The Goons List

Private Pilot:

Private Stage 1:

1) Fitness For Flight ( IMSAFE )

2) Certificates and Documents ARROW [ ° 360 [2A
3) Airworthiness Requirements AAVITE
4) Airplane Part and Components I4HANDLE
5) Airplane Flight Controls
6) Reciprocating Engines
7) Powerplant Related Systems (Induction, Ignition, Fuel system, Fuel Injection)
8) Airplane Flight Instruments ( Pitot-Static, Gyro, Mag Compass)
9) The Four Forces in Flight
10) Airplane Limitations (V Speeds)
11) Collision Avoidance / Visual Scanning
12) Airport Operations
13) Right of Way Rules
14) Minimum Safe Altitudes
15) Taxiing with Wind
16) Airports, Runway and Taxiway Signs and Markings
17) Land and Hold Short Operations (LAHSO)
18) Airspace Classification (Controlled, Uncontrolled, and Special Use)
19) VFR Cloud Clearance Req
20) AVIATES, FLAPs, ATOMATOFLAMES, UNOS, ANDS, NWKRAFT
21) Medical, Privileges and Limitations
22) TAF, METAR
23) Weight and Balance

Private Stage 2:

1) Private Pilot Privileges and Limitations

2) Aircraft Performance (Section 5 POH, Charts. How to calculate TO and LAND
Distances, TAS, GPH)
3) Weight and Balance (How to do it without using the computer, empty paper, read
chapter 6)
4) Know the weight shift formula
5) Flight at Various CG Positions (what happens when you haven an aft/forward CG)
 6) How to use the flight computer (WCA, Ground Speed, distance, time , fuel consumption)
7) Pilotage and Dead Reckoning
8) Flight Planning
9) VOR (theory, orientation, navigation, intercepting, homing, tracking)
10) What do we do when you are lost (Lost procedure)
11) DME
12) NDB (theory, orientation, navigation, homing, tracking)
13) GPS Theory
14) Vision at night
15) Visual Illusions (ICEFLAGS)
16) Hypoxia
17) Hyperventilation
18) ADM (PAVE, IMSAFE, 3 P, 5 P, DECIDE Models)
19) SRM ( ADM , situational awareness, automation management, CFIT, workload mgmt)
20) Sectional Charts (symbols, airspaces, airports)
21) Preflight weather briefing ( standard briefing, abbreviated briefing, outlook) How to call
FSS
22) How to file a Flight Plan
23) Special emphasis areas ( PTS/ ACS)
24) Weather
25) Special Flight Permit
26) MEL
27) Weather Theory
28) Weather Products
29) Fuel System, Electrical System
30) POH Chapter 1 and 2

Flight:

1) Slow flight clean and LDG Configuration

2) Power off Stall clean and LDG Configuration
3) Power on Stall clean and LDG Configuration
4) Steep Turn
5) Diversion
6) Short field TO and LDG
7) Soft field TO and LDG
8) Engine Failure abeam the numbers in traffic pattern
9) Engine Failure in Flight ( at 1000, 2000, 3000 ft)
10) You have to know NPA and SPA (visual markings of the different airspaces and the
airports/strips in each one)

Private Stage 3:

1) Make sure to review the lighting for the runway/taxiway

 2) Category and Class differences
3) Weather mins, Scenario “If the visibility is 2sm, is it VFR?” “What airspace can you fly in
with these conditions?”

Instrument Rating:

Instrument Stage 1 :

