FAA Sport Pilot Practice Test

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• What term describes the average forward horizontal distance from the cockpit at which prominent unlighted objects may be seen and identified by day and prominent lighted objects may be seen and identified by night?
• What does the load factor describe in relation to an aircraft's weight?
• Which term denotes the engine-driven propulsion machinery of a heavier-than-air aircraft, excluding the propellers themselves?
• Light-Sport Aircraft propulsion must be a single, reciprocating engine.
• Which rotor supplies the principal lift to a rotorcraft?
• An ATS Route specification may include which of the following elements?
• Which standard defines the performance requirements for a Flight Training Device (FTD) qualification?
• In ETOPS, when an engine ceases to function in flight and is shutdown, which term is used to describe this event?
• In a multiengine aircraft, which engine's failure would most adversely affect performance or handling qualities?
• Maximum Speed For Stability Characteristics (Vfc / Mfc) is defined as which of the following?
• Which statement best describes Major Alteration?
• Which term refers to the power delivered at the main drive or main output of an aircraft engine?
• Which term describes the area used for landing and takeoff with its buildings and facilities?
• Prevailing horizontal visibility near the earth's surface as reported by the United States National Weather Service or an accredited observer is known as what?
• Manifold Pressure is typically expressed in which unit?
• What rotorcraft term describes a rotorcraft that, for its horizontal motion, depends principally on engine-driven rotors?
• An engine used or intended to propel aircraft, including turbosuperchargers and accessories but not including propellers, is called a(n)?
• What instrument approach altitude is the pilot required to decide on a missed approach if the required visual reference is not seen?
• Mach Number is defined as which of the following?
• Which term refers to the information filed with ATC about the intended flight?
• An area of land or water used or intended for landing and takeoff of aircraft, including buildings and facilities, is called a(n)?
• For turbine engine powered airplanes certificated after September 30, 1958, but before August 30, 1959, the clearway extends no less than how far on either side of the extended centerline?
• Which term covers interstate, overseas, or foreign air transportation or the transportation of mail by aircraft?
• Which area is established to inform pilots of high-volume pilot training or unusual aeronautical activity?
• A kite is defined as a framework, covered with paper, cloth, metal or other material, intended to be flown at the end of a rope or cable, and having as its only support the force of the wind moving past its surfaces.
• If a pilot asks about where non-hazardous military activities occur, MOA provides information for which traffic?
• Which term means any person other than a United States citizen who undertakes directly, by lease or other arrangement, to engage in air transportation?
• Which of the following is an example of Class for certification within a category having similar operating characteristics?
• What is the term for the maximum in-flight power or thrust setting identified in the performance data, used for a go-around?
• What term describes a reciprocating aircraft engine having a rated takeoff power that is producible from sea level to an established higher altitude?
• Which statement is not a feature of MOA?
• Major Repair is defined as what?
• Which of the following is a correct description of MOA?
• Manifold Pressure is defined as what?
• Which term refers to a person or organization engaged in air transportation by leasing aircraft?
• Which term refers to the forward wing of a canard configuration and may be fixed, movable, or variable geometry surface with or without control surfaces?
• Large Aircraft are aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight.
• Which term refers to the aerodynamic surface components including rotors, but excluding propellers and rotating engine blades?
• What term refers to an area established to inform pilots of a specific area wherein a high volume of pilot training or an unusual type of aeronautical activity is conducted?
• For certificating light-sport aircraft, what term describes an industry-developed consensus standard that applies to aircraft design, production, and airworthiness?
• In relation to Class A airspace, MOAs are located where?
• Which term means not susceptible to burning violently when ignited?
• Which term describes the forward lifting surface of a canard configuration or tandem-wing configuration airplane?
• Which term is used to describe the forward flight visibility phenomenon used in pilot reporting of visibility conditions?
• What term describes a device using an internal mechanism to show visually or aurally the attitude, altitude, or operation of an aircraft or aircraft part, including electronic devices for automatically controlling an aircraft in flight?
• Which term describes a person who, for compensation or hire, engages in the carriage by aircraft in air commerce of persons or property, excluding certain authorities?
