Air medical personnel, then
patient/passengers
✔✔What do you do for onboard fire? - ✔✔Notify pilot, turn off oxygen, smother/use
extinguisher if directed
✔✔When inflate life vest during ditching? - ✔✔After exiting aircraft
✔✔What are post-crash survival priorities? - ✔✔First Aid, Fire, Shelter, Signals,
Water/Food
✔✔What information does SAR need? - ✔✔POB/condition, origin/pickup/destination,
fuel, ETA, last radio contact, survival gear
✔✔What flare pattern is used for signalling? - ✔✔Triangle, about 60 ft apart
✔✔How much food in survival kit? - ✔✔10,000 calories per person
✔✔What does IM SAFE stand for? - ✔✔Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue,
Exercise
✔✔Are there federal fitness requirements for air medical personnel? - ✔✔No
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 1? - ✔✔Commercial airline licensed personnel
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 2? - ✔✔Flight navigator, flight engineer, ATC
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 3? - ✔✔Student/private/balloon/gyroplane pilots
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 4? - ✔✔Ultralight/glider/recreational pilots
SET A+
✔✔What cabin altitude restriction may be used for chest injury? - ✔✔Ground to 2,000 ft
ASL
✔✔What are four forces of flight? - ✔✔Lift, weight, thrust, drag
✔✔What controls roll/pitch/yaw? - ✔✔Ailerons control roll, elevator controls pitch,
rudder controls yaw
✔✔What does Bernoulli's theorem state? - ✔✔Increased velocity causes decreased
pressure
✔✔What happens with excessive angle of attack? - ✔✔Stall
✔✔What do flaps do? - ✔✔Decrease stall speed, allow slower landing, shorten takeoff
run, short runway operations
✔✔Who regulates aviation in Canada? - ✔✔Transport Canada
✔✔What are CARs? - ✔✔Canadian Aviation Regulations
✔✔What is an AOC? - ✔✔Certificate required to operate aircraft for hire
✔✔What is the clean aircraft concept? - ✔✔No frost/snow/ice on critical surfaces before
takeoff
✔✔What is VFR fuel reserve? - ✔✔Destination plus 45 minutes
✔✔What is IFR fuel requirement? - ✔✔Destination, approach, missed approach,
alternate, plus 45 minutes
, ✔✔What is SMS? - ✔✔Safety Management System; proactive risk management
✔✔When should pilots receive patient info? - ✔✔After Go/No-Go decision
✔✔How approach running prop aircraft? - ✔✔From rear, with permission, in pilot view
✔✔How approach running jet aircraft? - ✔✔From front, in pilot view
✔✔When approach helicopter? - ✔✔Only when directed or rotors shut down
✔✔Why secure equipment in cabin? - ✔✔It can become a missile in turbulence
✔✔Who gets oxygen first in rapid decompression? - ✔✔Air medical personnel, then
patient/passengers
✔✔What do you do for onboard fire? - ✔✔Notify pilot, turn off oxygen, smother/use
extinguisher if directed
✔✔When inflate life vest during ditching? - ✔✔After exiting aircraft
✔✔What are post-crash survival priorities? - ✔✔First Aid, Fire, Shelter, Signals,
Water/Food
✔✔What information does SAR need? - ✔✔POB/condition, origin/pickup/destination,
fuel, ETA, last radio contact, survival gear
✔✔What flare pattern is used for signalling? - ✔✔Triangle, about 60 ft apart
✔✔How much food in survival kit? - ✔✔10,000 calories per person
✔✔What does IM SAFE stand for? - ✔✔Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue,
Exercise
✔✔Are there federal fitness requirements for air medical personnel? - ✔✔No
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 1? - ✔✔Commercial airline licensed personnel
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 2? - ✔✔Flight navigator, flight engineer, ATC
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 3? - ✔✔Student/private/balloon/gyroplane pilots
✔✔What is TC Medical Category 4? - ✔✔Ultralight/glider/recreational pilots
