Oddball October ATPL exam questions.

[EGCC4284]

Hello Guy's and Girl's.

Can anyone remember any of the odd ball questions
from any of the October ATPL exams.

If you can stick a post on here about them, it may
jog the memory from others about the wordings from
such questions and raise reply's and queries from
other pruners. .

What was question 59 in Air Law about the
definition of a stopway all about?

Can anyone remember the 4 options given which
as far as I was concerned could of all been correct??
in the event of an emergency

Perf, was it 18,800 or 18,350

After looking at a graph and having an option of 2
answers that are just 450 feet apart is I think
taking the piss.

AGK

What is the advantage of having a Turbo Supercharger???

Is the such a thing, I thought they were called either
a Turbocharger or a Supercharger, but not such a
thing as a Turbo Supercharger

I think they meant Turbocharger

Answer option's

1, It uses exhaust gases that would normally be wasted
2, It reduces the torque placed on a crankshaft.

Are they both not correct as an answer.

Does anyone remember the exact wording of the
fuelling question.

All the crew on board, Steps fully out. Radio
comm's between ??

Can anyone remember any other oddball
October exam questions??

Regards Rob, the 4 am green shamrock teddy father.

[Aerofoil]

Heres one,

Mass and Balance: A question asked you to work out the Traffic load given a MTOM, Fuel and BEM.
My school is trying to get this question voided because you need either a MTOM, DOM with fuel or a MTOM, BEM, Variable mass and fuel in order to work out a traffic load.

Did anyone else spot this one? I spent ages trying to work it out and eventually realised that they hadnt given enough info in the question to work it out or at least thats what everyone i spoke to thinks.

Regards

Aerofoil

[Tinstaafl]

The term 'turbocharger' is a commonly used contraction of 'turbo supercharger' ie a supercharger that uses a turbine as its drive mechanism instead of accessory gearing. So, yes, you were correct in your assumption but no, they weren't taking the piss.

[Groundloop]

There are three types of "xxxcharged" piston engines.

Supercharger used gear drive from the engine crackcase to turn a compressor to compress the intake air.

Turbocharger uses engine exhaust to turn a turbine which drives the compressor on the intake.

And there is the "turbocompound" which uses BOTH systems to compress the intake air. DC-7s and Super Constellations used turbocompound engines (which proved to be somewhat unreliable!)

Possibly the term in the paper "Turbo Supercharger" was referring to a turbo compound.

[tu154]

Was this that M&B question?

Empty mass of a/c is A
Operational items (including crew standard mass of B) is C.
MZFM is D.
Max traffic load is?

Assuming 'operational items' is the variable load, and assuming B figure is included in C, then
MZFM - BEM+VL = Traffic Load.

[Alex Whittingham]

Possibly more like:

Q. An aircraft basic empty mass is 3000 kg. The maximum take-off, landing, and zero-fuel mass are identical, at 5200 kg. Ramp fuel is 650 kg, the taxi fuel is 50 kg.

The payload available is:

(A) 1600 kg
(B) 1550 kg
(C) 2200 kg
(D) 2150 kg

They should have given the DOM, not the BEM. They probably just got their acronyms muddled up. Confusing, though.

[tu154]

Might have been if not for the bristol feedback :E

[Aerofoil]

Thats the one alex! :ok:

Thanks

Dave