Spatial Apperception Flashcards
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A cockpit view shows the nose well below the horizon with the wings level. Simultaneously, the airspeed is increasing. What maneuver is being performed?
Answer: Wings-level descent
A nose-below-horizon attitude with level wings and increasing airspeed indicates a straight-ahead descent.
You are shown an outside view of an aircraft flying over a city grid. The aircraft's nose is pointing between two city blocks and the left wing is higher than the right. What does the cockpit view show?
Answer: Horizon tilted with right side lower, nose near horizon
A high left wing from outside means the aircraft is banked right, causing the horizon in the cockpit to tilt with the right side lower.
An aircraft is heading east at low altitude over flat farmland. A road running north-south is directly beneath the aircraft. How does the road appear from the cockpit?
Answer: Passing directly underneath, left-to-right
Flying east over a north-south road means the road is perpendicular to the heading and passes underneath left to right.
The artificial horizon in a cockpit shows the sky bar tilted so the right end is up and the left end is down, with the miniature aircraft symbol above the horizon bar. What is true?
Answer: The aircraft is in a right bank, climbing
The right end of the horizon bar up indicates a right bank, and the miniature aircraft above the horizon bar indicates a climb.
An outside image shows an aircraft with wings level and its nose pointing about 20° above the horizon. A lake is visible to the aircraft's right. Which cockpit view is correct?
Answer: Horizon below center, level, lake on right
Nose 20° above the horizon means the horizon appears below the cockpit center; level wings mean no tilt; lake to the right stays on the right from the cockpit.
During a right-descending turn, how does the horizon appear on the cockpit's attitude indicator?
Answer: Tilted with right end lower and positioned above center
A right bank tilts the horizon with the right end lower, and a descent moves the horizon above the cockpit center.
A pilot is flying at 5,000 feet heading south over a straight highway. The highway runs east-west. How does the highway look from the cockpit?
Answer: Running left to right across the bottom of the view
Heading south, an east-west highway is perpendicular to the flight path and appears to run left to right below the aircraft.