NIFE NAV Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
Define Air navigation Answer: the process of determining the geographic
position and maintaining the desired direction of an aircraft relative to the
surface of the earth."
What are the 3 types of navigation? Answer: Dead Reckoning, Visual, and
electronic
What are the 4 components of dead reckoning? Answer: PTSD
Position
Time
Speed
Direction
Define piston Answer: Geographic point define by coordinates.
Define latitude Answer: angular distance north or south of the equator
Define longitude Answer: angular distance west or east prime meridian
What are latitude and longitudes measured in? Answer: degrees and minutes.
60 minute in 1 degree
Define direction Answer: Angular distance from a reference
where is the magnetic north vs true north? Answer: Magnetic north= Hudson
bay
True north= North pole
, 2
What are the types of compass systems on a military aircraft? Answer:
Primary= Remote Gyro Vertical Compass Card or BDHI (Bearing Direction
Heading Indicator) or EHSI (Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator)
Secondary= Standby compass
What produces attitude and heading information through the use of a ring laser
gyro and accelerometers? Answer: INS Inertial navigation system
Why is a standby compass called a wet compass? Answer: Filled with fluid to
dampen needle movement
What are the benefits of a standby compass? Answer: Reliability and
independent of aircraft's electrical system
What are the drawbacks of a standby compass? Answer: unstable during
maneuvers
What are the different ways time can be expressed? Answer: 4 digit 0000 or 6
digit 00+00+00
What is speed? Answer: magnitude of velocity of an aircraft
How do you calculate speed? Answer: Speed = distance/time
What are the 3 primary instruments for DR navigation? Answer: 1)Remote
Gyro vertical compass card (BDHI OR EHSI)
2) Clock
3) Airspeed indicator
What are the two secondary instruments used for DR navigation? Answer:
OAT and altimeter
How does visual navigation work? Answer: Requires direct visual contact with
earth's surface using ground references
Correct Answers)
Define Air navigation Answer: the process of determining the geographic
position and maintaining the desired direction of an aircraft relative to the
surface of the earth."
What are the 3 types of navigation? Answer: Dead Reckoning, Visual, and
electronic
What are the 4 components of dead reckoning? Answer: PTSD
Position
Time
Speed
Direction
Define piston Answer: Geographic point define by coordinates.
Define latitude Answer: angular distance north or south of the equator
Define longitude Answer: angular distance west or east prime meridian
What are latitude and longitudes measured in? Answer: degrees and minutes.
60 minute in 1 degree
Define direction Answer: Angular distance from a reference
where is the magnetic north vs true north? Answer: Magnetic north= Hudson
bay
True north= North pole
, 2
What are the types of compass systems on a military aircraft? Answer:
Primary= Remote Gyro Vertical Compass Card or BDHI (Bearing Direction
Heading Indicator) or EHSI (Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator)
Secondary= Standby compass
What produces attitude and heading information through the use of a ring laser
gyro and accelerometers? Answer: INS Inertial navigation system
Why is a standby compass called a wet compass? Answer: Filled with fluid to
dampen needle movement
What are the benefits of a standby compass? Answer: Reliability and
independent of aircraft's electrical system
What are the drawbacks of a standby compass? Answer: unstable during
maneuvers
What are the different ways time can be expressed? Answer: 4 digit 0000 or 6
digit 00+00+00
What is speed? Answer: magnitude of velocity of an aircraft
How do you calculate speed? Answer: Speed = distance/time
What are the 3 primary instruments for DR navigation? Answer: 1)Remote
Gyro vertical compass card (BDHI OR EHSI)
2) Clock
3) Airspeed indicator
What are the two secondary instruments used for DR navigation? Answer:
OAT and altimeter
How does visual navigation work? Answer: Requires direct visual contact with
earth's surface using ground references
