Quiz 21
Quiz 21
1. You are operating a twin-engine aeroplane and plan to overfly a populous area on your
departure. What is the minimum height at which you can overfly a populous area?
a. 1000 ft above the highest obstacle within a 600 m radius of the point on the ground
directly below your aircraft.
b. 1500 ft above the highest obstacle within a 300 m radius of the point on the ground
immediately below your aircraft.
c. a multi-engine aircraft is not subject to minimum altitude over populous area
requirements.
d. 1500 ft AGL.
2. You are landing on a wet runway and your aircraft’s tyre pressure is 550 KPa. At what
approximate speed in kts are you likely to hydroplane?
a. at or above 81 kts.
b. at or above 55 kts.
c. below 81 kts.
d. below 55 kts.
3. Are you permitted to operate from Canberra to Nowra VFR at 2500 ft AMSL?
a. Yes.
b. No.
c. yes but only in the portions of the flight which are in controlled airspace.
d. no, not unless the landing light is illuminated for the duration of the flight.
4. You are operating a C182 privately. Canberra ATIS reports that low-visibility operations are in
progress, the cloud ceiling is 400 ft and the visibility is 2500 m. Are you permitted to take off?
a. Yes.
b. no, you do not hold an approval.
c. yes, subject to ATC clearance.
d. no, a visibility of 5000 m is required.
5. On climb, when must you change the altimeter subscale from QNH to QNE (1013.2 HPa)?
7. When flying night VFR OCTA, you are permitted to descend below your LSALT/MSA provided:
8. When navigating under the VFR, you inadvertently find yourself on top of an unbroken cloud
layer unable to navigate by visual reference to ground or sea. What should you do?
a. declare an emergency.
b. descend through the cloud layer in order to regain visual reference.
c. navigate in accordance with the IFR requirements.
d. declare an emergency only if you cannot fix your position every 30 minutes.
9. While DME and GNSS equipped and navigating under the VFR, you are requested by ATC to
provide distance information; you should:
10. You meet the definition of being ‘in the vicinity of a non-controlled aerodrome’ when:
a. you may make a straight-in approach provided you give way to any conflicting aircraft
in the circuit.
b. you may make a straight-in approach provided you establish on final by 3 nm.
c. you may not make a straight-in approach unless you can determine the wind
direction.
d. you may not make a straight-in approach unless you can determine the wind
direction and the runways in use.
12. You are at FL 120 in an unpressurised aircraft. What supplemental oxygen requirements are
applicable?
a. None.
b. your aircraft should be fitted with a supplemental oxygen system.
c. you must use supplemental oxygen at any time above 10,000 ft AMSL.
d. you must use supplemental oxygen only when above FL 125.
Answers to CLWA Quiz 7
1. (a)
2. (a) 9 x square root of tyre pressure in PSI
3. (a) 91.275
4. (b) 91.315
5. (a) MOS 11.02
6. (a) MOS 11.02
7. (c) within 3 nm
8. (c) MOS 14.01
9. (c) MOS 11.05
10. (d) 91.375
11. (d) 91.395
12. (a) none