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A&P - Airframe Oral Exam (Jeppesen)
EXAM Questions and Answers (Verified
Answers) (Latest Update 2025) UPDATE!!
What is the function of a vortex generator? - (ANSWER)It is designed to delay of
prevent separation of the boundary layer.
What are the three axes of an airplane? - (ANSWER)Longitudinal, lateral, and
vertical.
What are the three primary flight controls of an aircraft? - (ANSWER)The ailerons,
elevators, and rudder.
Name several secondary flight controls and describe their general purpose? -
(ANSWER)Secondary flight controls consist of various types of trim tabs such as
balance tabs, anti-servo and servo tabs, and spring tabs. Their function is to assist
the pilot in moving the controls and to trim the aircraft to fly hands-off.
Name several types of auxiliary flight controls and describe their general purpose?
- (ANSWER)The auxiliary flight controls consist of the various high-lift devices
used during low-speed flight such as leading and trailing edge flaps, slats, slots,
speed brakes, etc.
What is a servo trim tab? - (ANSWER)It is an auxiliary control, positioned by the
movement of a primary control and designed to create aerodynamic forces to
assist in moving a control surface.
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What is a spring tab? - (ANSWER)It is an auxiliary control designed to aid the
movement of a primary control at high speeds when control forces become too
high.
What is a balance trim tab? - (ANSWER)It is an auxiliary control designed to
create aerodynamic forces to assist in moving a control surface. The tab is
positioned by a control rod connected to the fixed surface on the same side as the
horn an the tab.
What are four most common types of high lift devices? - (ANSWER)Leading and
trailing edge flaps, slats, and slots.
Describe some of the tools used to check control surface travel? - (ANSWER)A
universal propeller protractor or specal control surface protractor.
Name three mechanical methods by which flight control systems may be
actuated. - (ANSWER)Cables, push-pull rods, and torque tubes.
What is a fairlead? - (ANSWER)It is a device to prevent a cable from rubbing on
the aircraft strcture.
What are the most likely places for a control cable to wear or break? -
(ANSWER)Where the cables pass over pulleys or through fairleads.
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What information is required before a cable rigging chart can be used? -
(ANSWER)The ambient temperature and the cable size.
What is the function of a cable tension regulator? - (ANSWER)It automatically
adjusts the cable tension to compensate for expansion and contraction in the
aircraft structure.
Describe the function of rotorcraft collective pitch control. - (ANSWER)The
collective control causes each rotor blade to change its pitch angle by the same
amount, thus increasing or decreasing the lift produced by the rotor.
Describe the function of a rotorcraft cyclic pitch control. - (ANSWER)The cyclic
control tilts the main rotor disc by by changing the pitch angle of each rotor blade
during its cycle of rotation, which causes the helicopter to move in the direction
the rotor tilts.
What mechanism is most commonly used to compensate for the torque produced
by the main rotor of a helicopter? - (ANSWER)The tail (or anti-torque) rotor.
How is the amount of thrust produced by the tail rotor controlled? - (ANSWER)By
moving the foot pedals.
Why should a control surface be locked when an aircraft is parked? -
(ANSWER)To prevent damage from the wind.
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What is the major type of damage to aluminum structures that is caused by
exposure to the weather? - (ANSWER)Corrosion.
Name several method for forming sheet metal. - (ANSWER)Bending or folding,
stretching, shrinking, bumping, and crimping.
What are the dimensions of a properly formed rivet head? - (ANSWER)The head
should be 1-1/2 times the shank diameter in width and 1/2 the shank diameter in
height.
Describe the markings found on the heads of A, B, D, AD, and DD rivets? -
(ANSWER)A rivets are plain, B rivets have a cross, D rivets have a raised dot, AD
rivets have a dimple, and DD rivets have a double dash.
What happens to the stem of a self-plugging (friction lock) rivet when the rivet is
installed? - (ANSWER)The stem is pulled until it snaps off and the remaining
projecting part is trimmed flush with the head.
Name at least three types of self-plugging mechanical lock rivets. -
(ANSWER)CherryMAX, CherryLOCK, OLYMPIC-LOK, and HuckLok.
What is the difference between the tools required to pull a CherryLOCK rivet and
a CherryMAX rivet? - (ANSWER)CherryLock rivets require a tool for each different
size and head shape, while one pulling tool will set and size CherryMAX rivet.
