UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
With respect to the certification of airmen, which is a category of aircraft? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Airplane, rotorcraft, glider, lighter-than-air.
With respect to the certification of airmen, which is a class of aircraft? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Single-engine land and sea, multiengine land and sea.
With respect to the certification of aircraft, which is a category of aircraft? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Normal, utility, acrobatic.
With respect to the certification of aircraft, which is a class of aircraft? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Airplane, rotorcraft, glider, balloon.
The definition of nighttime is? - CORRECT ANSWER - The time between the end of
evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight.
Preventive maintenance has been performed on an aircraft. What paperwork is required? -
CORRECT ANSWER - The signature, certificate number, and kind of certificate held by
the person approving the work and a description of the work must be entered in the aircraft
maintenance records.
Which operation would be described as preventive maintenance? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 1. Servicing landing gear wheel bearings.
2. Replenishing hydraulic fluid.
What document(s) must be in your personal possession or readily accessible in the aircraft while
operating as pilot in command of an aircraft? - CORRECT ANSWER - An appropriate
pilot certificate and an appropriate current medical certificate if required.
,When must a current certification be in the pilot's personal possession? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Anytime when acting as a pilot in command or as a required crewmember.
A recreational or private pilot acting as pilot in command, or in any other capacity as a required
pilot flight crewmember, must have in their personal possession while aboard the aircraft a
current? - CORRECT ANSWER - Medical certificate if required and an appropriate pilot
certificate.
Each person who holds a pilot certificate or a medical certificate shall present it for inspection
upon the request of the Administrator, the National Transportation Safety Board, or any? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Federal, state, or local law enforcement officer.
A Third-Class Medical Certificate is issued to a 36-year-old pilot on August 10, this year. To
exercise the privileges of a Private Pilot Certificate, the medical certification will be valid until
midnight on? - CORRECT ANSWER - August 31, 5 years later.
A Third-Class Medical Certificate is issued to a 51-year-old pilot on May 3, this year. To
exercise the privileges of a Private Pilot Certificate, the medical certificate will be valid until
midnight on? - CORRECT ANSWER - May 31, 2 years later.
For private pilot operations, a Second-Class Medical Certificate issued to a 42-year-old pilot on
July 15, this year, will expire at midnight on? - CORRECT ANSWER - July 31, 2 years
later.
For private pilot operations, a First-Class Medical Certificate issued to a 23-year-old pilot on
October 21, this year, will expire at midnight on? - CORRECT ANSWER - October 31, 5
years later.
The pilot in command is required to hold a type rating in which aircraft? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Aircraft having a gross weight of more than 12,500 pounds.
, What is the definition of a high-performance airplane? - CORRECT ANSWER - An
airplane with an engine of more than 200 horsepower.
Before a person holding a private pilot certificate may act as a pilot in command of a high-
performance airplane, that person must have? - CORRECT ANSWER - Received ground
and flight instruction from an authorized flight instructor who then endorses that person's
logbook.
In order to act as pilot in command of a high-performance airplane, a pilot must have? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Received and logged ground and flight instruction in an airplane
that has more than 200 horsepower.
To act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers, a pilot must show by logbook
endorsement the satisfactory completion of a flight review or completion of a pilot proficiency
check within the preceding? - CORRECT ANSWER - 24 calendar months.
If recency of experience requirements for night flight are not met and official sunset is 1830, the
latest time passengers may be carried is? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1929
To act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers, the pilot must have made at least
three takeoffs and three landings in an aircraft of the same category, class, and if a type rating is
required, of the same type, within the preceding? - CORRECT ANSWER - 90 days
To act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers, the pilot must have made three
takeoffs and three landings within the preceding 90 days in an aircraft of the same? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Category, class, and type, if a type rating is required.
The takeoffs and landings required to meet the recency of experience requirements for carrying
passengers in a tailwheel airplane? - CORRECT ANSWER - Must be to a full stop.
The three takeoffs and landings that are required to act as a pilot in command at night must be
done during the time period from? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1 hour after sunset to 1 hour
before sunrise.