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Skywest Exam Prep Questions And Answers (202472025)What and where is the Tropopause? - ✔✔Small layer between the troposphere and stratosphere.
Temperature and winds can vary greatly which can cause turbulent conditions. It is roughly
FL360 over the US, but can move.
Where is the jet stream during the winter? - ✔✔The jet stream moves south during the winter
closer to the equator.
IFR fuel requirements - ✔✔Enough to reach first airport of intended landing, shoot and approach
and go on to the most distant alternate airport and fly after that for 45 mins at normal cruise
Exemption 3585 - ✔✔If there is a conditional or temporary weather condition (occasional,
intermittent, briefly, tempo, possibility, or chance of) that is below minimums at the destination
or the alternate airport at the flights ETA, where the flight cannot be normally released, they can
depart under 3585 as long as a second alternate is filed and fuel requirements are met
When do you need a departure alternate? - ✔✔When the departure airport weather is lower than
the landing minimums
Stages of a thunderstorm - ✔✔Cumulus- updrafts
Mature- beginning of falling precipitation, up and downdrafts, most dangerous
Dissipating- downdrafts
What is needed for a thunderstorm to form? - ✔✔Instability, Lifting mechanism(fronts, terrain,
thermals), Moisture
What stage of a thunderstorm would you encounter the anvil? - ✔✔The mature stage. The anvil
extends in the direction of the storm
, Clear Ice - ✔✔most dangerous type. Heavy, hard and difficult to remove. Forms when water
drops freeze slowly as a smooth sheet of solid ice. Usually occurs at temperatures close to the
freezing point (-10° to 0° C) by large supercooled drops of water
Rime Ice - ✔✔Rough, milky, opaque ice formed by the instantaneous freezing of small
supercooled water droplets.
Mixed Ice - ✔✔Mixture of clear and rime ice.
Cold front weather - ✔✔Showery, with heavy precipitation that starts and ends quickly,
thunderstorms are common, followed by cool, fair weather and good visibility
Warm front weather - ✔✔Steady (or light) rain or snow that may last for a few days, followed by
bad visibility, warm good weather
How do you know what was changed last on a Jepp chart? - ✔✔Bottom left corner
When do you need a procedure turn? - ✔✔Anytime one is published on an approach unless:
Cleared for straight in
Vectored by ATC
NpPT is specified on the plate
Can you continue an approach if visibility is less than minimums? - ✔✔Before FAF, NO. After
FAF, yes. Flight visibility is controlling (what the pilot sees)
MEA - ✔✔Minimum Enroute Altitude- obstacle clearance, nav reception
MOCA - ✔✔Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude- Obstacle clearance, nav reception only
within 22NM of VOR
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