1) Required Equipment
2) Definition of IFR/VFR/ MVFR/ LIFR
3) IFR Altitudes
4) IFR Safe Altitudes
5) Hypoxia
6) Vestibular Illusions
7) What are the Four ATC Facilities and their responsibilities (FSS, ATCT, TRACON/TEC,
ARTCC)
8) How can you contact FSS?
9) What are the elements of an ATC Clearance?
10) When do you talk to TRACON?
11) When is an aircraft cleared for and IFR Departure?
12) If a controller says “radar contact” who is responsible for ground obstacle clearance?
13) Airport Signs and lighting ( VASI, PAPI, ALS)
14) Magnetic Compass
15) Pitot-static system - Dynamic / static pressure
16) ASI – instrument / operation failures / speeds / V-Speeds
17) Altimeter – instrument/ operation / failures / altitudes
18) VSI – instrument / operation / errors
19) Vacuum system
20) Gyroscopic principles
21) Attitude indicator – instrument / operation & errors
22) Heading indicator – instrument / operation & errors
23) Turn & slip indicator / turn coordinator – instrument / operation / rate of turn / rate of roll
24) Electrical system
25) Magnetic compass
26) G-1000 Systems / schematic / LRUs / failures / location LRUs
27) VOR – operation / use / inspections / errors / service volumes / frequency range /
intercepting & tracking
28) NDB – operation / use (3 ADFs) / errors / service volumes / frequency range
29) GPS – operation / use / updates / RAIM / WAAS / LAAS
30) DME – operation / slant-range / errors
31) Aeromedical factors – including illusions
32) BAI – Primary & supporting, control & performance / fundamental skills of instrument
flying (CIA) / crosscheck errors (FOE)
33) Airport environment
 34) Privileges of IR
35) Currency
36) Inspections
37) 91.205

Flight:

1. Maneuvers – slow flight, steep turns, stalls, unusual attitudes

2. Intercepting & Tracking
3. Time & distance
4. DME Arcs
5. Timed turns & compass turns.

Instrument Stage 2:

1) Types of approaches – precision, non-precision & APVs – ILS*, GLS, PAR. RNAV (what
is & types), GPS, ASR (normal / non-gyro), LOC, LOC BC, VOR*, NDB, LDA, SDF
2) The approach plates – duration / elements / segments of the approach
3) A/C Categories
4) Circling approaches
5) Procedure turns – type / time / airspeed / distance / NoPT
6) Visual approach vs Contact approaches
7) Missed approach procedures
8) Triangulation / Trilateration
9) Overlay & Standalone approaches
10) Terminal / non-terminal approaches
11) “Established”
12) Holding – entries / limitations (Time/ distance/ airspeed)
13) Holding without instructions
14) 91.175
15) ILS Critical area
16) FAF on ILS
17) LNAV, LNAV / VNAV, LPV – differences
18) RNP
19) Terminal arrival area
20) Departure Procedures – SIDs, ODPs
21) STARs
22) Autopilot – operation/ limitations
23) Visual Descent Point
24) “Baro-VNAV NA -15C + 48C”
25) “DME / DME RNP – 0.3 NA”
26) Airport environment
Flight:
1. Holding
2. Approaches

1. PA

2. Circling approach

3. NPA partial panel

1. No PFD

Instrument Stage 3:

1) Preflight actions (91.103)

2) Fuel Requirements (91.167)
3) What ground checks should you do before departure regarding the equipment you plan
to use to navigate
4) How to check RAIM (AIM 1-1-17, 5-1-16)
5) What Equipment do we need for today's flight? (91.105)
6) How often do the GPS databases need to be updated? (Every 28 navigation, 56 days
obstacles)
7) Can you update the GPS on the G1000 by yourself?
8) Do you need any other types of navigation if using GPS (Aim 1-1-17)
9) How long before the flight do you need to file your flight plan (5-1-8)
10) When will the tower delete your flight plan if not activated?
11) Can you depart vfr for an IFR flight? If so, what are your increased responsibilities/risks?
12) If you plan to change altitude throughout the flight what altitude should you enter on your
flight plan? (5-1-8)
13) When do you need an alternate? What are the alternate weather mins? (91.169c)
14) What are the required minimums for that alternate? (the one SP chose)
15) What restrictions apply to filling a minimum with a WAAS GPS? (1-1-7)
16) What restrictions apply to flight planning when using WAAS Equipped Aircraft?(1-1-18)
17) What is a preferred Route and where can I find them?
18) How can I test a VOR at KSSI?
19) How many types of Notams are there? What does each one cover? (5-1-3)
20) What information should a weather briefing contain? (7-1-4)
21) How can I get weather updates en-route?
22) Using 2 observations, 2 forecasts and 2 graphical charts, brief me on a go or no go
decision
23) What are the required reports for equipment malfunction? (91.187)
24) How will you get your clearance from KSSI?
 25) What does “cleared as filed” mean? (5-2-5)
26) What are the elements of an instrument clearance?
27) What is a clearance void time? (5-2-6)
28) What does hold for release mean?
29) If no minimum altitude (MOCA or MEA) is prescribed, what is the minimum altitude for
IFR flight?
30) What are the mandatory IFR Reports? (MARVELOUS VFR C 500)
31) What information should be included in all reports? (5-3-3)
32) What does the clearance “Cruise at 8000ft” mean?
33) On the NAV Log make sure to add the variation to the wind direction for the winds aloft
34) When do you Descend on an MDA/DA?
35) Waas GPS - TCO 145-146
36) Non-Waas GPS - TCO 195-196
37) With an ETA - Leave clearance as close as possible to ETA
38) With EFC - Leave Clearance at EFC
39) KSSI-KTPA - There is no change over point, when do you change over the VOR = you
have to calculate the change over point
40) IF you get the clearance : Note that your cleared to TPA!! The EFC 1730Z is not
needed!
C- TPA
R - RV to omn, V157, AF, EFC 1730Z
A - 3000 - expect 10000 10 min after departure
F - 1234T
T - 1200Z

