Aircraft Maintenance MCQs

Aircraft Maintenance MCQs

The following Aircraft Maintenance MCQs have been compiled by our experts through research, in order to test your knowledge of the subject of Aircraft Maintenance. We encourage you to answer these multiple-choice questions to assess your proficiency.
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1: What does radar altitude mean?

A.   The ability of the radar to detect targets

B.   Distance of the aircraft above the ground

C.   Number of aircraft in formation

D.   The height of the aircraft above ground

E.   Height of the aircraft above ground

2: What is the distance of the aircraft above ground that is the same as radar altitude?

A.   Above Ground Level

B.   30000 feet

C.   10,000 feet

D.   1,000 feet

3: What altitude is considered ASL?

A.   6000 feet

B.   Sea Level

C.   3000 feet

D.   10,000 Feet

E.   25,000 Feet

4: What is the abbreviation for Above Sea Level?

A.   ISP

B.   MLS

C.   AGL

D.   ASL

A.   Climate

B.   Environmental

C.   Atmospheric

D.   Meteorological

6: Which basic guidance mode provides vertical guidance to a selected barometric altitude?

A.   True altitude

B.   VOR

C.   GPS

D.   Barometric Altitude Select

E.   Magnetic heading Select

7: What is the primary function of the BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE SELECT mode?

A.   Horizontal guidance

B.   Vertical guidance

C.   Automatic pitot heating

D.   Altitude selection

E.   Altitude hold

8: What is the height above mean sea level of a barometric pressure measurement?

A.   Kilometers above

B.   Feet above

C.   Meters above

D.   Inches above

9: What is the term for the amount of air that is in a given space?

A.   Pressure

B.   Air

C.   Volume

D.   Temperature

10: What is the unit used to measure barometric pressure?

A.   In HG,mbar

B.   Pa

C.   PSI

D.   KG

11: BPF stands for what?

A.   Bandpass Filter

B.   Band-Pass Filter

C.   Biquad Filter

D.   Breakpoint Filter

E.   Base Point Filter

12: CAS is used to indicate what?

A.   British Thermal Units

B.   Azimuth

C.   Altitude

D.   Airspeed

13: What could be a capture criterion?

A.   Volume

B.   Angular

C.   Radial

D.   Central

E.   Diameter

14: What is the term for attaining an objective?

A.   Capture

B.   Obtain

C.   Reach

D.   Achieve

15: What are the limits of a CCLIM?

A.   30deg

B.   180deg

C.   90deg

D.   45deg

E.   60deg

16: What is the name of the guidance control law parameter that limits the intercept angle of the flight path with a desired course?

A.   Desired Course

B.   Altitude Hold

C.   Intercept Angle

D.   Angle of Attack

E.   Cut Limit

17: What is the symbol for an underdamped second-order filter?

A.   The number -3

B.   Delta

C.   The letter s

D.   Omega

E.   The letter S

18: What does DSO stand for?

A.   Data Store Options

B.   Data Storage Option

C.   Disk Space Object

D.   Desktop Services Object

E.   Data Source Object

19: DSO is the common interface for each variation of what?

A.   A technology

B.   A type of music

C.   A particular device

D.   Different companies

E.   A type of software

20: On a digital map, data for what are provided by?

A.   Google

B.   Network Solutions

C.   Defense Mapping Agency

D.   USDA

E.   National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

21: What is another name for DME?

A.   Medical Supplies

B.   Distance Measuring Equipment

C.   Diagnostic Monitoring Equipment

D.   Diagnostic Medical Equipment

E.   Central Processing Unit

22: What is the symbol for the earth's radius?

A.   S

B.   Rho

C.   Pi

D.   Phi

E.   Omega

23: What is the term for an angle in the vertical plane?

A.   Azimuth

B.   Elevation

C.   Declination

24: What are body coordinates?

A.   Airspeed

B.   Movement coordinates

C.   Stability coordinates

D.   Course

E.   Orientation coordinates

25: What is the earth's longitude referred to as?

A.   Time

B.   Latitude

C.   Distance

D.   Date

26: What is often implemented in software as a difference equation of period T?

A.   Second-order filter

B.   Third-order filter

C.   Finite impulse response

D.   First-order filter

27: What is a FCS?

