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Night Rating Exam Questions

This document contains 35 multiple choice questions related to night flying operations and ratings. The questions cover topics like night effects, visibility requirements, runway lighting, night flying equipment requirements, optical illusions experienced at night, navigation lighting colors, fog formation conditions, winds near terrain features at night, hypoxia, and emergency signaling procedures at night. The majority of the questions have a single correct multiple choice answer relating to regulations and best practices for night flight.

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Night Rating Exam Questions

This document contains 35 multiple choice questions related to night flying operations and ratings. The questions cover topics like night effects, visibility requirements, runway lighting, night flying equipment requirements, optical illusions experienced at night, navigation lighting colors, fog formation conditions, winds near terrain features at night, hypoxia, and emergency signaling procedures at night. The majority of the questions have a single correct multiple choice answer relating to regulations and best practices for night flight.

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NIGHT RATING EXAM QUESTIONS

1. Where will the night effect be most visible?


a) Desert
b) City
c) Coastal area
d) A place with light side of the runway
2. What visibility is needed on a flight in an ATZ
a) 5km
3. VASI lights and the degree left of light of the centerline?
a) 10 Degrees
b) Degrees
c) Degrees
d) Degrees
4. What is Autokinesis?
a) The movement of a light from left to right (movement of an object in
oscillation)
5. When you are turning and you rollout wings level, what is that illusion called?
a) Somatographic illusion
b) Leans
c) Vertigo
d) Couple/complex???
6. When you are at flight level 125 (F125)[FL105] what is the visibility required?
a) 8km
7. When you are taking off from an airfield at night, what is the visibility required
to continue?
a) 5km
8. If night started 18h00 what time is sunset?
a) 17h45
9. What colour are the runway light from the beginning to the end?
a) White turning yellow towards the end
b) Blue turning green
c) Yellow turning white
d) Green turning blue
10. What runway lights do you expect at the threshold of the runway?
a) Green at the threshold of the landing runway
11. Taxi lights: what colour are the centre lights of the taxiway
a) Green
12. What are the least equipments required for night flying
a) Navigation lights, landing light, strobe lights and torch
13. What equipments do you need for night flying?
a) Serviceable torch for each flight crew member
14. What are the requirements of an airfield to carry out night flying if not an
emergency?
a) The aerodrome has night flying equipment
15. The effect of a hole-effect while landing...
a) You are higher than you think you are leading to a lower approach
16. The black-hole effect gives an illusion of...?
a) Higher than you actually are
17. What photocell is responsible for night flying?
a) The rods
18. What are the privileges of a PIC with a night rating?
a) May fly an aircraft that he/she is not type-rated on?
b) May fly an aircraft by night on an aircraft that he/she is not type-rated
on
c) May fly by day on an aircraft that he/she is not type-rated on
d) May fly an aircraft that he/she is type-rated on

19. If you are flight at night and you see a red light to the right and the green to
the left growing bigger the aircraft is...?
a) Moving away from you
b) Moving parallel away from you
c) Moving to the right towards you
d) Moving directly toward yo
20. On the starboard (right) wing, what colour is the navigation light?
21. On the port (left) wing, what colour is the navigation light?
22. On the rear onboard the aircraft, what colour is the navigation light?
23. What are the conditions required for the formation of advection fog?
a) Light wind with an airmass moving towards a colder surface
b) A clear night with a strong wind
c) An overcast night with high humidity over a warm surface
24. When flying towards mountaneous area, the kind of winds you expect are?
a) Anabatic winds moving upwards
b) Katabatic winds moving downwards
c) Anabatic moving downwards
d) Katabatic moving upwards
25. The surface winds at night are likely to be
a) Weaker than surface winds at day
b) Stronger than surface winds during the day
c) Equal to surface winds during the day
26. On a cold winter day what kind of icing would you find on the windscreen of
your plane?
a) Rime ice
b) Hoar frost
c) Snow
27. What is hypoxia
a) Reduction in the concentration of oxygen
b) An increase of the breathing rate
c) An increase of the oxygen in the blood
d) Hyperventilation
28. The susceptibility of
29. When you smoke in the cockpit, what do you expect to happen other than the
likelihood of hypoxia?
a) Night vision increases
b) Ability to see distant objects increased
c) Decrease in night vision
30. Use of red light in the cockpit mainly affects?
a) Reduce night vision
b) Red lines on charts and maps become difficult to view
31. What additional equipment may be carried on a flight at night?
a) Altimeter
b) VSI
c) A chart reader with appropriate illumination
32. In an emergency situation, how can an a/c communicate to the tower that it
has understood the instruction?
a) Rocking wings left and right
b) Doing 3 circuits
c) Switching on and off landing lights
d) Switching off all lights in the cockpit
33. When conducting a VFR flight at night with an obstacle en-route that doesnt
exceed 5000m, what height should be flown above MSA?
a) 1000ft
b) 2000ft
c) 1500ft
d) 4000ft
34. Whats the difference between mist and fog?
a) Mist visibility is 1500m greater than fog

b) Mist visibility is less than 1000m and fog is greater than 1000m
c) Fog visibility is less than 1500m and mist is greater than 1000m
d) Mist visibility is 1000m or more while fog is less than 1000m
35. During a VFR flight at night, pilot may fly as long as?
a) He maintains distance between identifications, etc
b) Flies lower than 1500ft
c) Is above 4/8 cloud covering and within 5nm

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