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1
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To get a compete weather briefing for the planned fight, the pilot should request

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a standard briefing

2
Q

Which type weather briefing should a pilot request, when departing within the hour, if no preliminary weather information has been received?

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Standard briefing

3
Q

Which type of weather briefing should a pilot request to supplement mass disseminated data?

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An abbreviated briefing

4
Q

A weather briefing that is provided when teh information requested is 6 or more hours in advnce of the proposed departure time is

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an outlook briefing

5
Q

What should pilots state initially when telephoning a weather briefing facility for preflight weather information

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Identify themselves a pilots

6
Q

What should pilots state initially when telephoning a weater briefing facility for preflight weather information?

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The intended route of flight and destination

7
Q

When telephoning a weather briefing facility for preflight weather information pilots should state

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the aircraft identification or the pilots name

8
Q

When tekephoning a weather briefing facility for preflight weather information, pilots should state

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whether they intend to fly VFR only

9
Q

To update a previous weather briefing, a pilot should request

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an abbreviated briefing

10
Q

When requesting weather information for the following morning, a pilot should request

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an outlook briefing

11
Q

For aviation purposes, ceiling is defined as teh height above the Earth’s surface fo the

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lowest broken or overcast layer or vertical visibility into an obscuration

12
Q

To best determine general forcast weather conditions over several states, the pilot shoudl refer to

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Aviation Area Forcasts

13
Q

To determine the freezing level and areas of probable icing aloft, the pilot should refer tothe

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Inflight Aviation Weather Advisories

14
Q

The section of the Area Forcast entitled VFR CLDS/WX contains a general description of

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clouds and weather which cover an area greater than 3,000 square miles and is significant to VFR flight operations

15
Q

From which primary source should information be obtained regarding expected weather at the estimated time of arrival if your destination has no Terminal Forcast?

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Area Forcast

16
Q

Of what value is Weather Depiction Chart to the pilot?

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For determining general weather conditions on which to base flight planning

17
Q

What does the heavy dashed line that forms a large rectangular box on a Radar Summary Chart refer to?

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Severe weather watch area

18
Q

What information is provided by the Radar Summary Chart that is not shown on other weather charts?

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Lines and cells of hazerdous thunderstorms

19
Q

Radar weather reports are of special interet to pilots because they include

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location of precipitation along with tupe intensity and cell movement of precipitation

20
Q

How should contact be established with an En Route Fligth Advisor Service (EFAS) statin, and what service would be expected?

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Call FLight Watch on 122.0 for information reagrding actual weather and thunderstorm activity along proposed route

21
Q

What service shoudl a pilot normally expect from an En Route Flight Advisory Servide (EFAS) station?

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Actual weather information and thunderstorm activity along the route

22
Q

Below Fl 180, en route weaterh advisories should be obtained from an FSS on

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122.0 MHz

23
Q

When the term “lighy and variable” is used in referecne to Winds Aloft Forecast, teh coded group and windspeed is

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9900 and less than 5 knots

24
Q

What values are used for Winds Aloft Forecasts?

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True direction and knots

25
Q

How are Significant Weather Prognostic Charts best used by a pilot?

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For determining areas to avoid (freezing levels and turbulence)

26
Q

SIGMETs are issued as a waring of weather conditins hazardous to which aircraft?

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All aircraft

27
Q

AIRMETs are advisories of sinificant weather phenomena but of lower intensities than SIGMETs and are intended for dissemination to

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all pilots

28
Q

Which in flight advisory would contain information on sever icing not associated with thunderstorms

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SIGMET

29
Q

What information is contained in a CONVECTIVE SIGMET?

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Tornadoes, embedded thunderstorms, and hail 3/4 inch or greater in diameter

30
Q

What is indicated when a current CONVECTIVE SIGMET forcasts thunderstorms?

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Thunderstorms obsucred by massive cloud layers