• Category B rotorcraft are defined as:
• What term describes information relating to the intended flight that is filed with air traffic control?
• What is the maximum altitude at which, in standard atmosphere, it is possible to maintain, at a specified rotational speed, a specified power or a specified manifold pressure?
• What term describes a service operated by the appropriate authority to promote a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of aircraft?
• Which rotorcraft type uses engine-driven rotors for horizontal flight, with propulsion usually via propellers independent of rotor system?
• Climbout Speed, with respect to rotorcraft, means a referenced airspeed which results in a flight path clear of the height-velocity envelope during initial climbout.
• Which term refers to an instrument or accessory used in operating an aircraft, installed in the aircraft, but not part of the airframe, engine, or propeller?
• Extended Over-Water Operation is defined as which conditions?
• What term defines weather conditions below minimum for flight under visual flight rules?
• What does EFV stand for in aviation visibility terms?
• Which term denotes the area designated for helicopter landing and takeoff?
• Category III Operations refer to:
• The term for airspace established outside Class A to separate non-hazardous military activities from IFR traffic and to identify for VFR traffic where these activities are conducted is what?
• What does the acronym FSTD stand for?
• Which rotorcraft type has rotors that rotate by air rather than being engine-driven after start?
• What term denotes the speed of an airplane shown on its pitot-static airspeed indicator calibrated to reflect standard atmosphere adiabatic compressible flow at sea level, uncorrected for airspeed system errors?
• Who is the head of the Federal Aviation Administration or the person to whom authority has been delegated in the matter concerned?
• Which term describes operating over-the-top on an IFR flight plan when cleared to maintain VFR conditions?
• What is the term for the time period that begins when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing?
• A person who undertakes directly by lease or other arrangement to engage in air transportation is known as a(n)?
• Intrastate Air Transportation is defined as the carriage by aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight wholly within the same state.
• What is the average forward horizontal distance at which topographical objects may be clearly distinguished and identified by day or night using an EFV?
• Which statement best defines Equivalent Airspeed?
• Which term is defined as the navigation method that allows operation on any desired flight path and is associated with RNAV?
• For materials used to confine fire in a designated fire zone, what term describes the capacity to withstand heat at least as well as steel?
• Which term denotes the power delivered at the propeller shaft of an aircraft engine?
• If it is doubtful that an operation is for compensation or hire, what test is used to determine this?
• Which term describes a configuration where the forward wing span is smaller than the main wing span?
• Which term means approved by the FAA or a delegated authority or under a bilateral agreement?
• Long-Range Communication System (LRCS) is a system that extends beyond line of sight and may include which technologies?
• What rotorcraft term describes a rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-driven except for initial start, rotors spun by air when moving, with propulsion usually via conventional propellers independent of the rotor system?
• In relation to the load factor, the specified load can be expressed in terms of which forces?
• Final Approach Fix (FAF) defines which of the following?
• Which term describes the carriage by aircraft of mail, or the carriage of persons or property for compensation or hire, in commerce between the United States and outside places?
• What term denotes a level of constant atmospheric pressure related to 29.92 inches of mercury, expressed as hundreds of feet?
• What is the FAA-approved document that contains minimum configuration, operating, and maintenance requirements, hardware life-limits, and MMEL constraints necessary for an airplane-engine combination to meet ETOPS type design approval requirements?
• What defines Extended Operations (ETOPS)?
• An operation in which visibility conditions require an EFVS to be used in lieu of natural vision to perform an approach or landing is called what?
• A device used for flight in the air is defined as which term?
• What rotorcraft term refers to a rotorcraft whose rotors are normally engine-driven for takeoff, hovering, and landing, and whose propulsion usually consists of conventional propellers independent of the rotor system?
• Which term refers to a replica of aircraft instruments, equipment, panels, and controls used for training in a ground and flight environment, including the required equipment and QPS for a specific FTD level?
• What is acceptable evidence of physical fitness on a form prescribed by the Administrator?
• A device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air is called a(n)?
• What is the term for a pilot, flight engineer, or flight navigator assigned to duty in an aircraft during flight time?
• What term refers to a person assigned to perform duty in an aircraft during flight time?
