Top 10 Private Pilot FAA Test Questions Missed

hey everyone john here from fly8mcalpha.com and today we are talking the top 10 toughest private pilot written test questions you could see on your written exam the top 10 most often missed questions do you have what it takes to answer all 10 of these correctly let's find out all right whether you already are a private pilot or you are working on getting your product license and you're studying for that written exam it's always fun to review these questions and see if you actually have that knowledge from way back when or if you have the knowledge you need right now to go past that written exam coming up here in the near future so first question i have for you talking about weather in the adis the absence of the sky condition and visibility on an adis broadcast indicates that what the weather conditions are at or above vfr minimums the sky condition is clear and visibility unrestricted or the ceiling is at least five thousand feet and visibility is five miles or more well the absence of the sky condition and visibility on the atis does indicate that the ceiling is at least five thousand feet and the visibility is five miles or more that is the correct answer next up switching gears here to not so fun stuff accidents ntsb reporting if an aircraft is involved in an accident which results in substantial damage to the aircraft the nearest ntsb field office should be notified within 48 hours immediately or within seven days now this can be a little confusing because we have some other things in aviation that require a 48 hour report but in this case the ntsb field office should be notified immediately they want to know right away if there's an accident that involves substantial damage to an aircraft and the report will be required from the pilot or from the operator within 10 days so if they want the report it's going to be 10 days for the report but the notification is required immediately and then the 48-hour deal that gets kind of confusing that's if atc requests a report from you in the event something goes wrong you declare an emergency something like that they may request a report and then if they do then you have 48 hours to fill out that report in the case of atc but this is ntsb so for the ntsb if there's an accident and notify them immediately complete the report if applicable within 10 days next up we have a chart supplement excerpt here to take a look at and they say refer to the diagram below or in this case the diagram on your screen which type radar service is provided to vfr aircraft at lincoln municipal is it sequencing to the primary class c airport in conflict resolution so that radar targets do not touch or 1000 feet vertical separation is it sequencing to the primary class c airport traffic advisories conflict resolution and safety alerts or sequencing to the primary class c airport and standard separation well in this case the correct answer is going to be sequencing to the primary class c airport traffic advisories conflict resolution and safety alerts that is what you're going to get in terms of radar service from lincoln municipal and we know that by checking the chart supplement showing that this is radar service from a class c airport and in class c airspace you are still responsible for vfr separation from you and other traffic you still have to see and avoid they don't take over responsibility for your separation between you and other traffic so no separation services are really provided but they do give you traffic alerts advisories any sort of conflict resolution like hey do you see the traffic at 12 o'clock oh you don't we'll suggest to turn 20 degrees right for traffic or something like that so that is what you can expect from class c airsports class b airports they take a little bit more responsibility for separation between actual aircraft and ensure separation between aircraft to do their best to but still as vfr pilots we're always responsible for seeing a void moving on to number four here looking at the sectional chart the radius of the procedural outer area of class c airspace is normally what five nautical miles 10 nautical miles 20 nautical miles the procedural area that is the key here all right the radius of the procedural outer area of class c air space that is the key words here that we have to pick up on because class c air space really is five nautical mile radius inner circle 10 nautical mile radius outer circle and the outer procedural area is a 20 nautical mile radius as evidenced by those little boxes we see on the sectional charts that say contact such and such approach within 20 nautical miles so 20 nautical mile radius for the outer procedural area for classy procedures like calling up approach now how about a little bit of math to warm up our brains here whipping out the e6b if you have an electronic e6b that is totally fine too but the question i have for you on the written exam is how far how many nautical miles how many miles is your aircraft going to go traveling 98 knots for 14 and a half minutes so in 14 and a half minutes how far will you go traveling at 98 knots well we have a few options here but let's just find the exact answer rather than trying to guess between three here let's whip this guy out and say our rate is 98 knots we take our rate indicator there we're going to twist that on over there's 100 the 10 is going to represent 100 i'm going to twist it over two little notches there to represent 98 so right between 90 and 100 98 obviously i'm adding a zero on my head there and as we come around here i'm going to pinch this guy twist them around i'm going to read my time from the inner scale here i'm going to read my time as 14 and a half minutes right between 14 and 15 there i'm going to read well that's about 23.6 23.7 miles is how far we would go now let's see if we want to do this another way 98 knots 14 and a half minutes how could we do this just on a simple four function calculator you'll simply go ahead and say 14 and a half minutes divided by 60 to find out what portion of an hour we're talking about so about a quarter of an hour 0.2416 then we're going to multiply that by our rate or our speed 98 knots we're gonna find 23.68 23.7 nautical miles is the distance traveled that is the correct answer all right now let's switch gears here and look at some charts for starters the density altitude chart what is the effect of a temperature increase from 35 degrees to 50 degrees fahrenheit a 15 degree fahrenheit increase on the density altitude if the pressure altitude remains at 3000 ft msl well the right way to do this is to go ahead and draw a line from your starting temperature and to the starting pressure altitude pressure altitude remains same here so we're going to go from 35 fahrenheit on up to 3000 and then over towards the left side there and read our density altitude and we're going to do the same with 50 degrees fahrenheit working straight up and then hitting that 3000 foot line moving over and reading that we have about 28.50 in 1850 so the difference between that is about a thousand foot increase when we increase the temperature 15 degrees now as a little side note a little cheating measure here density altitude tends to increase about a thousand feet per 15 degrees fahrenheit so whenever you're faced with one of these problems on the written exam remember 15 degrees fahrenheit equals 1000 feet increase in density altitude now this one confuses a lot of folks even commercial and cfi applicants so let's see the math behind it all right so let's think back to when you're trying to balance a seesaw when you're a kid and one kid was bigger than the other you're trying to get that thing to balance the exact same principle we're trying to balance upon our datum point right there and we want the left side to be in equilibrium with the right we want the left to equal the right so we need to figure out how much we have to move this 500 pound weight to make that happen so let's just go ahead and write 500 times x and that's going to equal x is going to be the distance right now it's 15 but we want to know how much we have to change it is the question how much to be shifted to balance the plank on the fulcrum with the 250 pound weight there and the weight of the plank so 500 x some distance is going to equal 250 times 20 plus a 200 pound plank with a cg of 15 inches so 200 times 15. we do that math and 250 times 20 is going to be 5000 and then we have 200 times 15 equals 3 000. so we have 8 000 on the right hand side we need that's equal on the left hand side so we have 500 x equals 8 000 so 8 000 divided by 500 right back to basic algebra divide by 500 and x is going to equal 16 and that is the correct answer the possible answers we have are one inch to the left one inch to the right four and a half inches to the right well we want to go one inch to the left which will make 15 become 16 and that is our answer here we have a pretty normal problem asking us what is the total distance required to land so we have some givens 32 degrees fahrenheit really always important to look at if it's fahrenheit or celsius pressure altitude is 8 000 feet our weight is 2 600 pounds headwind component 20 knots pretty yeah pretty good headwind component there lots of wind blown right on the nose and the obstacle that we have to clear is 50 feet now let's take a look at how this chart works here right so we're going to take our givens like 32 degrees fahrenheit so we look at our fahrenheit scale find 32 right about oh there we're going to work up from that we're going to just draw ourselves a line and we can say the pressure altitude 8 000 feet we are up somewhere awfully high so we want to look at the 8 000 feet line see where it intersects right there and we want to come straight across to our reference line as straight as you can use use a straight edge or a ruler if you can so you don't wind up with a squiggly line like mine there so we hit our reference line here the next thing we want to do is look at our weight so 2 600 pounds is our weight we can draw a little dashed reference line there for us just to help us remember but ultimately what we want to do we want to come from our reference line here where we came over and follow these trend lines follow the nearest trend line down until we hit this point and then we're going to go straight across to the next reference line so what that looks like is oh just kind of approximating the general direction these two lines are going following them down intersecting there and then working our way straight across now these red arrows that are on the chart here are simply just an example so that if you forget how this chart works during your written exam you can use it as an example try to ignore them for our purposes here so we've followed our reference lines down to 2 600 pounds obviously the heavier you weigh you can see here the higher up on the chart we'd be if we look higher up on the chart it takes more distance the more we can move down this chart the less distance required to land so we've moved down the chart a little bit because we're not too heavy we move straight over to our next reference line and now we put in the headwind component all right so headwind