A&P - Airframe Oral Exam (Jeppesen)
EXAM Questions and Answers (Verified
Answers) (Latest Update 2025) UPDATE!!
What is the function of a vortex generator? - (ANSWER)It is designed to delay of
prevent separation of the boundary layer.
What are the three axes of an airplane? - (ANSWER)Longitudinal, lateral, and
vertical.
What are the three primary flight controls of an aircraft? - (ANSWER)The ailerons,
elevators, and rudder.
Name several secondary flight controls and describe their general purpose? -
(ANSWER)Secondary flight controls consist of various types of trim tabs such as
balance tabs, anti-servo and servo tabs, and spring tabs. Their function is to assist
the pilot in moving the controls and to trim the aircraft to fly hands-off.
Name several types of auxiliary flight controls and describe their general purpose?
- (ANSWER)The auxiliary flight controls consist of the various high-lift devices
used during low-speed flight such as leading and trailing edge flaps, slats, slots,
speed brakes, etc.
What is a servo trim tab? - (ANSWER)It is an auxiliary control, positioned by the
movement of a primary control and designed to create aerodynamic forces to
assist in moving a control surface.
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What is a spring tab? - (ANSWER)It is an auxiliary control designed to aid the
movement of a primary control at high speeds when control forces become too
high.
What is a balance trim tab? - (ANSWER)It is an auxiliary control designed to
create aerodynamic forces to assist in moving a control surface. The tab is
positioned by a control rod connected to the fixed surface on the same side as the
horn an the tab.
What are four most common types of high lift devices? - (ANSWER)Leading and
trailing edge flaps, slats, and slots.
Describe some of the tools used to check control surface travel? - (ANSWER)A
universal propeller protractor or specal control surface protractor.
Name three mechanical methods by which flight control systems may be
actuated. - (ANSWER)Cables, push-pull rods, and torque tubes.
What is a fairlead? - (ANSWER)It is a device to prevent a cable from rubbing on
the aircraft strcture.
What are the most likely places for a control cable to wear or break? -
(ANSWER)Where the cables pass over pulleys or through fairleads.
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What information is required before a cable rigging chart can be used? -
(ANSWER)The ambient temperature and the cable size.
What is the function of a cable tension regulator? - (ANSWER)It automatically
adjusts the cable tension to compensate for expansion and contraction in the
aircraft structure.
Describe the function of rotorcraft collective pitch control. - (ANSWER)The
collective control causes each rotor blade to change its pitch angle by the same
amount, thus increasing or decreasing the lift produced by the rotor.
Describe the function of a rotorcraft cyclic pitch control. - (ANSWER)The cyclic
control tilts the main rotor disc by by changing the pitch angle of each rotor blade
during its cycle of rotation, which causes the helicopter to move in the direction
the rotor tilts.
What mechanism is most commonly used to compensate for the torque produced
by the main rotor of a helicopter? - (ANSWER)The tail (or anti-torque) rotor.
How is the amount of thrust produced by the tail rotor controlled? - (ANSWER)By
moving the foot pedals.
Why should a control surface be locked when an aircraft is parked? -
(ANSWER)To prevent damage from the wind.
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What is the major type of damage to aluminum structures that is caused by
exposure to the weather? - (ANSWER)Corrosion.
Name several method for forming sheet metal. - (ANSWER)Bending or folding,
stretching, shrinking, bumping, and crimping.
What are the dimensions of a properly formed rivet head? - (ANSWER)The head
should be 1-1/2 times the shank diameter in width and 1/2 the shank diameter in
height.
Describe the markings found on the heads of A, B, D, AD, and DD rivets? -
(ANSWER)A rivets are plain, B rivets have a cross, D rivets have a raised dot, AD
rivets have a dimple, and DD rivets have a double dash.
What happens to the stem of a self-plugging (friction lock) rivet when the rivet is
installed? - (ANSWER)The stem is pulled until it snaps off and the remaining
projecting part is trimmed flush with the head.
Name at least three types of self-plugging mechanical lock rivets. -
(ANSWER)CherryMAX, CherryLOCK, OLYMPIC-LOK, and HuckLok.
What is the difference between the tools required to pull a CherryLOCK rivet and
a CherryMAX rivet? - (ANSWER)CherryLock rivets require a tool for each different
size and head shape, while one pulling tool will set and size CherryMAX rivet.