• For a glider without self-launch capability, pilot time begins when the glider is towed for the purpose of flight and ends when the glider comes to rest after landing. What is this time period called?
• MMEL stands for what?
• What term covers the carriage by aircraft of persons or property for compensation or hire, or the carriage of mail by aircraft, or the operation or navigation of aircraft in the conduct or furtherance of a business or vocation, in commerce between a place in the United States and any place outside thereof?
• What does External-Load Attaching refer to?
• What term denotes an area of land, water, or structure used or intended for landing and takeoff of helicopters?
• Which term is the indicated airspeed of an aircraft corrected for position and instrument error?
• A MOA is established to separate IFR traffic from which activities?
• What term describes an airport at which an aircraft may land if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable?
• True statement: MOAs are established outside Class A airspace. Which option is correct?
• Class, when used with respect to certification, means a broad grouping of aircraft having similar characteristics of propulsion, flight, or landing.
• A MOA is established outside Class A airspace. Which option correctly describes the relation?
• What term refers to an authorization by air traffic control to proceed under specified traffic conditions within controlled airspace?
• Which term describes a rotorcraft flight condition in which the lifting rotor is driven entirely by action of the air when the rotorcraft is in motion?
• Landing Gear Extended Airspeed is the maximum speed at which the landing gear can be safely extended or retracted.
• Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft are aircraft that rise and remain suspended by using contained gas weighing less than the air that is displaced by the gas.
• Which term describes a method of navigation that permits aircraft operation on any desired flight path?
• Which term describes a configuration in which the forward wing's span is substantially less than that of the main wing?
• Category II Operations refer to:
• What is the term for the speed of the airplane that exists at the end of the takeoff path in the en route configuration with one engine inoperative?
• What phrase describes a full flight simulator or a flight training device?
• What term refers to any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance, or accessory, including communications equipment, that is used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight, is installed in or attached to the aircraft, and is not part of an airframe, engine, or propeller?
• For turbine engine powered airplanes certificated after August 29, 1959, the clearway beyond the runway must be at least how wide?
• What term describes an airspace of defined dimensions within which air traffic control service is provided to IFR flights and to VFR flights in accordance with the airspace classification?
• What term refers to the jet thrust obtained with engine power control at stop for the least thrust position?
• Which statement correctly distinguishes Category A from Category B rotorcraft regarding engine failure?
• Which term describes a lighter-than-air aircraft that is not engine driven, and sustains flight through buoyancy or heating?
• With respect to a fluid or gas, which term means susceptible to igniting readily or to exploding?
• Flight Level 250 corresponds to how many feet?
• Who approves the Configuration, Maintenance, and Procedures (CMP) Document?
• Which of the following is true about an ETOPS Group 1 Significant System?
• What is the term for the highest speed permissible with wing flaps in a prescribed extended position?
• The fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairings, airfoil surfaces (including rotors but excluding propellers and rotating airfoils of engines), and landing gear belong to which major component group?
• Which term is defined as the indicated airspeed of an aircraft corrected for position and instrument error?
• Which term denotes the forward wing of a canard configuration?
• Which statement correctly relates Category II and Category III operations?
• Interstate Air Commerce refers to carriage by aircraft for compensation or hire, or the carriage of mail in commerce between which locations?
• MOA is an acronym for which of the following?
• Flight Level 255 corresponds to how many feet?
• Which term is defined as a specified route designated for channeling the flow of traffic for air traffic services, and may include route designator, path to/from significant points, distance between points, reporting requirements, and the lowest safe altitude?
• Which term means an unmanned rocket that: (1) is propelled by a motor or motors having a combined total impulse of 889,600 Newton-seconds (200,000 pound-seconds) or less; and (2) Cannot reach an altitude greater than 150 kilometers above the earth's surface?
• The term for interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce or mail transport by aircraft, including related safety concerns, is?
• Which activities are included in Maintenance?
• An engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings, is called a(n)?
• Threshold lights may protrude above the clearway plane if their height above the end of the runway is 26 inches or less and if they are located where?
• Which term describes not being susceptible to combustion to the point of flame propagation after the ignition source is removed?
