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FCTC WRITTEN EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A
1. What is the relationship between QFE and QNH at an airport 50ft below MSL?

a. QFE = QNH
b. QFE < QNH
c. QFE > QNH
d. There is no clear relationship - ansc. QFE > QNH

2. Which cloud type may indicate the presence of severe turbulence?

a. Cirrocumulus
b. Nimbostratus
c. Altocumulus lenticularis
d. Stratocumulus - ansc. Altocumulus lenticularis

3. What causes wind?

a. Difference in pressure
b. Rotation of the earth
c. Frontal systems
d. Difference in temperature - ansa. Difference in pressure

4. In what cloud is icing and turbulence most severe?

a. Cb
b. Ns
c. Sc
d. Ci - ansa. Cb

5. Which cloud would you encounter the most intensive rain?

a. Ci
b. Ns
c. St
d. Sc - ansb. Ns

6. How do you calculate the lowest usable flight level?

a. Lowest QNH and lowest negative temperature below ISA
b. Lowest QNH and highest negative temperature below ISA
c. Highest QNH and highest temperature above ISA
d. Highest QNH and lowest temperature - ansa. Lowest QNH and lowest negative temperature below ISA

7. The most dangerous form of airframe icing is:

a. Clear ice
b. Hoar frost
c. Dry ice
d. Rime ice - ansa. Clear ice

8. Generally, as altitude increases:

a. Temperature decreases and density increases

,FCTC WRITTEN EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A
b. Temperature, pressure and density decreases
c. Temperature and pressure increase and density decreases
d. Temperature decreases and pressure and density increase - ansb. Temperature, pressure and density
decreases

9. Where is wind shear the greatest?

a. Near a strong low level inversion and in the region of a thunderstorm
b. Near a valley with wind speeds greater than 35kts
c. On the windward side of a mountain
d. When the wind is greater than 35kts - ansa. Near a strong low level inversion and in the region of a
thunderstorm

10. Where do you find the majority of the air within the atmosphere?

a. Troposphere
b. Stratosphere
c. Tropopause
d. Mesosphere - ansa. Troposphere

11. Where is the 300mb level approximately in ISA?

a. 30,000ft
b. 39,000ft
c. 18,000ft
d. 10,000ft - ansa. 30,000ft

12. What type of precipitation would you expect at an active unstable cold front?

a. Freezing rain
b. Light to moderate continuous rain
c. Drizzle
d. Showers associated with thunderstorms - ansd. Showers associated with thunderstorms

13. Where are icing conditions on route specified?

a. TAF and METAR
b. METAR and SIGMET
c. SWC (sig. weather chart) and SIGMET
d. SPECI and TREND - ansc. SWC (sig. weather chart) and SIGMET

14. You are flying at FL170. The pressure level which is closest to you is the:

a. 300mb
b. 700mb
c. 500mb
d. 850mb - ansc. 500mb

15. In which weather report would you expect to find information about icing conditions on the runway?

a. GAFOR
b. TAF

, FCTC WRITTEN EXAM 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A
c. METAR
d. SIGMET - ansc. METAR

16. TAFs are usually valid for:

a. For the period indicated in the TAF itself
b. For 18 hours
c. For 24 hours
d. For 8 hours - ansa. For the period indicated in the TAF itself

17. When a TREND is included at the end of a METAR, the trend is a forecast valid for:

a. 1 hour after the time of observation
b. 2 hours after the time of observation
c. 2 hours after it was issued
d. 1 hour after it was issued - ansb. 2 hours after the time of observation

18. VOLMETs are updated

a. Every hour
b. 4 times a day
c. 2 times a day
d. Every half hour - ansd. Every half hour

19. QFE is 1000 hPa with an airfield elevation of 200m AMSL. What is QNH? (use 8m per hPa)

a. 975 hPa
b. 1025 hPa
c. 1008 hPa
d. 992 hPa - ansb. 1025 hPa

20. What is normally the most effective measure to reduce or avoid CAT effects?

a. Change of flight level
b. Change of course
c. Increase of speed
d. Decrease of speed - ansa. Change of flight level

21. An inversion is:

a. A decrease of pressure with height
b. A decrease of temperature with height
c. An increase of temperature with height
d. An increase of pressure with height - ansc. An increase of temperature with height

22. The isobars drawn on a surface weather chart represent lines of equal pressure:

a. At flight level
b. At height of observatory
c. At a determined density altitude
d. Reduced to sea level - ansd. Reduced to sea level

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