Pilot s Name: Certificate #: Aircraft: Date: Pre-Solo Written Test Preflight Operations: 1) Who is responsible for determining the airworthiness of a flight? 2) What personal documents must you have in your physical possession to fly solo? 3) What aircraft certificates and documents must be on board when flying? 4) What are your limitations as a student pilot? Can you carry passengers? Where can you go? What are your weather minimums? 5) You must wait hours from bottle (of alcohol) to throttle and have a blood alcohol level no greater than %. You may not fly while using any that affect the safety or your ability to perform your duties for the flight. Examples: 6) How do you recover from a Spin? P - A - R - E -
7) When is a safety belt required? When is a shoulder harness required? 8) What are the minimum equipment/instruments required for flight during the day? A - E - G - A - O - C - O - A - S - T - 9) My plane has a maximum fuel capacity of gal and usable. It burns gph which means at full fuel I can fly for about hours. The minimum fuel reserve required is min. Therefore, I can only plan to fly for hours. The fuel type is and its color is. Fuel weighs lbs/gal. 10) My plane has an oil capacity of to quarts. The plane is likely to burn more oil on: a) b) Flight Operations: 11) If two aircraft are approaching head on, each pilot should give way to the. If two aircraft are going the same direction and one is overtaking another, the aircraft has the right of way. The faster aircraft should pass on the. 12) Minimum Safe Altitude Rules: Except when taking off or landing, I must stay ft. AGL over congested areas. I must stay ft. from any person or property over other than congested areas. 13) Describe wind shear: Where is it most dangerous?
14) Describe wake turbulence and how to avoid it: 15) If you hear the stall warning horn what should be your first reaction? 16) How do you recover from a power off stall? 17) Describe the steps in detail of how you would perform a go-around. 18) On final you should for your airspeed and for your altitude. 19) Fill in the V-speed definitions/purposes and corresponding speeds for your aircraft: Speed Definition/Purpose: V SO V S1 V R V X V Y V FE V A V NO V NE V glide
Emergency Procedures: 20) Describe the procedures if you have an engine failure in flight: 21) Describe the procedures if you get an engine fire during starting: 22) Describe the procedure if you lose communications: 23) What is the likely cause if your engine RPM slowly drops or you hear engine roughness in flight? What do you do return the performance? 24) If the airport closed while you were soloing in the pattern describe in detail where would you go and how would you get there?
Airport Operations: 25) Draw your airport and traffic pattern procedures. Label each leg (ie. left base) 26) What are the following frequencies for your home airport? Tower: Ground: ATIS: 27) What is the meaning of each of the following ATC light signals? Steady Green Flashing Green Steady Red Flashing Red Flashing White Alternating Red/Green Ground Air I have completed and understand the pre-solo written test and have reviewed all areas with my instructor. Pilot s Signature: Date: CFI Signature: Print: