Pick a topic to study, or take a 100-question mock exam.
Air Law
- Medical certificate validity
- Recency requirements
- ATC light-gun signals
- Right-of-way rules
- VFR weather minima
- Cruising altitudes (semicircular rule)
- Airspace classes A to G
- Documents carried on board & by the pilot
- VFR equipment, day vs night
- Flight plans & flight itineraries
- Alcohol & drugs (bottle to throttle)
- Low-level speed limits
- Portable electronic devices
- Transponder codes
- Transponder equipment requirements
- VFR radio communication failure
- MF & ATF at uncontrolled aerodromes
- Aerodrome traffic circuit
- Forest fire flight restriction
- Lasers & directed bright lights
- NOTAMs
- Supplemental oxygen requirements
- Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)
- ATC clearances vs instructions
- Land and hold short operations (LAHSO)
- Minimum flight altitude over a built-up area
Navigation
- Heading: true → compass
- Wind triangle (heading & groundspeed)
- IAS → CAS → TAS
- Time, speed & distance / ETA
- Fuel planning & reserves
- UTC ↔ local time
- Measuring chart distance
- Measuring true track on a chart
- Reading a CFS entry
- Navigation definitions
- Chart projections & scale
- Radio & navigation aids
- Chart symbols
Meteorology
- Pressure altitude
- Density altitude
- Freezing level
- Cloud base
- Altimeter error (non-standard air)
- FB upper-wind decode
- Upper winds (FB) interpolation
- Decoding a METAR
- Cloud types & what they indicate
- Frontal weather (cold, warm, occluded)
- Atmospheric stability
- Fog types & formation
- Structural icing
- Decoding a TAF
- Decoding a PIREP
- Thunderstorms
- Turbulence
- Where to get aviation weather
- Air composition
- The standard atmosphere
- Highs, lows & isobars
- Wind & how it forms
- Air masses
- Temperature inversions
- Graphic area forecast (GFA)
- SIGMET & AIRMET
- Flight categories: VFR, MVFR, IFR
- Aerodrome observations: METAR, SPECI, AUTO
Aeronautics
- Crosswind component
- Stall speed vs bank angle
- Turn radius
- Turn rate
- Weight & balance / CG
- Weight & balance limits
- Hazardous attitudes & antidotes
- V-speeds & ASI markings
- Pitot-static instruments & blockage
- Carburettor icing
- Adverse yaw
- Primary controls & axes
- Magnetic compass errors
- Gyroscopic flight instruments
- The four forces
- Parasite & induced drag
- Stalls, spins & spiral dives
- Aircraft stability
- Propeller left-turning tendencies
- Fixed-pitch vs constant-speed propellers
- Detonation & pre-ignition
- Magneto ignition & the mag check
- AVGAS grades & colours
- Electrical system
- Runway markings & approach aids
- Wake turbulence
- Surface contamination & the clean aircraft
- Hypoxia, hyperventilation & carbon monoxide
- Spatial disorientation & illusions
- Alcohol physiology
- IMSAFE fitness self-check
- Scuba diving before flight
- Trapped gas, ears & sinuses
- Take-off & landing distance
- Hydroplaning