PRE-SOLO WRITTEN EXAM. Student Name:

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1 PRE-SOLO WRITTEN EXAM Student Name: Date: Instructor Name: INTRODUCTION As specified in FAR 61.87, you must demonstrate satisfactory knowledge of appropriate portions of FAR Parts 61 and 91 to an authorized instructor. This demonstration must include the satisfactory completion of a written examination to be administered and graded by the instructor who endorses your student pilot certificate for solo flight. In addition to questions of the applicable regulations, the written exam must include questions on the flight characteristics and operational limitations for the make and model aircraft to be flown. Advisory Circular , Pre-solo Written Test, indicates that you also should have adequate knowledge to operate safely during solo flight in your local training environment. If the surrounding area includes controlled airspace, such as Class B, C, D, or E airspace, you may be asked to answer appropriate questions on operations in those areas. Remember, all questions are open book. If you use a source to answer a question note the source and page number (or FAR number and page) for easy reference. Draw a diagram whenever necessary and use another sheet of paper if you would like. Most of the answers can be found in FAR 61, FAR 91, the AIM, and your aircraft POH. This must be completed and given to your instructor prior to you flying solo. All incorrect questions will be corrected prior to final approval. PRESOLO WRITTEN EXAM Pilot Requirements

2 1. What personal documents and endorsements are you required to have before you fly solo? (FAR 61.87) 2. What age and medical requirements must a student meet in order to be able to solo? 3. What section of the FARs (CFRs) covers pilot certification? 4. What are your student pilot limitations regarding carriage of passengers or cargo and flying for compensation or hire? (FAR 61.89) 5. May a Student pilot fly solo at night? (FAR section m) 6. May a student pilot fly for any business related reason? 7. When may a student fly to another airport without a logbook endorsement by the instructor for that particular f light? (FAR 61.93) 8. How recently must the student's logbook have been endorsed to allow solo flight? 9. What is required before a student may operate an aircraft in class B airspace (FAR 61.95) 10. What are the required documents on board an aircraft at all times? (AROW) 11. Who has the final authority and responsibility for the operation of the aircraft when you are flying solo? (FAR 91.3) 12. In addition to equipment requirements and a student pilot certificate, what other requirement(s), if any, must be met before a student pilot is authorized to fly solo within Class B airspace?

3 Charts, Airport Operations, Airspace and Visibility 13. What do the numbers on the end of the runway indicate? 14. When flying near an uncontrolled airport, radio communications are broadcast "in the blind". What information should be in each of your transmissions. 15. If the airport elevation is 520 ft, what is the traffic pattern altitude? 16. If an altimeter setting is not available, how should you set the altimeter before flight? 17. If an altimeter setting is available, how much difference can there be in the altimeter indication and the actual field elevation for the altimeter to be "airworthy"? 18. What is the proper way to enter the landing pattern at an uncontrolled airport? 19. What class airspace is this airport in? 20. When are two way radio communications established? 21. What are the legs of the traffic pattern called? 22. What are the traffic patterns for each runway at your airport? What is the MSL altitude for the traffic pattern? 23. How do you enter and exit the traffic pattern at your airport? What, if any, radio communications are required? 24. What radio calls are recommended in the traffic pattern at an uncontrolled airport? What radio calls are required at your airport? 25. What is the standard direction of turns in the traffic pattern? Give an example of a visual display indicating a nonstandard traffic pattern. 26. What is CTAF? Explain CTAF procedures at your training airport(s).

4 27. How can you determine if a runway is closed? 28. Briefly state why it is important to use checklists. 29. Discuss what preflight action concerning the airport and aircraft performance is specified in the regulations for a local flight. 30. During engine run up, you cause rocks, debris, and propeller blast to be directed toward another aircraft or person. Could this be considered careless or reckless operations of an aircraft? 31. You may not fly as pilot of a civil aircraft within hours after consumption of any alcoholic beverage, or while you have % by weight or more alcohol in your blood. 32. What are the general requirements pertaining to the use of safety belts and shoulder harnesses? 33. A transponder with Mode C is required at all times in all airspace at and above 10,000 feet MSL, excluding that airspace at and below feet AGL. 34. Complete this sentence. No person may operate an aircraft so close to another aircraft as to create a. 35. Who has the right-of-way when two aircraft are on final approach to land at the same time? (FAR ) 36. What action do you need to take if you are overtaking another aircraft and which aircraft has the right-of-way? What should you do if you are flying a head-on collision course with another aircraft? If another single-engine aircraft is converging from the right, who has the right-of-way? (FAR ) 37. Except when necessary for takeoffs and landings, what are the minimum safe altitudes when flying over congested and other than congested areas? (FAR )

5 38. When practicing steep turns, stalls, and maneuvering during slow flight, the entry altitude must allow a recovery to be completed no lower than feet AGL. 39. When is a go-around appropriate? Aircraft Questions 40. Fill in the following airspeeds for the aircraft you will be flying and state what each airspeed is for a) V N POH Rotation speed b) V X Best angle of climb speed c) V Y Best Rate of Climb Speed d) VNE NEVER exceed speed e) V SO Stalling Speed, landing configuration_ f ) V FE Maximum Flap extension speed g ) V A Typical approach speed 41. What flight instruments need to be set before takeoff on every flight 42. How much gas does this aircraft hold? How much of that capacity is considered to be usable? POH 43. On a standard day (sea level temperature, 59 degrees F, altimeter in. Hg.), the fuel consumption rate during normal (approximately 75% power) cruise is gallons per hour. 44. What is the best glide speed for your training airplane? MPH. 45. What is the maximum allowable flap setting for takeoff in your aircraft? degrees. 46. What grade or grades of fuel can be safely used in your aircraft. What are the colors of the recommended fuels? What happens to be the color of the fuel if two grades are mixed. 47. The maximum oil capacity of your aircraft is quarts, and the minimum oil capacity to begin a flight is quarts. 48. The maximum crosswind component specified by your instructor for solo takeoffs and landings in the training aircraft is knots. 49. How many minutes of fuel remaining are you required to have on landing (during day, VFR flight)? 50. What is the empty weight of this aircraft? W&B sheet

6 51. What is the maximum weight of this aircraft? _POH 52. What are you checking during the pre-flight engine run-up? 53. Why do you need to use right rudder during takeoff and climb? 54. When do you use Carburetor heat and why? 55. What does the "mixture" control do? For touch-n-goes where should it be? 56. At what speed should the aircraft be flying at mid-field downwind? (POH) 57. Why do we use flaps in the landing pattern? 58. What airspeed should the aircraft be at on short final? _(POH) 59. In case of engine failure shortly after takeoff, what is the best course of action? 60. What general steps should you follow after an engine failure in flight?