Ground School Midterm Questions with
Answers
Q 2-1 With respect to the certification of aircraft, which is a category of aircraft?
Ans: Normal, utility, acrobatic, transportation
Q 2-2 With respect to the certification of airmen, which is a category of aircraft?
Ans: Airplane, rotorcraft, glider, lighter-than-air
Q 2-4 What should an owner or operator know about Airworthiness Directives
(AD's)?
Ans: They are mandatory
Q 2-3 To meet the recency of experience requirements to act as pilot in command
carrying passengers at night, a pilot must have made at least three takeoffs and three
landings to a full stop within the preceding 90 days in:
Ans: the same category and class of aircraft to be used.
Q 2-5 Your friend wants you to take him flying. In order to do this, you must have
made at least three takeoffs and three landings in your aircraft within the preceding.
Ans: 90 days
BL What is the one common cause of most preventable accidents?
Ans: Human factors.
BL In the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process, what is the first step to take
in order to reduce a hazardous attitude?
Ans: Recognizing hazardous thoughts.
BL What is correct antidote against the hazardous attitude of anti-authority?
Ans: Follow the rules They are usually right
BL What antidote is correct against the hazardous attitude of resignation?
Ans: I am not helpless. I can make a difference
BL Every pilot experiences somewhat these hazardous attitude, they are:
Q&A
, Ans: Anti-authority, impulsivity, macho, resignation, and invulnerability.
BL What is antidote against the hazardous attitude of invulnerability?
Ans: It could happen to me.
What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude, such as "Impulsivity"?
Ans: Not so fast, think first.
BLM Who have to determine whether a pilot who has medical certificate is fit to fly
for a flight?
Ans: The pilot.
BL In VFR what often leads to spatial disorientation or collision with
ground/obstacles?
Ans: Continual flight into instrument conditions.
What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude, such as "Macho"?
Ans: Taking changes is foolish.
Risk management, as part of the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process, relies
on which features to reduce the risks associated with each flight?
Ans: The mental process of analyzing all information in a particular situation and making a
timely decision on what action to take.
What often leads to spatial disorientation or collision with ground/obstacles when
flying under Visual Flight Rules (VFR)?
Ans: Continual flight into instrument conditions.
FAA L What is it often called when pilot pushes his or her capabilities and the
aircraft's limits by trying to maintain visual contact with the terrain in low visibility
and ceiling?
Ans: Scud running.
BM What is normally neglected important resource if a pilot relies only on short and
long term memory for repetitive tasks?
Ans: Checklists.
BL. A person may not act or attempt as a crewmember of a civil aircraft after the
consumption of any alcoholic beverages within the preceding
Q&A
Answers
Q 2-1 With respect to the certification of aircraft, which is a category of aircraft?
Ans: Normal, utility, acrobatic, transportation
Q 2-2 With respect to the certification of airmen, which is a category of aircraft?
Ans: Airplane, rotorcraft, glider, lighter-than-air
Q 2-4 What should an owner or operator know about Airworthiness Directives
(AD's)?
Ans: They are mandatory
Q 2-3 To meet the recency of experience requirements to act as pilot in command
carrying passengers at night, a pilot must have made at least three takeoffs and three
landings to a full stop within the preceding 90 days in:
Ans: the same category and class of aircraft to be used.
Q 2-5 Your friend wants you to take him flying. In order to do this, you must have
made at least three takeoffs and three landings in your aircraft within the preceding.
Ans: 90 days
BL What is the one common cause of most preventable accidents?
Ans: Human factors.
BL In the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process, what is the first step to take
in order to reduce a hazardous attitude?
Ans: Recognizing hazardous thoughts.
BL What is correct antidote against the hazardous attitude of anti-authority?
Ans: Follow the rules They are usually right
BL What antidote is correct against the hazardous attitude of resignation?
Ans: I am not helpless. I can make a difference
BL Every pilot experiences somewhat these hazardous attitude, they are:
Q&A
, Ans: Anti-authority, impulsivity, macho, resignation, and invulnerability.
BL What is antidote against the hazardous attitude of invulnerability?
Ans: It could happen to me.
What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude, such as "Impulsivity"?
Ans: Not so fast, think first.
BLM Who have to determine whether a pilot who has medical certificate is fit to fly
for a flight?
Ans: The pilot.
BL In VFR what often leads to spatial disorientation or collision with
ground/obstacles?
Ans: Continual flight into instrument conditions.
What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude, such as "Macho"?
Ans: Taking changes is foolish.
Risk management, as part of the aeronautical decision making (ADM) process, relies
on which features to reduce the risks associated with each flight?
Ans: The mental process of analyzing all information in a particular situation and making a
timely decision on what action to take.
What often leads to spatial disorientation or collision with ground/obstacles when
flying under Visual Flight Rules (VFR)?
Ans: Continual flight into instrument conditions.
FAA L What is it often called when pilot pushes his or her capabilities and the
aircraft's limits by trying to maintain visual contact with the terrain in low visibility
and ceiling?
Ans: Scud running.
BM What is normally neglected important resource if a pilot relies only on short and
long term memory for repetitive tasks?
Ans: Checklists.
BL. A person may not act or attempt as a crewmember of a civil aircraft after the
consumption of any alcoholic beverages within the preceding
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