AIR FORCE OFFICER QUALIFYING TEST UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Ailerons
Answer:
Located on the trailing edge of the wing to provide roll control
Question:
2. Attitude
Answer:
The aircrafts orientation relative to Earth's horizon
Question:
3. Cowling
Answer:
Metal covering of an airplane engine, helps with cooling
Question:
4. Axes of Flight (Rotation)
Answer:
Pitch, Roll, Yaw
Question:
5. Engine Instruments
Answer:
Tachometer Ammeter (battery), Engine Oil Pressure, Manifold Pressure, Engine Pressure Ratio, Fuel
Pressure, Exhaust Gas Temperature Gauge
Question:
6. How does lower density air influence aircraft?
Answer:
Reduces power, thrust, and lift
Question:
7. Propeller
Answer:
Generates Thrust
Question:
8. What does the rudder do?
Answer:
Moves the airplane nose left and right (Yaw)
,Question:
9. What does the elevator do on an aircraft?
Answer:
Moves airplane nose up and down? (Pitch)
Question:
10. How does atmospheric pressure influence aircraft?
Answer:
As altitude increases, atmospheric pressure decreases reducing thrust, lift, and power
Question:
11. Air Density
Answer:
decreases with altitude
Question:
12. High Temperature
Answer:
Decreases Air Density
Question:
13. The four aerodynamic forces acting on an airplane are
Answer:
Lift, Weight (Gravity), Thrust, Drag
Question:
14. When extended or down, wing flaps provide
Answer:
Greater lift and more drag
Question:
15. If the elevator trim tabs on the airplane are lowered, the plane will tend to
Answer:
Nose Up
Question:
16. an elephant cannot
Answer:
jump
Question:
17. An oxide is formed when an element is chemically combined with what type of specific element
Answer:
Oxygen
, Question:
18. Under normal VFR conditions how much of a pilots attention should be focused on cockpit instruments
Answer:
No more than 10%
Question:
19. An aircraft instructed to land on Rwy 23L would establish an approach heading of
Answer:
230 degress
Question:
20. Which two flight controls are used to control the rate of a turn
Answer:
Elevator and Ailerons
Question:
21. composite number
Answer:
A whole number greater than 1 that has more than two factors.
Question:
22. Newton's Laws of Motion 1
Answer:
Body at rest remains at rest
Question:
23. Moving the control stick to the right or left affects which aircraft controls
Answer:
Ailerons
Question:
24. Newton's Laws of Motion 2
Answer:
Constant force creates acceleration proportional to mass
Question:
25. Climb Types
Answer:
Normal Best rate of climb (Vy) Best angle of climb (Vx)
Question:
26. The control system used primarily to relieve the pilot from having to maintain constant pressure on the
flight controls is the
Answer:
Trim Systems
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Ailerons
Answer:
Located on the trailing edge of the wing to provide roll control
Question:
2. Attitude
Answer:
The aircrafts orientation relative to Earth's horizon
Question:
3. Cowling
Answer:
Metal covering of an airplane engine, helps with cooling
Question:
4. Axes of Flight (Rotation)
Answer:
Pitch, Roll, Yaw
Question:
5. Engine Instruments
Answer:
Tachometer Ammeter (battery), Engine Oil Pressure, Manifold Pressure, Engine Pressure Ratio, Fuel
Pressure, Exhaust Gas Temperature Gauge
Question:
6. How does lower density air influence aircraft?
Answer:
Reduces power, thrust, and lift
Question:
7. Propeller
Answer:
Generates Thrust
Question:
8. What does the rudder do?
Answer:
Moves the airplane nose left and right (Yaw)
,Question:
9. What does the elevator do on an aircraft?
Answer:
Moves airplane nose up and down? (Pitch)
Question:
10. How does atmospheric pressure influence aircraft?
Answer:
As altitude increases, atmospheric pressure decreases reducing thrust, lift, and power
Question:
11. Air Density
Answer:
decreases with altitude
Question:
12. High Temperature
Answer:
Decreases Air Density
Question:
13. The four aerodynamic forces acting on an airplane are
Answer:
Lift, Weight (Gravity), Thrust, Drag
Question:
14. When extended or down, wing flaps provide
Answer:
Greater lift and more drag
Question:
15. If the elevator trim tabs on the airplane are lowered, the plane will tend to
Answer:
Nose Up
Question:
16. an elephant cannot
Answer:
jump
Question:
17. An oxide is formed when an element is chemically combined with what type of specific element
Answer:
Oxygen
, Question:
18. Under normal VFR conditions how much of a pilots attention should be focused on cockpit instruments
Answer:
No more than 10%
Question:
19. An aircraft instructed to land on Rwy 23L would establish an approach heading of
Answer:
230 degress
Question:
20. Which two flight controls are used to control the rate of a turn
Answer:
Elevator and Ailerons
Question:
21. composite number
Answer:
A whole number greater than 1 that has more than two factors.
Question:
22. Newton's Laws of Motion 1
Answer:
Body at rest remains at rest
Question:
23. Moving the control stick to the right or left affects which aircraft controls
Answer:
Ailerons
Question:
24. Newton's Laws of Motion 2
Answer:
Constant force creates acceleration proportional to mass
Question:
25. Climb Types
Answer:
Normal Best rate of climb (Vy) Best angle of climb (Vx)
Question:
26. The control system used primarily to relieve the pilot from having to maintain constant pressure on the
flight controls is the
Answer:
Trim Systems