OCS (Obstacle Clearance Altitude) =152’/NM

1) Would an ODP Be published? 2.6 miles from the departure end of the runway, obstacle
at 400’, would you need an odp? Yes

152 / 1 =X / 2.6 => 359.2 ** Cross Multiply **

2) If you get your instrument cert on 9/26, one approach in October and one in november,
would you be current March 31? Are you current?

**Count back, it's the preceding 6 months** Does he have 6?

Commercial Pilot:
Commercial Stage 1:
 1) Aerodynamics
2) Systems
3) Cessna 172 RG Landing Gear System
4) Retractable landing gear system
5) Variable pitch Prop
6) Oxygen requirements
7) TAA Aircraft/ Complex Aircraft
8) How Does / Why Does Va Affect the Airplane?
9) About the Critical Altitude of the Da42? What is it?
10) Pressurization systems
11) Weight and Balance
12) Privileges and Limitations
13) Scenario about Colorado and reading sectional chart info about the airport

Commercial Stage 2:

1) How they construct the pavement,

2) Chart supplement information
3) A Lot of flight planning
4) Commercial Privileges
5) Symbology
6) Private/ Common Carriage
7) Airworthiness - MEL
8) How do we check an ELT?
9) Weather theory - Airmet/Sigmet (Times Valid)
10) Weather Products
11) Airspace and Visibility Requirements
12) Load Factor
13) Stall/Spin

Flight:

1) Emergencies
2) Enter uncontrolled Airport
3) Cross Country Diversion (Palatka)
4) Intercept flight plan

Commercial Stage 3:

1) Flight Plan
- Altitude (Why?)
- R-------oute (Dead Reckoning) as direct as possible
 - Lost Comm (Light Gun Signals)

2) Airspace
- All the Requirements to enter B,C,D,E
- Maximum Airspeed in each airspace
- Where we need to fly with a transponder (+ Altitudes)
- SVFR in Surface E and how to request
- Read Airport Information from the Sectional
- Beacon Colors
- Wild Life
- Weather associated with Fronts

3) Regulations
- Commercial Privileges/Limitations (119.1)
- Inspections for VFR Flight
- Inop Equipment Scenario
- Special Flight Permit
- ELT testing, frequency

4) Systems
- Pressurization
- Electrical (low volt)
- Oil System

5) Aerodynamics
- Stall, Spin, Stability

What is the difference between a horizontal stabilizer and stabilator?