A.   The onboard computer that controls the aircraft's flightpath

B.   A military acronym for

C.   A fiber-optic cable

D.   A fuel control system

E.   A primary flight control system or an automatic flight control system

28: What are the three cues used by a system to generate stick position cues?

A.   Air temperature, altitude, and barometric pressure

B.   Accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass

C.   Pitch, roll, and throttle

D.   Pitch, yaw, and throttle

E.   Pitch, roll, and yaw

29: What is the angle in the vertical plane of an airspeed vector and a groundspeed vector?

A.   Air-mass flight path angle

B.   Vertical plane of the aircraft attitude

C.   Ground speed vector angle

D.   Ground-plane flight path angle

E.   Angle of attack

30: What type of document gives information about an airplane's position?

A.   Position update

B.   Flight plan

C.   Route chart

D.   Navigation chart

31: What is a flux valve used to measure?

A.   Temperature

B.   Pressure

C.   Flow rate

D.   Magnetic flux

32: What is another term for earth radius?

A.   Diameter

B.   Planet

C.   Globe

D.   Circumference

E.   Best sphere

33: What is the name of the earth radius for the best fitting sphere at a given position?

A.   Cubic Gaussian radius of curvature

B.   Kepler's Third Law

C.   Gaussian radius of curvature

D.   Pentagonal radius of curvature

E.   Cubic radius of curvature

34: What are the devices mounted to the platform to maintain a fixed attitude?

A.   Antennas

B.   A system of internal gyroscopes

C.   Thruster

D.   Servomotors

E.   A set of attitude control jets

35: What is the force that causes gravitational acceleration?

A.   The force of gravity

B.   The force of Earth's gravity

C.   The force of air resistance

D.   The energy of the gravitational wave

E.   The speed of light

36: What is acceleration caused by the force of gravity?

A.   The force of the object's inertia

B.   The mass of the object

C.   Gravitational acceleration

D.   The force of the sun's gravity

E.   The force of Earth's gravity

37: What is the symbol for direction?

A.   Omega

B.   Alpha

C.   Theta

D.   Psi

38: What is the term for true north?

A.   Magnetic north

B.   North magnetic pole

C.   True north

D.   Magnetic north and true north

39: What type of filter allows frequencies above a cutoff frequency to pass?

A.   High-pass filter

B.   Bandpass filter

C.   Low-pass filter

40: What is provided by the Hover hold mode?

A.   Vertical guidance only

B.   Proximity sensor detection

C.   Automatic takeoff and landing

D.   Lateral guidance and longitudinal guidance

E.   Lateral and longitudinal guidance

41: What does the SYM stand for?

A.   Single you out

B.   Yield sign

C.   Hover hold

D.   Speed limit

E.   Shyness

42: What is the name of the course that is operated in the opposite direction of an airport's runway?

A.   ILS Out Course

B.   VOR/DME Back Course

C.   ILS Back Course

D.   ILS In Course

43: What type of navigation system provides lateral, longitudinal, and vertical guidance?

A.   ILS

B.   NAVSTAR

C.   GNS

D.   VOR

44: What are two components of an INS?

A.   Computers and software

B.   Gyroscopes and accelerometers

C.   Instruments and software

D.   Radio transmitters and receivers

E.   Radio antennas

45: What is the name of the self contained navigation that is found in an inertial navigation unit?

A.   Inertial Navigation System

B.   GLONASS

C.   Global Positioning System

D.   GPS

E.   Gyroscope

46: What is an inertial navigation system?

A.   A system which uses satellites to provide navigation information

B.   A self-contained Inertial Navigation System

C.   A system that determines the location by using ground-based radars

D.   A system that uses satellites to determine the position

47: The rate of change of acceleration is called?

A.   Linear

B.   Jerk

C.   Pulse

D.   Constant

48: Which type of filter combines multiple sources better than a single source?

A.   Nearest neighbor filter

B.   Kalman filter

C.   IIR filter

D.   Lowpass filter

E.   FIR filter

49: What is the name of the mathematical relationship used to model a continuous function in the complex frequency domain?

A.   Harmonic analysis

B.   Laplace transforms

C.   Continuous time Fourier transform

D.   Fourier transforms

E.   Fourier series

50: What type of function can be modeled with a Laplace transform?

A.   Continuous

B.   Continuous and Discrete

C.   Piecewise continuous

D.   Discrete