RAA Pre Cert Legislation 1 Pilot Practice Exam

Give way to your right. But in all situations avoid accidents and be considerate.

True – but clearly needs to turn right well prior to the location that would cause the aircraft to be closer. This diagram is not to scale.

Both aircraft should take evasive action to the right. Often one pilot won’t even see the other due to distractions, monitoring gauges or navigation etc. It is important both pilots take immediate evasive action as you only have seconds.

The slower aircraft maintains heading. The faster aircraft passes on the right. Stay well clear and let them know you are doing so.

Aircraft A is heading 000 which is North. Aircraft B must be on its right if its heading for the same collision point and heading 315. Give way to your right.

It seems strange to turn to the right when an aircraft is on your right, however the correct technique is to speed up or slow down and maintain separation. It is generally easier and safer to slow down then turn right behind them,  since we are often cruising at higher power settings, it is hard to speed up by much. It is also difficult to see behind so speeding up puts you in a position where you cannot see the aircraft you need to give way to.

A landing aircraft does have right of way over any aircraft taxiing or flying in the vicinity. The exception to this is aircraft already on the runway own the runway. If you are landing too close behind another aircraft and they take too long to vacate then you must go around.

An aircraft that enters a runway and forces another aircraft to go around is guilty of a reportable runway incursion.

You must give way to declared emergencies, gliders and air ambulance.

This is a difficult question to answer. The responsibility is to give way, however once a collision is likely all pilots have a legal and common sense obligation to take evasive action.

All pilots share this responsibility all of the time.

The cardinal heading 270 is to the west. Runway numbers are always the way you are heading when you land or take off on that number.

Eg:

Runway 36 is North

Runway 09 is East

Runway 18 is South

Runway 27 is West

Back-tracking 21 means you are going to takeoff on runway 21. To take off on 21 you would be heading 180° to 21 while back-tracking. This would mean you are heading 030 while backtracking. On the radio you say backtracking runway 21 and don’t mention 03. This question is to check you understand opposite runway numbers.

Standard circuits are left.

Non standard circuits are right or other approaches.

All circuits are left unless advised by ERSA, NOTAM or Circuit indicators

For aircraft between 55kt and 150kt a standard circuit is 1000 ft

For aircraft below 55kt a standard circuit is 500 ft

For aircraft above 150kt a standard circuit is 1500 ft

Some questions in your actual exams are poorly worded and you have to choose the most correct response. Don’t get hung up on the poor wording of a question. Choose the most correct response even if it is ambiguous.

The correct circuit legs are crosswind, downwind, base, final, but there is also upwind if you are doing touch and goes or taking off.

They must have one signal display and for your exam you must know the common markers placed in it for gliders, aerodrome closed, and hard surfaces only.