General Knowledge

Rando facts that I've accumulated throughout flying!!

Procedure to Climb and recover from climb

• Look out → traffic ??

• Look in → Carb heat cold, mixture rich, fuel both

• Attitude

• Power

• Trim

Procedure to decent and recover from a descent

• Look out → traffic ?

• Look in → FLOW CHECK

• Power

• Attitude

• Trim

Rapid drop in altimeter setting means?

Approaching low pressure system → thunderstorms

Runway change procedure : eg L downwind 26 to R downwind 08

180 turn away from runway

General runway change procedure

Downwind left turn → fly midfield → left turn to join changed runway mid-downwind.

Circuit height is ___ ft abc field elevation?

1000 ft

Landing visual Illusions due to upslope and downslope runway

• Upslope → Looks higher than normal

• Downslope → Looks lower than normal

Landing visual illusions due to featureless terrain

Tendency to fly lower than usual

Landing visual Illusions due to bright runway and approach lights

Airport looks closer that it actually is → leads to low and steep approach

Landing visual illusions created by steep and shallow surrounding terrain to the runway

• Steep surrounding terrain → Looks like you are lower

• Shallow surrounding terrain → Looks like you are higher

Landing visual illusions created due to narrow and wide runway

• Narrow → Looks too high

• Wide → Looks too low

FLOW check

• Primer Locked

• Master On

• Mags Both

• Circuit breakers In

• Carb heat On

• Mixture Rich

• Fuel Both

Downwind check

• Primer Locked

• Master On

• Mags Both

• Circuit breakers In

• Carb heat On

• Mixture Rich

• Fuel Both

• Tap breaks

Immediately after landing

• BREAKKKKK

• Flaps Up

• Carb heat Off

• Radios Set

• Transponder Standby

• Landing time Note

On a normal approach, start to reduce power and extend flaps, when?

When abeam the runway threshold !!

On approach, if you’re low, _____; if you’re high ____

• Low → add power

• High → take out power

Wake turbulence procedure if I’m taking off behind a large aircraft

Rotate before their rotation point , and remain above their path

Wake turbulence procedure when I’m landing behind a departing large aircraft

Land before their rotation point

Wake turbulence procedure if I’m landing behind a landing large aircraft

Steeper approach path and land after their touch down point!

Go around procedure

• Power Full

• Attitude Nose on the horizon

• Flaps to 20˚ Immediately

• Positive rate of climb

• Flaps to 10˚

• Radio call → “Tower, CCC, Going around“

Light gun signals

• Steady Green → Cleared to land

• Steady Red → Give way to other aircraft and continue circling

• Flashing Green → Return for landing, awaiting steady green

• Flashing Red → Airport unsafe, do not land.

slip entry and recovery procedure

entry

• aileron into the wind

• opposite rudder

recovery

• rudder neutral

• aileron neutral