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ASTB PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSThe term abeam refers to? - Answers -90 degrees or 270 degrees relative to one's own
ship.
The wings are ______
These are a part of an aircrafts surface that help control what 5 things? - Answers --air
foils
-Lift, direction, stability, thrust, propulsion
A port quartering sea would describe _______? - Answers -Seas that are arriving at an
angle on the left side of the stern.
What is ground effect? - Answers -When air downwash from the aircraft comes in
contact with the ground and is reflected back up to add lift to the aircraft.
"Come left/right to course" - Answers -Make a slight change in course or heading,
usually less then 15 degrees.
-An aircraft engine cawling provides what advantes? - Answers --It allows for cooling air
to reach the power plant
-It protects the engine from external objects
-It provides an aerodynamic union between the engine and the aircraft fuselage or wing
A _______ would be an example of a deck fitting - Answers -Cleat (a strip of wood,
metal, etc. fastened across a surface to provide support and/or footing)
centripetal most nearly means...... - Answers -toward a center or axis
cumulus cloud is...... - Answers -Puffy white cloud that forms from rising columns of air
-In aeronautics, the term chord refers to? - Answers -The straight line distance between
the leading edge and the trailing edge of a wing. It helps determine the lift
characteristics of an airfoil or a wing
cirriform clouds - Answers -From Latin cirrus, "a lock of hair" they are thin and wispy
and composed of ice crystals rather than water droplets
stratiform clouds - Answers -From Latin stratus, "spread out" they appear as grayish
sheets that cover most or all of the sky rarely being broken up into individual cloud units
cumuliform (cumulus) clouds - Answers -massive and rounded usually with a flat base
and limited horizontal extent but often billowing upward to great heights
, On an aircraft carrier brown jerseys are ________ - Answers -Air wing plane captains,
air wing line leading petty officers
On an aircraft carrier, yellow jerseys are ________ - Answers -Aircraft handling officers,
catapult and arresting gear officers, plane directors
Describe 3 things about a precision instrument runway - Answers --medium and large
size airports
-usually consist of a blast pad/stopway, threshold, designator, centerline, aiming point,
and touchdown markers
-provides pilots with both horizontal and vertical guidence for instrument approaches
On an aircraft carrier, green jersey's are ______ - Answers --catapult and arresting gear
crews
-airwing maintenance personell
-cargo handling personell
-ground support equipment troubleshooters
-hook runners
-photographer's mates
-helicopter landing signal enlisted personell
Describe 3 things about nonprecision instrument runways. - Answers --small to medium
sized airports
-may be marked with threshold markings, designators, centerlines, and sometimes a
1,000-1,500 ft mark known as the "aiming point"
- they provide horizontal position guidance to planes on instrument approach
Describe 4 things about visible runways - Answers --usually have no markings but may
have threshold markings, designators, and centerlines
-they don't provide instrument based landing procedure. pilot must be able to see it to
use it.
-radio communication may be available, pilots must be self-relient
-small air strips
On a aircraft carrier white jerseys are ________ - Answers -air wing quality control
personell, squadron plane inspectors, landing signal officer, air transfer officers, liquid
oxygen crews, safety observers, medical personell
Bravo Zulu most traditionally means ____ in the Navy. - Answers -Well done
-Where would you find a boundery layer control device?
-What is boundery layer control? - Answers --The wing
-It's a system used on an aircraft wing to aid in the creation and maintenance of lift and
the reduction of parasitic drag
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