This document summarizes the rules and content of a semester 1 review game for aviation students. It provides the categories and point values that will be covered, as well as the rules of play which include only allowing one speaker at a time and a time limit for answering questions. The review covers topics like basics of flight, aircraft instruments, signs and markings, traffic patterns, communication and miscellaneous questions. It includes sample questions, answers and instructions that would be used in the review game.

1. Semester 1 Review
Groups B/C/D
First Year Beginning
Second Year Advanced

2. Rules
• ONE person may speak at a time
• Hand must be raised in order to answer
(sorry... that rule is no fun)
• Opposing team can steal if question cannot be
answered in a reasonable amount of time
• Interruptions will result in a 100 point
deduction
• Winning team receives FAA “Crossing the
Line” water bottles!!

3. How many people can speak at a time?
ONE!!

4. Home - Categories
Basics of Aircraft Signs, Traffic
Flight Instruments Markings, Pattern Communication Miscellaneous
and Diagrams
100 100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500 500
FINAL JEOPARDY

5. HOME
Basics of Flight: 100
• What is the name of the scientific principle
that allows an airfoil to create lift, and who is
it credited to?
Bernoulli’s Principle, Daniel Bernoulli

6. HOME
Basics of Flight: 200
• What are the four forces of flight and in which
directions do they act?
Lift, up; Weight/Gravity, down;
Thrust, forward; Drag, downward

7. HOME
Basics of Flight: 300
• Define the following terms:
– Angle of Attack
– Critical Angle of Attack
Angle of Attack - angle between wing
chord and relative wind
Critical Angle of Attack - AOA in
which the wing cannot produce
sufficient lift and stalls if exceeded

8. HOME
Basics of Flight: 400
• Explain in general how the control surfaces of
the airplane work when manipulated.
When a control surface is lowered or
raised, it either adds to or takes
away from the available surface area
of that airfoil to produce lift. When
the control surface is lowered,
surface area is increased, therefore
lift is increased and vice versa.

9. HOME
Basics of Flight: 500
• Explain how an airfoil produces lift.
Air is separated at the leading edge of the
wing. According to Bernoulli’s Principle, a
fluid’s pressure decreases as velocity
increases. Because the top half of the airfoil
has a greater distance than the bottom half,
the air on top must travel faster than the air
on the bottom in order to meet together at
the same point at the trailing edge of the
wing. This creates low air pressure on the
top of the wing and high air pressure on the
bottom, which keeps the plane airborne.

10. HOME
Aircraft Instruments: 100
• What instruments consist of the “standard six
pack?”
1. Airspeed Indicator
2. Attitude Indicator
3. Altimeter
4. Turn Coordinator
5. Heading Indicator
6. Vertical Speed Indicator

11. HOME
Aircraft Instruments: 200
• Does the airspeed indicator indicate speed
through the air or over the ground?
Through the air (AIRspeed indicator)

12. HOME
Aircraft Instruments: 300
• What three pieces of information does the
attitude indicator tell you at a glance?
1. Degrees of pitch
2. Degrees of bank
3. Climb or descent

13. HOME
Aircraft Instruments: 400
• What outside element effects the changes for
the altimeter and the vertical speed indicator
and what measures this element?
Air pressure measured by static port

14. HOME
Aircraft Instruments: 500
• Your attitude indicator has just failed. What
other instruments can you use that will tell
you the same information and why?
1. Turn Coordinator - indicates bank
2. VSI - indicates climb or descent,
remember 4 second delay!

15. HOME
Signs, Markings, and Diagrams: 100
• What do the colors of the backgrounds of
signs on the field mean (red, yellow, black)?
1. red = caution
2. yellow = direction
3. black = location

16. HOME
Signs, Markings, and Diagrams: 200
• What are the two types of X’s, where are they
found, and what do they mean?
Raised and painted; runways and
taxiways; closed

17. HOME
Signs, Markings, and Diagrams: 300
• What is the purpose of hold short lines? What
are the consequences for crossing them
without authorization?
Hold short lines are to keep planes
out of potentially hazardous areas
such as runways without an ATC
clearance. If crossed without a
clearance, pilots can get an
infraction warning from the FAA and
possibly have their license revoked.