Ailerons - Differential ailerons

Ken Luckett FAA Questions:

1) Medical Certificate
2) Comm and Private Carriage
3) Who needs to take responsibility to keep the aircraft for airworthy conditions?
4) Inop Equipment Scenario (VFR Day Type Certificate, KOEL, 91.205, ADs, Deactivate,
Remove)
5) Annual and 100 hours Inspections scenario
6) What is a Special Flight Permit?
7) Currency Requirements
8) If a pilot changes permanent mailing address and fails to notify the FAA of the new
address, how long may the pilot continue to exercise the privileges of his/her certificate?
 9) He showed a picture of a piper Cherokee and asked the student if he can fly this plane
legally?
10) You cannot fly certain airplanes even though they are SEL, Which aircraft are they?
(High Performance, Comlex, High Altitude)
11) If you want to fly those aircraft ( High Alt, Complex, etc.) what do you need to do
(Endorsements)
12) Supplemental Oxygen Requirements (Connects to Physiology)
13) C172 HP
14) If you lost electrical power, would the engine quit? Why?
15) Fuel quantity of the C172 and the function of the Vents
16) What is the purpose of testing a standby battery before we arm it?
17) Minimum amount of time you have to test a standby battery (seconds) before you can
arm it and why
18) How many volts need to be on the PFD when we arm the Standby Battery?
19) Which instruments get power from the standby battery?
20) Sectional Chart Symbols
21) Airspaces
22) What is Service Ceiling/Absolute Ceiling?
23) VFR Weather Minimums
24) Weather Products ( need to know how to use 1800wxbrief, he asked how to read some
of the weather products online)
25) What is HIWAS
26) Can we enter MOA?
27) Can we enter a Restricted Area?
28) Types of Notams
29) Where can you find TFR information? Show me.
30) What is an RCO? What information can you get from it?
31) Spins (When does it happen? How does it develop? Recovery Procedure?)
32) You and 3 passengers are going to KTLH (He gives you the weights of all the PAX) they
want to load their bags as many as they can, how many pounds of baggage and fuel will
you load?
**Use the Current weather + Standby Battery is failed, make a go, no go decision**
Preflight :

1) Antennas
2) Air Vents
3) Alternator Belt
4) Air Filter
5) Fuel Vents
6) Pitot - Static Systems

Flight

1) Soft Field Takeoff

 2) During the cruise in Class C Airspace, he asked SP to load the flight plan on the G1000
3) Intercept the flight plan
4) Divert to 28J
5) Listened to 28J AWOS (weather was not good) , Listened to KGNV ATIS, asked SP
what he thought of the weather?
6) Went to NPA and did maneuvers (Steep Turns, Power on/off stalls, slow flight with
maintaining a climb at 55 kts, descent d and turn, engine fire, emergency descent,
engine failure, chandelle, lazy eight, steep spiral, eights on pylons)
7) Landings at KFIN (Soft field, power off 180, short landing on the numbers)
8) Back to KDAB, What is the purpose ATC gave you this heading? (traffic separation)
9) Load the ILS 7L Approach
10) Normal landing on the Aiming Pt in KDAB

El Wood FAA Questions

1) Check the inspection records in the MX logbook (Make sure you can find them)
2) What does it mean to be PIC?
3) When you change your address, when do you need to notify the FAA?
4) What do you need to bring when you fly? What should be on the Aircraft?
5) Does a registration certificate expire?
6) What are ADs? Types?
7) If something is broken on the plan, what will you do? (91.213)
8) Who is responsible for complying with the inspections? Who is responsible to say that
the aircraft is airworthy?
9) What can you do / not do as a commercial pilot?
10) What is holding out? Private Carriage?
11) If you're working for me as my pilot to fly me somewhere with my airplane and suddenly
my airspace is down, but I really need to get to my meeting, can you get an airplane for
me and fly me to my meeting?
12) What kind of medicals do you need to have commercial privileges?How long is it valid
for?
13) How did you choose the Altitude for your route?
14) For the VFR Cruising Altitude, is it in True or Magnetic North?
15) What is Variation
16) Points in sectional chart and asks about airspace it is at certain altitudes and the
weather mins of that airspace
17) When a Class D airport is closed, what airspace does it become?
18) Shows a TRSA on the chart? What is it? Do you have to follow it?
19) What are the colors of the runway edge lights, taxiways, taxi center lights?
20) How would you give a pirep? Who can you contact?
21) What is pressure altitude?
22) What is DA, What will happen when you fly at high DA? Which three things will be
affected in your airplane? What affects DA?
 23) Know the Formulas for Pressure Alt and DA
24) What is TAS? Would you have a higher or lower TAS than indicated if you're flying at a
higher altitude? Why?
25) If I fly at an airport with an election of 3000ft, with 2550 lbs on a hot and humid day,
what should I expect?
26) What is hypoxia, hyperventilation?
27) What will happen when you turn on cabin heat?
28) Show me on the graph if you are within the limits of your aircraft at 2400 lbs and 41.7G,
what happens if we move it forward, aft? Stability?
29) What is a TAF? How often is it issued? How long is it valid? When it says in the vicinity
how wide is the coverage? Are the clouds reported in AGL or MSL?
30) What weather do you expect with a high pressure system?
31) If you accidentally enter a thunderstorm, you're already inside it, what do you do? What
speed will you mx?
32) What will you do when you're on a 5 mile final and there is reported wind shear?
33) What is a microburst?
34) If you don't know the altimeter setting for the airport youre at and the ATIS/AWOS/ASOS
is OTS, how will you set the altimeter? What is our Altimeter setting when we fly at
18,000’?
35) You have an aircraft that's been sitting on the ramp for 2 weeks at sea level and you
noticed that the altimeter is indicating a high altitude or high pressure? What type of
weather system just passed?
36) Do we stall at the same speed? What does not change when we stall? What affects stall
speed?
37) What type of engine do we have? What is a turbocharged engine?
38) If we are flying at 14500’, what are the oxygen requirements? What about when we are
flying at 35000’? How about when I go to the bathroom and leave you alone in the
cockpit?

Flight:
1) Soft field take off
2) Intercept flight plan (first pt)
3) Slow flight
4) Stalls (power on/off)
5) Chandelle
6) Steep turn
7) Engine Failure
8) 8’s on pylons
9) Diversion to KDED
10) Entering uncontrolled airport and the traffic procedures (Deland)
11) Soft Field Landing
12) Short Field Take Off
13) Short Field Landing
14) Power off 180
 15) No Flap Landing

Harper FAA Questions:

1) Commercial Pilot Privileges and Limitations

2) What kind of work can you do with a CPL?
3) Validity of a Class 1 and 2 medical
4) Required Inspections
5) Documents required to exercise cpl 61.3
6) What is an MEL?
7) 91.213
8) When do you need a special flight permit> What are the reasons for it?
9) What is an AD?
10) Asked about how the SP chose the route
11) Weight shift Calculation
12) VFR Fuel Requirements day and night
13) Pressure Altitude and Density Altitude
14) Short field and normal take off and landing distances
15) Top of Climb Calculations
16) Class C and D airspace weather mins
17) What is an MOA ?
18) Can you fly through a Restricted or Prohibited area?
19) When do they issue TFR and who can fly through them?
20) Weather Depiction, surface analysis, airmet, sigmet and convective sigmets
21) Engine System
22) Fuel System
23) Electric System
24) 91.205
25) If battery is low, how to jump start - whats the procedure
26) Preventative MX,
27) Hypoxia and hyperventilation
28) Scuba Diving and Decompression Sickness

Preflight:
-Lost comm, light gun signals
-All of the Antennas
- Number of Fuel Sumps

Flight:

1) Soft field take off

2) Intercept flight plan and lean
3) Diversion to KSAV using MFD
 4) Slow Flight Dirty
5) Steep Turns
6) Power on stall with 15 degree bank
7) Power off stall
8) Accelerated Stall
9) Chandelles in both directions
10) Engine Fire and Emergency Descent
11) Steep Spiral
12) Eights on Pylons
13) Ormond for power off 180, soft landings, go around
14) KDAB no flap landing

Steve Clegg FAA Questions ( Not a complete List )

1) What is a TFR? Where can we find out more about them?

2) Can you enter a bravo airspace? If yes, how?
3) ASI : What is the green arc called? Maximum Structural Cruising Speed, do not say
Normal Operation
4) Sectional chart: Airspaces, (do not say transition echo, just say echo or he goes into
deeper questions about airspace)
5) If you dont find something inop which is not listed in the MEL, is the aircraft airworthy?
He wants to hear that the MEL is always above 91.205 and that the MEL is a guide of
what equipment can be inop.
6) MX logbook, show him the aircraft is airworthy
7) V-speeds, when do you use Vx and Va?
8) What is a stall? First action to stop a stall? Recovery from a cross control stall?
9) What do you do if you enter a thunderstorm?
10) What is a servo tab, how does it work?
11) What is the angle of incidence?
12) Explain stability?
13) Different antennas of the c172. What do you check on the tires during preflight? Can
you fly without static wicks?
14) What is the DA formula?
15) How can you improve performance at a higher altitude?
16) How can you get the weather when enroute? FSS, where to find the frequency?
17) Airspace and weather requirements
18) Can you fly if visibility is less than 2 sm? * Special VFR
19) Know all the runway/taxiway lighting
20) What is the benefit of counter balance ailerons?
21) If you are in a spin and you have 3 seconds before hitting the ground, how do you
recover? (opp rudder and down elevator, hates when people say power idle)

** Clegg loves to ask about supplemental documents, so if you have a chart supplement, he will
check all the dates to make sure they are valid**
Masi Questions:

1) Maintenance Logbook, explain how you get the numbers

2) Flight plan, explain it
3) Weather Briefing (he will ask about fronts, turbulence, and all charts validity)
4) ELT Question, if your ELT is inop?
What are you going to do? Can you go for flight?
5) Ramp Check
6) If PEA CEO asks you to fly him to somewhere with his airplane, can you fly him?
7) Commercial Privileges
8) Fuel injection vs carburetor
9) What causes carburetor icing?
10) How to stay current?
11) Airspaces along the your flight plan route (Class D weather requirement, if your weather
is 1600 ceiling and 3 sm, can you land at class D?)
12) Chart symbols
13) Tire Pressure (POH)
14) What's the purpose of the short field landing?
15) If temp increases, how it affects your take off and landing distance?
16) Weight and Balance
17) Mountain survival Kit?
18) How to prevent runway incursion?
19) Secondary Flight Controls - how they work, why are they secondary?
20) Environmental System
21) Pressurization System
22) Oxygen Requirements
23) Motion Sickness (if your passenger looks green and he feels nauseous, what are you
going to do?)
24) Turbocharger
25) ADM (DECIDE MODEL)
What do I need in order to fly a STAR?
Is it common for us to fly STARs? Why or why not?

What equipment would we need to have at the minimum to fly Day IFR today?
*SP looks up GRABCARD*
-What is a directional Gyro? “Its a Gyro” what is a gyro? *Lists Principles*

What are the three types of approaches we can fly

What is the difference between a precision and APV approach
What are some examples of each type of approach
What is a NAVAID?

Working from the examples on the approaches we have now moved on to talking about the
systems for each navaid, starting with GPS, how does it work? Whats the network called? How
many satellites do we use in the system? RAIM/WAAS?

27) Types of approaches – precision, non-precision & APVs – ILS*, GLS, PAR. RNAV (what
is & types), GPS, ASR (normal / non-gyro), LOC, LOC BC, VOR*, NDB, LDA, SDF
28) The approach plates – duration / elements / segments of the approach
29) A/C Categories
30) Circling approaches
31) Procedure turns – type / time / airspeed / distance / NoPT
32) Visual approach vs Contact approaches
33) Missed approach procedures
34) Triangulation / Trilateration
35) Overlay & Standalone approaches
36) Terminal / non-terminal approaches
37) “Established”
38) Holding – entries / limitations (Time/ distance/ airspeed)
39) Holding without instructions
40) 91.175
41) ILS Critical area
42) FAF on ILS
43) LNAV, LNAV / VNAV, LPV – differences
44) RNP
45) Terminal arrival area
46) Departure Procedures – SIDs, ODPs
47) STARs
48) Autopilot – operation/ limitations
49) Visual Descent Point
50) “Baro-VNAV NA -15C + 48C”
51) “DME / DME RNP – 0.3 NA”
52) Airport environment