What are the two distinctive types of unmanned aircraft systems? - correct answer ✔✔Autonomous and
remote control
What can limit a datalink's strength/range? - correct answer ✔✔Environmental factors, power, antenna
type, and range
What are the three technology issues facing UAS' full integration into the airspace? - correct answer
✔✔Reliability, development of Detect and Avoid technology, control link security
What three types of aerial platforms are best suited for remote sensing? - correct answer ✔✔Satellites,
aircraft, and unmanned aircraft
What four parameters are required to calculate density altitude? - correct answer ✔✔Barometric
pressure, air temperature, dew point, and field elevation
What was the first operational targeting drone? - correct answer ✔✔De Havilland Queen Bee
What is refraction? - correct answer ✔✔Bending of waves as they pass from one medium to another,
due to a change in their speed
What is one of the most important factors affecting overall aircraft performance? - correct answer
✔✔Air density
What is the primary functional use of a RADAR or LiDAR sensor? - correct answer ✔✔Measuring
distances
Payloads, such as cargo or agricultural spray, are classified as what type of payload? - correct answer
✔✔Dispensable
, What type of remote sensing payload would be most useful in the detection of missing persons? -
correct answer ✔✔Infrared
What fixed-wing aircraft control surface can induce a moment around the lateral axis? - correct answer
✔✔Elevator
Name the two primary types of antennas. - correct answer ✔✔Omni and directional
What is the purpose of a datalink? - correct answer ✔✔Establish reliable communications between the
AV and GCS
What are the three degrees of motion that illustrate rotation around axes? - correct answer ✔✔Pitch,
roll, and yaw
How is silicon, a natural insulator, turned into a semiconductor in CCDs and CMOS sensors? - correct
answer ✔✔Dope with traces of other elements
Which of the follow is considered contingency planning? - correct answer ✔✔Lost communications flight
plan
The forward GCS is usually a large building with many floors in configuration. It has an antenna that
allows a remote pilot to take a control and handoff of an AV that was launched and will be recovered
elsewhere. T or F - correct answer ✔✔False
Which of the following changes can a remote pilot expect if the UA is overweight? - correct answer
✔✔Decrease in maneuverability
What is scattering? - correct answer ✔✔Beam of radio waves hitting a mass of smaller materials, which
individually reflect and spread the radio waves in different directions
What is reflection? - correct answer ✔✔Result of radio waves bouncing off the surface of an object and
changing direction
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