18. HOME
Signs, Markings, and Diagrams: 400
• What do the amount of lines that consist of
the threshold indicate to pilots?
By counting the amount of lines that
make up the runway threshold, a
pilot can determine the width (left to
right) of the runway. This is
especially useful in emergency
landing situations to ensure the
plane will fit on the runway.

19. HOME
Signs, Markings, and Diagrams: 500
• Give at least four examples of pertinent
information that can be found on an airport
diagram.
1. airport information
2. runways (dimensions/elevations)
3. taxiways
4. ramps
5. world coordinates
6. magnetic variation
7. currency dates

20. HOME
Traffic Pattern: 100
• What are the legs of the traffic pattern in
order?
Upwind, Crosswind, Downwind,
Base, and Final

21. HOME
Traffic Pattern: 200
• How can the traffic pattern be related
mathematically?
The traffic pattern represents a big
rectangle. With each turn,
depending on the direction, a
heading can be assigned to each leg
given the heading on takeoff.

22. HOME
Traffic Pattern: 300
• Which directional pattern is standard and
what would be the reason for not following
this standard?
standard: left-hand
We would fly a right-hand traffic
pattern in the case of parallel
runways because if both runways
use the left-hand pattern, the
patterns would overlap each other.

23. HOME
Traffic Pattern: 400
• According to standard, at which points in the
traffic pattern do you enter and exit?
Enter: mid-downwind
Exit: straight upwind

24. HOME
Traffic Pattern: 500
• Describe the six major checkpoints
throughout the traffic pattern.
1. upwind - begin crosswind turn
approximately 700 ft. AGL
2. downwind - level off at 1,000 ft. AGL and
power back to approximately 2300 RPM
3. downwind - abeam #s... power, pitch,
flaps, 85 knots
4. base - flaps 20, 75 knots
5. final - flaps full, 65 knots
6. final - idle power and flare over
threshold

25. HOME
Communication: 100
• What are the 4 Ws?
1. Who you’re addressing
2. Who you are
3. Where you are
4. What you want

26. HOME
Communication: 200
• Who controls ramps and taxiways, and who
controls runways and airspace?
Ground: ramps/taxiways
Tower: runways/airspace

27. HOME
Communication: 300
• Transmit to Peachtree Ground given the
following information:
– Peachtree Tower
– Cessna 78253
– Epps Ramp
– VFR to the north
Peachtree Tower, Cessna 78253 is on
the Epps ramp, VFR to the north
with information.

28. HOME
Communication: 400
• Read back the following ATC instructions:
– Cessna 78253, Peachtree Tower. Cleared to land runway
2L, number 3 behind the Mooney, advise traffic in sight.
Winds are 30 at 4. Caution: cranes are operating in the
vicinity and balloons are being released from the ground
approximately 03 miles to the south of the field.
Peachtree Tower, Cessna 78253.
Cleared to land runway 2L, number 3
behind the Mooney and will advise.

29. HOME
Communication: 500
• Read back the following ATC instructions:
– Cessna 78253, Peachtree Tower. Fly midfield at or above
2,000, enter left downwind runway 2L and I’ll call your
base.
Peachtree Tower, Cessna 78253. Fly
midfield at or below 2,000, left
downwind runway 2L.

30. HOME
Miscellaneous: 100
• How should one perform the preflight
inspection in order not to accidentally skip
anything on the checklist?

31. HOME
Miscellaneous: 200
• Why can ice be harmful when it builds up on
the airframe of the plane?
You don’t want this to
Ice buildup on the plane, especially happen! By the way, this
on the wings, can drastically change is an Airbus.
the shape of the airfoil, therefore
not allowing it to produce lift the
same way which is potentially
dangerous.

32. HOME
Miscellaneous: 300
• Why does Vs increase as the weight of the
plane increases?
The more weight you put in the
plane, the more lift you need to
support that weight; therefore, the
stall speed will increase as you add
weight to the plane.

33. HOME
Miscellaneous: 400
• For how long should you hold the nose fuel
sump?
Approximately 4 seconds

34. HOME
Miscellaneous: 500
• How many counterbalances does the aileron
have?
3

35. FINISH
Final Jeopardy
Place your wagers. Minimum = 100
• What does ATP stand for and what is the main
use of this certification?
Airline Transport Pilot - mostly used
for airline captains because the
captain is required to hold an ATP

36. Game Over
• Congratulations to the winning team!!!