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Private Pilot Question of the Day
In a PIREP, what location is encoded by /OV DPK090020?
Twenty nautical miles on the 090-degree radial from DPK VOR.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
An unsaturated air sample warms at constant pressure without added or removed water vapor. How does its relative humidity change?
It decreases because saturation vapor pressure increases with temperature while the actual vapor amount remains unchanged.
Instrument Rating (Airplane) Question of the Day
How can a pilot avoid acting on the wrong engine?
Maintain control, identify using the aircraft procedure, verify by a deliberate non-destructive check, guard the operating engine, and move a critical control only after confirmation.
Instrument Rating (Helicopter) Question of the Day
How should a pilot control the risk of an OEI go-around or rejected landing in a multiengine helicopter?
Determine before the approach whether the RFM, weight, density altitude, wind, configuration, obstacle environment, and available power support the maneuver. Establish an early decision point, maintain the prescribed OEI speed and rotor RPM, use the approved power and configuration sequence, protect directional control and limits, and do not attempt the maneuver when actual performance cannot provide a safe escape path; use the safest available landing plan instead.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
During a floatplane takeoff in a crosswind, how can sideways drift develop into a waterloop or capsize?
The floats resist sideways motion while wind and turning forces can lift the upwind wing and drive the downwind float deeper into the water.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
What two conditions help a learner apply a skill outside training?
The skill must be understood and practiced well enough to be performed readily, and the learner must recognize the situations in which the skill should be used. The second condition depends on transfer of learning.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
What is the primary purpose of an aircraft trim system?
To reduce sustained pilot control force for a selected flight condition without replacing the primary flight controls.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
Why are tornadoes hazardous to small UAS operations?
Tornadoes produce extreme and rapidly changing winds, turbulence, debris, pressure changes, and severe weather beyond the visible funnel. Do not operate near tornadoes or severe thunderstorms; maintain generous distance and use official warnings and forecasts.
Advice of the Day
Maintain a consistent flight training schedule. Long breaks in any kind of training, but especially aviation, will cause a dramatic loss of progress.
System of the Day
Cabin Heating and Cooling Systems: Cabin Heating and cooling systems provide conditioned air for comfortable operations during various weather conditions
Maneuver of the Day
Steep Spirals: Steep Spirals improve pilot technique for power off turns, wind drift control, planning, orientation, and division of attention.
Emergency of the Day
Engine Failure: The total loss of power requires immediate actions which depend upon speed (life) and altitude (life insurance)
Mishap of the Day
ERA14LA450: The NTSB determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in a takeoff with the airplane's center of gravity aft of its limit and led the airplane to exceed its critical angle of attack and experience an aerodynamic stall during the initial climb.
