ATSC 113 Flying Midterm Exam Questions and Answers
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2024/2025
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2024/2025
ATSC 113 Flying Midterm Exam
Questions and Answers
Convective clouds characteristics - Answer--cotton balls due to buoyancy of warm humid air
rising through cooler air
-associated with strong updrafts and cold fronts
-see cat's paws (downdrafts of air hitting ground, slightly darker/rougher pa...
-if not humid enough, strong mountain winds can still have rotors (without the clouds)
clouds associated with strong winds across mountains--banner clouds - Answer✔✔--indicate
strong turbulence touching the downwind side of a tall, isolated mountain peak (form on
downwind side of mountain peak)
-looks like a flag flying off the mountainside
clouds formed by extra heat, updrafts, or turbulence--pyrocumulus (cumulus flammagenitus) -
Answer✔✔--indicate strong forest fires, possible thunderstorms in smoke (form over forest fires
and volcanoes)
clouds formed by extra heat, updrafts, or turbulence--pileus clouds - Answer✔✔--harmless, no
affect to flying (form over fast growing cumulus clouds, short lived)
clouds formed by extra heat, updrafts, or turbulence--fractus/scud clouds - Answer✔✔--indicate
high humidity and strong winds at low altitudes (form in turbulent humid air near the ground)
-stratus silvagenitus (when these clouds form over forested hillsides from forest moisture)
forms in two ways:
1) precipitation fog--warm rain falls through cooler air, evaporates and re-condenses
2) lifting condensation level--cool humid air forced upwards by updrafts
clouds formed by humans--fumulus (cumulus homogenitus) clouds - Answer✔✔--harmless, no
affect on flying (water-droplet clouds over cooling towers)
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