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Question 1

What does the acronym IMSAFE help a pilot evaluate before flight?

Accepted Answer

Personal fitness via Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, and Emotion/Eating

Answer

IMSAFE is a personal fitness checklist covering Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, and Emotion/Eating to help pilots honestly assess their readiness to fly.

Question 2

How many hours before acting as pilot in command must a pilot refrain from consuming alcohol per FAR 91.17?

Accepted Answer

8 hours

Answer

FAR 91.17 prohibits flying within 8 hours of consuming any alcohol — commonly remembered as the '8 hours bottle to throttle' rule.

Question 3

What is spatial disorientation in aviation?

Accepted Answer

A false sense of aircraft attitude caused by conflicting sensory inputs, most dangerous in IMC

Answer

Spatial disorientation occurs when the vestibular and visual systems provide conflicting information about aircraft attitude, causing the pilot to feel a false sense of motion or bank.

Question 4

What makes hypoxia particularly dangerous to pilots?

Accepted Answer

It impairs judgment and performance while the pilot may feel fine and be unaware of their own impairment

Answer

Hypoxia is insidious because it degrades the pilot's ability to think clearly and make decisions while simultaneously impairing the self-awareness needed to recognize the problem.

Question 5

What are the effects of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning on a pilot?

Accepted Answer

Headache, dizziness, and impaired judgment that can be mistaken for fatigue

Answer

CO from exhaust leaks binds to hemoglobin far more readily than oxygen, causing subtle impairment including headache and confusion that pilots often attribute to fatigue.

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PPL PPL Pilot Health and Human Factors