{ "50_part2": [ { "num": 89, "text": "Clouds are basically distinguished by what types?", "options": { "A": "Thunderstorm and shower clouds", "B": "Cumulus and stratiform clouds", "C": "Stratiform and ice clouds", "D": "Layered and lifted clouds" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 90, "text": "What weather phenomenon designated by \"2\" has to be expected on the lee side during \"Foehn\" conditions? See figure (MET-001). Siehe Anlage 1", "options": { "A": "Cumulonimbus", "B": "Cumulonimbus", "C": "Altocumulus lenticularis", "D": "Altocumulus Castellanus" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 91, "text": "Which type of ice forms by very small water droplets and ice crystals hitting the front surfaces of an aircraft?", "options": { "A": "Rime ice", "B": "Clear ice", "C": "Mixed ice", "D": "Hoar frost" }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 92, "text": "Information about pressure patterns and frontal situation can be found in which chart?", "options": { "A": "Significant Weather Chart (SWC)", "B": "Wind chart.", "C": "Hypsometric chart", "D": "Surface weather chart." }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 97, "text": "What cloud sequence can typically be observed during the passage of a warm front?", "options": { "A": "Wind becoming calm, dissipation of clouds and warming during summer; formation of extended high fog layers during winter", "B": "Squall line with showers of rain and thunderstorms (Cb), gusting wind followed by cumulus clouds with isolated showers of rain", "C": "Cirrus, thickening altostratus and altocumulus clouds, lowering cloud base with rain, nimbostratus", "D": "In coastal areas during daytime wind from the coast and forming of cumulus clouds, dissipation of clouds during evening and night" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 98, "text": "What phenomenon is caused by cold air downdrafts with precipitation from a fully developed thunderstorm cloud?", "options": { "A": "Electrical discharge", "B": "Anvil-head top of Cb cloud", "C": "Gust front", "D": "Freezing Rain" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 99, "text": "What information is NOT found on Low-Level Significant Weather Charts (LLSWC)?", "options": { "A": "Information about icing conditions", "B": "Front lines and frontal displacements", "C": "Radar echos of precipitation", "D": "Information about turbulence areas" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 101, "text": "Which type of cloud is associated with prolonged rain?", "options": { "A": "Altocumulus", "B": "Cumulonimbus", "C": "Nimbostratus", "D": "Cirrostratus" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 102, "text": "Regarding the type of cloud, precipitation is classified as...", "options": { "A": "Showers of snow and rain.", "B": "Prolonged rain and continuous rain.", "C": "Rain and showers of rain.", "D": "Light and heavy precipitation." }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 103, "text": "What conditions are favourable for the formation of thunderstorms?", "options": { "A": "Calm winds and cold air, overcast cloud cover with St or As.", "B": "Warm and dry air, strong inversion layer", "C": "Warm humid air, conditionally unstable environmental lapse rate", "D": "Clear night over land, cold air and patches of fog" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 104, "text": "What can be expected for the prevailling wind with isobars on a surface weather chart showing large distances?", "options": { "A": "Low pressure gradients resulting in low prevailling wind", "B": "Strong pressure gradients resulting in low prevailling wind", "C": "Strong pressure gradients resulting in strong prevailling wind", "D": "Low pressure gradients resulting in strong prevailling wind" }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 106, "text": "How is an air mass described when moving to Central Europe via the Russian continent during winter?", "options": { "A": "Maritime tropical air", "B": "Continental polar air", "C": "Maritime polar air", "D": "Continental tropical air" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 107, "text": "What clouds and weather can typically be observed during the passage of a cold front?", "options": { "A": "Wind becoming calm, dissipation of clouds and warming during summer; formation of extended high fog layers during winter", "B": "Cirrus, thickening altostratus and altocumulus clouds, lowering cloud base with rain, nimbostratus", "C": "In coastal areas during daytime wind from the coast and forming of cumulus clouds, dissipation of clouds during evening and night", "D": "Strongly developed cumulus clouds (Cb) with showers of rain and thunderstorms, gusting wind followed by cumulus clouds with isolated showers of