ATSC 113 Flying Exam Questions and Answers Latest

ATSC 113 Flying Exam Questions and Answers Latest CAVOK - Answer-Ceiling and visibility are OK vertical visability - Answer-"visability looking straight down; when there is no definite ceiling, use this instead of ceiling height" slant visibility - Answer-visability looking at a nearly verticle angle visability - Answer-"measure of how far away you can see a black object during daytime, or how far away you can see a bright light at night" transmissometers - Answer-measure visability; shine incident light beam across a known path length and measure how much dimmer the received light is different ways to measure visability? - Answer-"transmissometers, measure light scatter (forward scatter, back scatter, side scatter), " runway visual range - Answer-how far ahead a pilot can see horizontally along a runway centerline how to determine vertical visibility? - Answer-1. distance observer can see vertically into an indefinite ceiling 2. height corresponding to the top of a ceiling light projector beam 3. height at which a ciling balloon compleatly disappears in an indefinite ceiling 4. height deterined by the sensor algorithm at automated stations atmospheric stability - Answer-whether the air will become or stay turbulent or will become or stay non-turbulent laminar - Answer-non-turbulent - smooth flow of air turbulence - Answer-range that includes: - small eddies caused by air flow - medium eddies associated will warm rising air - large instability associated with thunderstorms static stability - Answer-"depends on temperature layering in the atmostphere, not on the wind --> if the cool (heavy) air is under the warm air" statically unstable - Answer-"if warm air is under the cooler denser air, then the cooler air sinks which causes eddies" air parel - Answer-vertically moving blobs of air adiabatic lapse rate - Answer-temperature change for air parcels as they move - 9.8 degrees C/km --> rising air cools about 10 degrees C for each 1 km that it rises