Kenny Keller walks through 10 quiz questions from the Private Pilot Study Guide, with answers tied to actual FAA regulations like 91.157 for Special VFR. Airspace violations are the number one reason pilots lose their licenses, and knowing the rules cold is how you avoid that.
Questions this video answers
1000 ft ceiling and 3 statute miles visibility.
Special VFR (see 14 CFR §91.157).
No.
18,000 ft MSL.
It is not specifically charted on sectional charts.
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Do you know that busting airspace is one of the main reasons you will end up with action against your license or possibly losing your license? There's a lot to airspace. We're going to test you on 10 questions from 74 questions inside the Private Pilot Study Guide. Write this stuff down. Most of them are short answers, but get up, piece of paper right now, quick, hurry up. Oh, wait. And write this stuff down because these questions are going to come at you and the examiner is most likely going to pull out a chart or have you pull it up on your iPad and he's going to point at different things on that chart and start asking you questions. So here we go. And I've seen this easy stuff get messed up on a Trek ride, I promise you. And I've seen it on, add on checkrides, commercials, even a CFI where somebody forgets the easy stuff. Number one, you got to know, what are basic VFR weather minimums? I want the ceiling and I want the visibility. This question is going to be asked. I'm 100% sure. We're going to go through the questions and then we'll go back through and give them, give you the answers. But I want you to write it down. Do you know it? What regulation allows you to fly when the ceiling is less than 1000ft and the visibility is less than 3 miles? Write that down. Next question. Does a helicopter pilot need to be instrument rated to request a special bfr? Yes or no. Down below. Not down below on your sheet of paper. Does the helicopter pilot need to be instrument rated to request a special bfr? This is a good one. The next one. Even though we're helicopter pilots and we fly low level, very possible that they'll ask you this. Where does class A airspace begin? We're looking for the term msl. Where does class A airspace begin? How is class A charted? Where do you see that on your sectional chart or your iPad? And foreflight, where do you see on the chart that it is marked as class A? What classes of airspace are controlled? There's five of them. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. What classes are controlled airspace? Jot those down. Next question. What class is uncontrolled? Jot that down. So you have, what are they? What classes are considered controlled and what class is uncontrolled? If you're acing this, you're in good shape. Let's keep going. If you're not, you're not ready for private pilot checkride that I can tell you. Next question. When in controlled airspace, operating VFR is The controller required to give you traffic advisories? Write it down. When in controlled airspace operating vfr, Is the controller required to give you traffic advisories? Are controllers required to provide VFR pilots with safety alerts? Jot your answer down. Our controllers required to provide VFR pilots with safety alerts and the last of our 10 questions to get you started thinking about airspace and how you might have to answer the examiner when he is sitting across from you or she what airspace is indicated by a solid blue line around an airport? What airspace is that? What airspace is indicated by the solid blue circular line? Fair game for them to ask you any of those lines around airports. Which one is it? All right, let's roll through the answers. See how you did answers with the questions. This is basic, basic airspace stuff. What are the basic VFR weather minimums? 1,000 foot ceiling and 3 miles visibility. That's statute miles. What regulation allows you to fly when the ceiling is less than 1000ft and the visibility is less than 3 miles? That is special VFR weather minimums. Does the helicopter pilot need to be instrument rated to request a special vfr? The the answer is no. And you can look that up under 91.157 if you'd like. Where does Class A airspace begin? 18,000ft MSL is where it begins. How is Class A charted? It's not specifically charted. You don't see it on a chart. You know where it is. It's not on the chart. What classes of airspace are controlled? Is class A, B, C, D and E? What is uncontrolled Class G? Is the controller required to give you traffic advisories? Only if the controller's work situation permits. Are controllers required to provide VFR pilots with safety alerts? Yes, it is mandatory and provided to all pilots. What airspace is indicated by the solid blue circular rings? Class B Bravo. Big busy blue. Alright, Hope you batted 100%. If you did, you're in good shape. Keep reviewing. Which brings up chapter five in Top ten Checkride Tips. We've been trying to hit a chapter of this every day. Again. This is the Amazon bestseller that Taz Chrisman and I put together. Flight Instructor of the year, Dan. Taz Chrisman, that is. We worked on this together in our chapter five, Cement your knowledge through repetition. This is why I asked you to write these things down at the beginning of the video. We know that we learn from repetition and airspace is one that you have to use. This repetition idea right? There is a ton of stuff to airspace. There's a lot to know. There's 72 questions in the Private Pilot Study Guide that Brian has specifically put in there to make you think of how you're going to answer that at checkride Day. It's not just about memorizing the answer. It's understanding it and be able to have a good conversation with the examiner. Because number one reason that people get their license violated, Repetition. Go through it over, over and over again. You can get this down below along with a study guide. So even though it's called Top 10 Checkride Tips, there's 12 chapters and the last chapter is bonus material from the examiners. A flight instructor of the year, that's out of 300,000 flight instructors, helped me put this book together. And he went out, interviewed examiners and said, what are you seeing people screw up during checkrides? It's a short read, but it's a powerful short read. You can sign up below to get your copy. Physical copy of top 10 checkride tips. The next video will be on performance and Limitations from the Private Pilot Study Guide down below. You can get the first chapter as a free PDF. You can also from that same link, get your own physical copy. Very nice book. Well made. 183 pages, 450 questions or 460 questions in this. Dude, it's a nice spiral bound. You can lay it out, you can draw in it, write in it, write your answers in. That's the beauty of it. It's your book to sit and physically work with. We like it. So. So we'll see you next in performance and Limitations. Peace out, Sam.
