JAA ATPL Question Bank

010 - AIR LAW AND ATC PROCEDURES 021 - AIRFRAME AND SYSTEMS, ELECTRICS, POWERPLANT, EM. EQUIPMENT 022 - INSTRUMENTATION 031 - MASS AND BALANCE - AEROPLANES 032 - PERFORMANCE - AEROPLANES 033 - FLIGHT PLANNING AND FLIGHT MONITORING 040 - HUMAN PERFORMANCE 050 - METEOROLOGY 061 - GENERAL NAVIGATION 062 - RADIO NAVIGATION 071 - OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES 081 - PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT - AEROPLANE 091 - VFR COMMUNICATIONS 092 - IFR COMMUNICATIONS

[ATPL TOPICS] BASICS OF NAVIGATION MAGNETISM AND COMPASSES CHARTS DEAD RECKONING NAVIGATION (DR) IN-FLIGHT NAVIGATION INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS (INS)

[ATPL SUBTOPICS] General Principles Aircraft Magnetism Principles - Direct & Remote Reading Compasses

1 | What is the advantage of the remote indicating compass (slaved gyro compass) over the dire 2 | What is an advantage of a gyro-magnetic compass over a direct reading compass? 3 | In a typical remote reading compass, the gyro is kept aligned with the magnetic meridian b 4 | The sensitivity of a direct reading compass varies: 5 | The directive force acting on a compass needle in an aircraft: 6 | In still air, you wish to fly a true of 315° . Variation is 4° W. Deviation is 7 | The direct reading magnetic compass is made aperiodic (dead beat) by: 8 | A direct reading compass should be swung when: 9 | Which one of the following is an advantage of a remote reading compass as compared with a 10 | What is the purpose of the Annunciator in a gyromagnetic compass? 11 | Given true track 352° , variation 11° W, deviation -5° and drift 10° 12 | If true HDG is 165° and variation -3 what is magnetic heading? 13 | Which of the following is an occasion for carrying out a compass swing on a Direct Reading 14 | The main advantage of a remote indicating compass over a direct reading compass is that it 15 | Why are the detector units of slaved gyro compasses usually located in the aircraft wingti 16 | If compass HDG is 340° and deviation +3, what is magnetic heading? 17 | A Landing Compass: 18 | The Annunciator of a remote indicating compass system is used when: 19 | In a remote indicating compass system the amount of deviation caused by aircraft magnetism 20 | In the calculation of deviation, the following headings are recorded: MH CH 358 356 091 08 21 | Coefficient A is corrected for: 22 | The main reason for mounting the detector unit of a remote reading compass in the wingtip 23 | The sensitivity of a direct reading magnetic compass is: 24 | The main reason for usually mounting the detector unit of a remote indicating compass in t 25 | The purpose of compass check swing is to: 26 | An aircrafts compass must be swung: