ASTB-E Exam Questions and Answers
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Engine failure while hovering - ✔✔apply collective pitch
Helicopter foot pedals - ✔✔Increase/decrease thrust to neutralize torque
Lubber's Line - ✔✔indicates fore and aft line of a ship
ebb tide - ✔✔the tide falling after high tide
Apollo 11 - ✔✔1969 moon landing with Edwin Aldrin Jr., Michael Collins, and Neil
Armstrong
Headwind in takeoff - ✔✔decrease takeoff run, increase angle of climb
Tailwind in takeoff - ✔✔increase takeoff run, decrease angle of climb
Shallower glide angle - ✔✔lower wings
humid, warm air - ✔✔lighter air
Long and skinny wings - ✔✔high aspect ratio
short and stubby wings - ✔✔low aspect ratio
wing load - ✔✔ratio of wing surface area to aircraft weight
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sonic boom cause - ✔✔abrupt change in pressure across the shockwave
Mercury then Gemini then Apollo - ✔✔space program in chronological order
Alan Shepherd - ✔✔first American in space
Jon Glen - ✔✔US marine in 149 combat missions, first to fly supersonic across US, and
the first American to orbit Earth
Pioneer 10 - ✔✔first American spacecraft to explore the outer solar system
Ed White - ✔✔First american to walk in space
Highjacking transponder - ✔✔7500
Loss of Communication transponder - ✔✔7600
emergency transponder - ✔✔7700
Military flight or interceptor transponder - ✔✔7777
Class A airspace - ✔✔18,000 ft MSL to FL600
Class B Airspace - ✔✔surface to 10,000 ft MSL, surrounds all major airports, 250 knot
speed limit
Class C airspace - ✔✔surface to 4,000 AGL, surrounds busy airports, speed restricted to
200 knots below 2500 ft
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Class D airspace - ✔✔surface to 2,500 ft AGL, surrounds airports with an operational
control tower
Class G airspace - ✔✔surface to 700-1200 ft AGL
VASI (visual approach slope indicator) - ✔✔Red=too low, white=too high, green=on
slope, alternating red/white= on slope
PAPI (precision approach path finders) - ✔✔red=too low, white=too high
Less rate of climb in a helicopter - ✔✔higher density altitude
capstan - ✔✔apparatus used for hoisting weights consisting of a vertical spool shaped
cylinder
Nimbus cloud - ✔✔rain-bearing cloud
alto cloud - ✔✔5,000-20,000 feet
cumulus clouds - ✔✔generally low, look like cottonballs
stratus clouds - ✔✔look like light gray blanket
cirrus clouds - ✔✔very high, white curls, fibrous
windward - ✔✔toward wind
leeward - ✔✔downwind
cumulus stage of thunderstorm - ✔✔warm air rises in cumulus clouds
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