Speaking of Towered Airport Operations...

[EyesSkyward]

The Air Safety Foundation's current quiz is on that very topic:

Operations at Towered Airports (http://www.aopa.org/asf/asfquiz/quizzes.cfm?SA=Quizzes&QuizId=101)

I just took it, and actually missed one (#4). :blush: But hey, I normally fly out of a non-towered field, so I'll cut myself some slack.

I'd be interested to see how the non-pilots here do. A good "educated guesser" should probably get a lot of them right.

- Jeff

[EyesSkyward]

And here's another apropos one about how to behave on the tarmac:

Runway Safety (http://www.aopa.org/asf/asfquiz/quizzes.cfm?SA=Quizzes&QuizId=83)

- Jeff

[Barb-SAN]

The Air Safety Foundation's current quiz is on that very topic:

Operations at Towered Airports (http://www.aopa.org/asf/asfquiz/quizzes.cfm?SA=Quizzes&QuizId=101)

I just took it, and actually missed one (#4). :blush: But hey, I normally fly out of a non-towered field, so I'll cut myself some slack.

I'd be interested to see how the non-pilots here do. A good "educated guesser" should probably get a lot of them right.

- Jeff

Um...#4 is the one I missed too. It seems to me that my instructor has emphasized the importance of going straight out when we depart the runway, and being careful not to drift into the adjacent runway's airspace. I'll have to ask him next time about that....at MYF we do have a tower operative during the day....closed at night, don't remember exactly when they close, but they were closed when we got back from the night cross-country at 11-ish. Usually we're through flying by early evening.

2nd quiz, got all but #3 (answered b rather than c).

It's good to keep taking these refresher quizes, especially for those of us who don't get out flying enough.

[noflyingfan]

6 and 7 out of 10, respectively.

That's really the best I've done on any of these quizzes. I guess this means I am semi-qualified to take off and land, but not to fly.

[spleisher]

...#4 is the one I missed too. It seems to me that my instructor has emphasized the importance of going straight out when we depart the runway, and being careful not to drift into the adjacent runway's airspace. I'll have to ask him next time about that....at MYF we do have a tower operative during the day....closed at night, don't remember exactly when they close, but they were closed when we got back from the night cross-country at 11-ish. Usually we're through flying by early evening.


That one confuses me too, especially in the case of an airport with a parallel runway.

And, is the amount of drift really that predictable? One would thing that different aircraft of different power levels and at different speeds would be affected differently by any crosswind component. As I'm putting along in the archer, I'm much more likely to drift over than Ray in his 737....

hmmm...

But then again, it does say "fly runway HEADING", so if you take it at face value.....

[EyesSkyward]

As I'm putting along in the archer, I'm much more likely to drift over than Ray in his 737...

I don't think so. The air is moving at more or less the same speed for everyone, so the amount of sideways drift will be affect everyone equally.

Now, the 737 will be going faster in that moving air, so it will cross a longer distance for every sideways foot than you will. That makes the track angle "straighter" than you.

In other words, the amout of drift per forward foot will be different, but the amount of drift per unit of time will nonetheless be the same. I guess their reasoning is that the latter is more important when it comes to dealing with traffic in the immediate vicinity of the airport.

- Jeff

[spleisher]

I guess, but in that unit of time, they would be further from the end of the runway, and thereby causing less impact on any other traffic in the immediate vicinity.

I know... we're splitting hairs...

Just fly the MoFo straight if they ask you to, right?