Chapter 3 Operations
1.
General aviation would include which of the following flights?
A) A charter flight by
a private business
B) A regional airline
flight from Kitchener
to Ottawa
C) A plane flying a
skydiving commercial
operation
D) A, B & C
E) A & C
2.
Organizations that wish to operate a commercial air operation, must obtain a(n)
A) Annex Approval
from ICAO
B) Air Operator
Certificate
C) Certified Airline
Operations
Accreditation
D) Civil Aviation
Authority Certificate
of Achievement
E) All of these
3a. Through which path to becoming an Airline pilot would I most likely be the first officer of a commercial flight
in about two years time?
A) Traditional pilot
progression
B) ICAO Aligned Pilot
Training
C) A college program
D) Ab Initio Pilot
Program
E) None of the above
3b.
In which piloting path would I be a first officer for a major airline in 18 months?
A) Corporate
program
B) Ab Initio
progression
C) Informal pilot path
position
D) Traditional pilot
progression
E) The Rent a Pilot
Halloween Costume
and look confident
model
4.
In the airline industry, what is generally the largest cost?
A) Maintenance and
overhaul
B) Pilot salaries
C) Fuel and oil
D) Aircrafts
E) Sales and
promotion
5.
Which of the following is NOT a trend in aviation today?
A) Increasing oil
prices
B) Liberalization of
open skies
C) Aviation growth
in Asia
D) Low cost carriers
E) Higher yields
6.
With which of the following situations MIGHT a pilot still be legally able to operate an aircraft?
A) Immediately after
drinking a bottle of
wine
B) Immediately after
taking a prescribed
sleeping pill
C) Immediately after
taking an anti-
depressant
D) Immediately after
snorting cocaine
E) A pilot could not
legally fly under any
of these situations
7.
If a large company had to make many flights each month with 15 employees between California and Ontario,
which of the following would probably make the LEAST sense in the long term?
A) Aircraft ownership
B) 25% fractional
ownership
C) Charter
D) Economy class
airline flights
E) 50% fractional
ownership
8.
Which is a calculation of the percentage of seats filled by fare-paying passengers on a leg of a flight?
A) Passenger load
factor
B) Available seat
kilometers
C) Revenue
passenger kilometers
D) Average unit
revenue
E) Unit costs
9.
English language proficiency would be required for which of the following routes?
A) Paris to Montreal
B) Lisbon to
Barcelona
C) Beijing to Tokyo
D) A, B, & C do NOT
require any English
to be spoken
E) A, B, & C ALL
require English
proficiency
10.
Which of the following would a pilot’s medical assessment evaluate?
A) Blood pressure
B) Hearing
C) Colour perception
D) Mental health
symptoms
E) All of the these
11.
Which of the following flights would NOT be considered part of General Aviation?
A) A private pilot
flying to a lake in
Northern Ontario to
do some fishing
B) Air Canada Flight
165 from St. John to
Montreal
C) A military flyover
at a Blue Jays game
D) A & B
E) B & C
12.
Which of the following is a pilot licensing authority NOT responsible for?
A) Issuing licenses
B) Training pilots
C) Designating
approved examiners
D) Assessing
qualifications
E) Approving training
courses
13.
Which of the following is NOT criteria for a pilot license?
A) Prerequisites
B) Training
C) Demonstration of
Competency
D) Currency
E) They are all
criteria
14.
Which of the following is true for pilots?
A) They require Class
certification for
different classes of
planes
B) They require Type
ratings for certain
types of aircraft
C) They require
certain ratings to fly
under certain
circumstances
D) A & C are true,
B is not
E) A, B & C are all
true
15.
Which of the following is a career advancement option for a pilot, based on their seniority within an airline?
A) Upgrade to
captain on the
current aircraft
B) Upgrade to first
officer on larger
aircraft type
C) Remain a first
officer on the
current aircraft
D) None of these are
options for career
advancement
E) All of A, B & C are
options for career
advancement
16.
Under ICAO Annex 1, to exercise the privileges of a professional pilot, he or she must have at
least a…
A) An Air
Operator’s
Certificate
B) An Instrument
Rating
C) A Commercial
Pilot License
D) A Basic
Airplane Pilot
License
E) None of the
above
17.
Which of these flights would qualify as general aviation?
A) A military
escort of the
Prime Minister’s
plane over
Manitoba
B) A commercial
skydiving
operation
C) A Westjet flight
flying from Halifax
to Vancouver
D) All three are
part of general
aviation
E) None of these
18.
According to ICAO Annex 1, which of these is NOT a prerequisite for a piloting license?
A) Demonstration
of competency
B) Currency
C) Minimum age
D) Training
E) All of these are
required by ICAO
19.
Which of these could be added to a license as a rating or class?
A) Land
B) Sea
C) Type
D) Single-engine
E) All of these
20.
Globally, airline profits
A) Sank drastically
in 2015
B) Rose in 2001
C) Sank
dramatically in
2008
D) Rose in 1990
E) All of the above
21.
Which of these medical classes has the strictest criteria?
A) Class 2
B) Class 3
C) Class 4
D) Class 1
E) Class 5
22.
Which of these is NOT a type of pilot license?
A) CPL
B) ATPL
C) MPL
D) MTL
E) PPL
23.
Which aviation professional matches best with subjects stated below?
– Control and supervise flights,
– Provide briefings and assist the pilot-in-command in identifying a safe and expeditious route
for the flight,
– Minimum age: 21.
A) ATC
B) Flight attendant
C) Dispatcher
D) First officer
E) Flight engineer
Chapter 3 Operations
Case Study
1.
The tragedy of Eastern Airlines 212 led to
A) The creation of
CVRs
B) Single Pilot
Resource
Management
Programs
C) Standardization of
ATC communication
D) The sterile
cockpit rule
E) All of these
2.
The Crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 demonstrated:
A) That # of flight
hours does not
always translate
into Captain
Competency
B) Failure to
adhere to the
sterile cockpit rule
can lead to
devastating
mistakes
C) Regional Airlines
need to ensure an
atmosphere in which
pilots can say no to a
flight if they are
physiologically unable
to safely fly
D) A failure to
monitor airspeed
can lead to disaster
E) All of the above are
true statements
3.
Following the tragedy of Eastern Airlines 212, the Federal Aviation Administration enacted the sterile cockpit
rule prohibiting non-flight-related conversation during critical phases of flight.
Which is NOT considered as one of the sterile cockpit rule?
A) Restricting
cabin crew entry
onto the flight
deck during
critical flight
phases
B) Restricting
pilots’ use of
personal electronic
devices during
critical flight
phases
C) Prohibition of non-
flight-related
conversation below
certain altitude
D) Prohibition of
pilot’s
announcements to
passengers
E) None of these
4.
In the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407, the reduction in airspeed, the stick-shaker and stall warning were not
realized by pilots. What should you do if you got a stall warning?
A) Increase the
nose of the
aircraft and then
apply power
B) Increase the
nose of the aircraft
C) Lower the nose of
the aircraft and then
apply power
D) Lower the nose
of the aircraft
E) Lower the nose of the
aircraft and then don’t
change power
5.
In the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 991 – Dangerous Goods Accident, salvage ships, remotely operated
vehicles, submarine rescue ships, trawling boats, and divers recovered about 40 per cent of the aircraft
and 15 per cent of the cargo, but failed to recover either the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder.
What is the primary purpose of recovery efforts?
A) To find
evidence for
insurance
company as much
as possible
B) To deliver the
cargo as much as
possible
C) To keep the
environment clean
and prevent pollution
as much as possible
D) To find out the
reasons of the
accident and
prevent similar
future accident
E) None of these