component tailwind obviously is going to increase our landing distance a headwind is going to decrease our landing distance so we follow our headwind lines the tailwind lines are the dashed ones headwind lines are solid they're labeled there for us we can remember to 20. so we're going to put a little reference line in there at 20. we're going to follow this line down right there and then we're going to work straight across from there so we followed our line down to 20 we worked straight across and now what kind of obstacle do we have to clear well obviously if there is no obstacle we would just come straight across we'd say hey about a thousand feet because we have to clear a 50-foot obstacle well it's going to take more distance for us to land because we have to come in higher we're going to have a lot of runway left behind us before we can get the airplane down to the ground so we're going to have to follow up these trend lines here follow up the closest trend line and we get somewhere around 14 to 1500 feet comfortably i'd say that somewhere there and let's look at our possible answers here the three possible answers are 850 feet we have 1400 feet that sounds promising and we have uh 1750 feet 1750 feet obviously i'd say my answer is somewhere between 14 1500 so i'm gonna go with 1400 and that is the correct answer for this problem alright so moving into vrs what radial is the aircraft crossing well with the vr indication showing how i try to figure these out is simply draw a dot on a scratch sheet of paper to represent the vor draw four quadrants and so that represents our radials right our 360 radial 0 9 0 1 8 0 2 7 0 and so on now we are centered up here with our cdi and we have a from indication so i'm going to go ahead and draw in the radial that we're dialed into so we're dialed into two one zero with the obs selector so i'll draw in the 210 radial also draw on the zero three zero radial as a dashed line there we can see we have a from indication so we're 210 from the station therefore our aircraft is right here therefore we are crossing the 210 radial all right now what if we had a two flag indication then it would be 210 to get to the station so then we would be crossing the zero three zero radial if we had a two indication with the from indication we're crossing the two one zero radial with this vor showing now testing your vot knowledge with vors when the cdi needle is centered using a vor test signal of vot the obs and the two from indicator should read 180 from only if the pilot is due north of the vot 02 or 180 from regardless of the pilot's position from the vot or zero from and 182 regardless of the pilot's position from the vot well keep in mind here that when you're using a vot your position relative to it does not matter and the vot broadcasts out nothing but the 360 radial therefore you would be zero degrees from it or 180 to the station so if you're on the 360 radial you're zero degrees from it or 180 to get to the station when it's broadcasting out that 360 radial so the correct answer is zero degrees from or 182 regardless of the pilot's position from the vot okay last question for you guys during operations outside controlled airspace at altitudes of more than 1200 feet agl but less than 10 000 feet in a cell the minimum flight visibility for day vfr flight is one mile three miles or five miles now this is a real gotcha question because people oftentimes say oh well i'm in classy airspace so three miles applies here because i'm below ten thousand feet myself they're missing the whole key here during operations outside controlled airspace at altitudes of more than 1200 feet agl still in class g airspace even though you're more than 1200 agl still in class g because you are outside controlled airspace so this is one of those kind of random examples where class g airspace actually extends above 1200 feet agl and of course it always ends at 14 500 that's the highest class g can ever go but in this case you are in class g airspace and daytime vfr is one mile visibility in this case well congratulations guys i'm assuming you all got all of those correct but if not hopefully it was helpful informative maybe you learned something maybe you surprised yourself about something you may have forgotten or used to know way back when either way we've snuck in one extra one on there so that was 11 questions total the top 11 in our experience that we see missed on private pilot written exams now if you do want to be guaranteed to pass your prior pilot written exam i would highly recommend you click on the link in the description below and check out the private pilot written prep boot camp online at flight 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exams and check rides you can too as always guys if you cannot fly everyday fly eightmikealpha.com thanks for watching we'll see you all in the next one all right well then i have a question for you my question is when we look at this airport here it says uh right on the sectional chart here how long the runway is it has that number there so is that how long the runway is is that how much room you have available for landing well in some instances that is the amount of room that you have but in other instances there is a displaced threshold which means that you have slightly less room to land and you can use that threshold to take off but not to land so for example the sarasota airport says 95 there does that mean there's 9500 feet available for landing not necessarily and you would have to look at your chart supplement

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Published: Thu Jan 07 2021