Delta Interview

[CesnaCaptn]

You are on the 270 radial. Hold east on the 090 radial 20 DME fix, 20 mile legs. Wind is 360 @ 20kts. What radial will the bearing pointer be pointing to before you turn inbound?

Am I the only one that was confused about where you are with this question? Are you east of the VOR or west of the VOR? The question states that you are on the 270 radial. How can you be holding east on the 090 radial 20 DME fix?

 

[CesnaCaptn]

Actually 50 * 60 = 3000.

Thanks for pointing that out. I sure have a lot of catching up to do.

 

[Truckdriver]

Am I the only one that was confused about where you are with this question? Are you east of the VOR or west of the VOR? The question states that you are on the 270 radial. How can you be holding east on the 090 radial 20 DME fix?

You could be on the 270 radial and then cross the station to the 090 radial and hold east. It would be a parallel entry. My thinking is what fin said. You really don't know the correction because there is no speed. You would be holding a left correction to track the radial so the pointer would be pointing slightly behind and to the left. Anyone know what the answer choices were for this one?

 

[Dr Pepper]

Just remember that some of the questions on the knowledge test are there to waste your time. Write down the question number, select an answer, move on to the next question and then come back to the ones you were not sure on. I think the one about traveling 10 degrees is only there to waste your time. The test was 42 questions for 42 minutes. The behavior test is 50 minutes and plenty of time. The cog has not time limit overall, but sections do time out.

 

[Truckdriver]

(1) .84 Mach works out to be about 11 KTAS - seems like the best answer

5% of .84 is greater than 10kts. So according to the AIM, wouldn't you tell ATC when your speed differs by 5% in this case? In the real world, we just tell them when indicated drops by 10kts even if we are using mach, but for testing purposes I'm not sure what I would say. It's either .84 or .82.

 

[Truckdriver]

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[slinky]

OOPs you are right. Sorry about the typo...

50*60/300 =10
so it would be 080

slinky

 

[ACL65PILOT]

Like one other person posted. Big Picture guys. Take a WAG and come back to it if you have time.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Don't worry about the cog. test. It was actually the easiest part of the day. The one that has you list the numbers backward were all single digit numbers. The test that has you rember the key (@=2, ^=7) is repeated a couple times later in the test so rember it. If you play vidio games this test is pretty easy. You have to do different things with both hands at the same time.

The aviation test was 40 questions in 40 min. Most of the questions were from the gouge. Some were the same type of question but with some changes. You just need to read the question and think about it.

If I can answer an specific questions I will try and remember. But if I help you, you had better get hired. That way in some small way I could live vicariously through you.

I knew all these years of surfing the internet for porn would finally pay off. :blush:

 

[Truckdriver]

So does mach increase or decrease with altitude? I thought that it decreased because if you are going mach 1 at 1000 feet you are going much faster than if you are going mach 1 at 36,000 feet. Why are the fellas on the gouge saying mach increases with altitude? TAS is greater with altitude and the speed of sound is lower so are they saying that mach NUMBER increases with altitude even though actual mach decreases?