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What is one purpose of wing flaps?
✓ To enable the pilot to make steeper approaches to a landing without
increasing the airspeed.
One of the main functions of flaps during approach and landing is to:
✓ Increase the angle of descent without increasing the airspeed.
What is the purpose of the rudder on an airplane?
✓ To control yaw.
Which is not a primary flight control surface?
A. Flaps
B. Stabilator
C Ailerons
✓ A. Flaps
The elevator controls movement around which axis?
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✓ Lateral.
Which statement is true concerning primary flight controls?
A. The effectiveness of each control surface increases with speed because
there is more flow over them
B. Only when all three primary flight controls move in sequence do the airflow
and pressure distribution change over and around the airfoil.
C. Primary flight controls include ailerons, rudder, elevator, and trim systems
✓ A. The effectiveness of each control surface increases with speed
because there is more flow over them.
Which of the following is true concerning flaps?
A. Flaps are attached to the leading edge of the wing and are used to
increase wing lift.
B. Flaps allow an increase in the angle of descent without increasing
airspeed.
C. Flaps are high drag devices deployed from the wings to reduce lift.
✓ B. Flaps allow and increase in the angle of descent without increasing
airspeed.
Which device is a secondary flight control?
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A. Spoilers
B. Ailerons
C. Stabilators
✓ A. Spoilers
Trim systems are designed to do what?
✓ They relieve the pilot of the need to maintain constant back pressure
on the flight controls.
The four forces acting on an airplane in flight are:
✓ Lift, Weight, Thrust, & Drag
When are the four forces that act on an airplane in equilibrium?
✓ During unaccelerated flight.
What is the relationship of lift, drag, thrust, and weight when the airplane is in
straight-and-level flight?
✓ Lift equals weight.
✓ Thrust equals drag.
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Which statement relates to Bernoulli's principle?
✓ Air traveling faster over the curve upper surface of an airfoil causes
lower pressure on the top surface.
The term "angle of attack" is defined as the angle...
✓ between the wing chord line and the relative wind.
Angle of attack is defined as the chord line of an airfoil and the...
✓ Direction of the relative wind.
The angle of attack at which an airplane wing stalls will...
✓ Remain the same regardless of gross weight.
As altitude increases, the indicated airspeed at which a given airplane stalls
in a particular configuration will...
✓ Remain the same regardless of altitude.
In what flight condition must an aircraft be placed in order to spin?
✓ Stalled.
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