• Which term describes a route for air traffic services that includes a designated path to and from significant points?
• For Light-Sport Aircraft, the maximum airspeed in level flight with maximum continuous power is not more than 120 knots CAS under standard atmospheric conditions at sea level.
• Which term describes a hobbyist rocket with a total impulse under the threshold and altitude limit?
• Which device is a replica of a specific type; or make, model, and series aircraft cockpit, including required equipment and a visual system, and provides motion cues and full range of capabilities for a specific FFS qualification level?
• What is an External Load?
• Light-Sport Aircraft excludes aircraft that are helicopters or powered-lift aircraft from its definition.
• Light-Sport Aircraft seating is limited to a maximum of two persons, including the pilot.
• For OEI ratings of two minutes or less, the maximum engine overt torque may occur for up to how many seconds without engine rejection?
• Which statement correctly completes: Military Operations Area is the airspace established to separate IFR traffic from certain non-hazardous military activities?
• Which term describes an ATS route based on RNAV that can be used by suitably equipped aircraft?
• Extended Over-Water Operation for airplanes is defined as operation over water at more than how many nautical miles from the nearest shoreline?
• Which statement best describes the clearway as defined for turbine-powered airplanes certificated after 1959?
• Which imaging modalities may be used by EFVS?
• Landing Gear Operating Speed is defined as the maximum speed at which the landing gear can be safely extended or retracted.
• Interstate Air Transportation is defined as the carriage of persons or property as a common carrier for compensation or hire, by turbojet-powered aircraft capable of carrying thirty or more persons, wholly within the same state.
• What term describes a heavier-than-air aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces and whose free flight does not depend principally on an engine?
• The term Maximum Engine Overtorque applies to which engine types?
• What area is established to contain activities which if not conducted in a controlled environment would be hazardous to nonparticipating aircraft?
• Which term refers to a rotor that serves either to counteract the main rotor torque or to maneuver the rotorcraft about axes?
• Which airspace classes are included in controlled airspace?
• ETOPS type design approval obtained without gaining non-ETOPS service experience is called what?
• An Instrument Approach Procedure is defined as a series of predetermined maneuvers by reference to flight instruments with specified protection from obstacles and assurance of navigation signal reception capability, beginning from the initial approach fix to a point from which a landing can be completed or to a point where holding or en route obstacle clearance criteria apply.
• Civil Aircraft are:
• What best describes an ETOPS Significant System?
• The MOA separates IFR traffic from which type of activities?
• For VFR traffic, MOA provides information about where the activities are conducted. Which choice reflects this?
• Maximum Engine Overtorque refers to which concept for turbopropeller and turboshaft engines with free power turbines in OEI ratings?
• A Light-Sport Aircraft must have a maximum takeoff weight not more than 1,320 pounds for aircraft not intended for operation on water, or not more than 1,430 pounds for aircraft intended for operation on water.
• Major Alteration is defined as what?
• An engine-driven lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered is called a(n)?
• Ceiling is defined as:
• Which statement best defines Category A rotorcraft in the transport category?
• Light-Sport Aircraft is an aircraft that, since its original certification, has continued to meet criteria including maximum takeoff weight not exceeding 1,320 pounds (not intended for water), or not exceeding 1,430 pounds for water operation, maximum airspeed, maximum seating capacity of no more than two including the pilot, and a single reciprocating engine.
• The Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) constraints are included in which FAA-approved document?
• What is the standard reference atmospheric pressure used to determine Flight Levels?
• Which term expresses the airspeed measured by the aircraft’s airspeed indicator before corrections for errors?
• What term describes aircraft operating in the air or on an airport surface exclusive of loading ramps and parking areas?
• What does EFVS stand for?
• Which statement best describes the information MOA provides to VFR pilots?
• An Enhanced Flight Vision System includes which components?
• Non-dimensional coefficients used to quantify aerodynamic forces and moments are known as?
• Which statement best describes the MOA in relation to IFR traffic?
• What is the forward lifting surface of a canard configuration or tandem-wing configuration airplane called?
• Which term best fits a device that can display attitude and altitude and may include automatic flight control features?