rain" }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 108, "text": "What danger is most immenent when an aircraft is hit by lightning?", "options": { "A": "Explosion of electrical equipment in the cockpit", "B": "Surface overheat and damage to exposed aircraft parts", "C": "Rapid cabin depressurization and smoke in the cabin", "D": "Disturbed radio communication, static noise signals" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 109, "text": "What is referred to as mountain wind?", "options": { "A": "Wind blowing down the mountain side during the night", "B": "Wind blowing uphill from the valley during the night.", "C": "Wind blowing uphill from the valley during daytime.", "D": "Wind blowing down the mountain side during daytime." }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 113, "text": "The saturated adiabatic lapse rate should be assumed with a mean value of:", "options": { "A": "1,0° C / 100 m.", "B": "0,6° C / 100 m.", "C": "2° C / 1000 ft.", "D": "0° C / 100 m." }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 114, "text": "Extensive high pressure areas can be found throughout the year ...", "options": { "A": "In tropical areas, close to the equator.", "B": "In areeas showing extensive lifting processes.", "C": "Over oceanic areas at latitues around 30°N/S.", "D": "In mid latitudes along the polar front" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 115, "text": "Weather and operational information about the destination aerodrome can be obtained during the flight by...", "options": { "A": "PIREP", "B": "SIGMET", "C": "ATIS.", "D": "VOLMET." }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 116, "text": "What cloud type does the picture show? See figure (MET-002). Siehe Anlage 2", "options": { "A": "Stratus", "B": "Cirrus", "C": "Altus", "D": "Cumulus" }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 117, "text": "The character of an air mass is given by what properties?", "options": { "A": "Wind speed and tropopause height", "B": "Environmental lapse rate at origin", "C": "Region of origin and track during movement", "D": "Temperatures at origin and present region" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 118, "text": "What cloud type can typically be observed across widespread high pressure areas during summer?", "options": { "A": "Overcast low stratus", "B": "Scattered Cu clouds", "C": "Overcast Ns clouds", "D": "Squall lines and thunderstorms" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 119, "text": "The symbol labeled (1) as shown in the picture is a / an... See figure (MET-005) Siehe Anlage 4", "options": { "A": "Front aloft.", "B": "Cold front.", "C": "Occlusion.", "D": "Warm front." }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 120, "text": "In a METAR, \"heavy rain\" is designated by the identifier...", "options": { "A": "RA.", "B": ".+RA", "C": "SHRA", "D": ".+SHRA." }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 123, "text": "With regard to thunderstorms, strong up- and downdrafts appear during the...", "options": { "A": "Mature stage.", "B": "Dissipating stage.", "C": "Initial stage.", "D": "Thunderstorm stage." }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 124, "text": "Which of the following conditions are most favourable for ice accretion?", "options": { "A": "Temperatures between 0° C and -12° C, presence of supercooled water droplets (clouds)", "B": "Temperaturs below 0° C, strong wind, sky clear of clouds", "C": "Temperatures between -20° C and -40° C, presence of ice crystals (Ci clouds)", "D": "Temperatures between +10° C and -30° C, presence of hail (clouds)" }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 125, "text": "What danger is most imminent during an approach to an airfield situated in a valley, with strong wind aloft blowing perpendicular to the mountain ridge?", "options": { "A": "Reduced visibilty, maybe loss of sight to the airfield during final approach", "B": "Wind shear during descent, wind direction may change by 180°", "C": "Formation of medium to heavy clear ice on all aircraft surfaces", "D": "Heavy downdrafts within rainfall areas below thunderstorm clouds" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 126, "text": "What phenomenon is referred to as blue thermals?", "options": { "A": "Thermals with less than 4/8 Cu coverage", "B": "Descending air between Cumulus clouds", "C": "Turbulence in the vicinity of Cumulonimbus clouds", "D": "Thermals without formation of Cu clouds" }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 127, "text": "The term beginning of thermals refers to the moment when thermal intensity...", "options": { "A": "Becomes usable for cross-country gliding by formation of Cu clouds.", "B": "Becomes usable for gliding and reaches up to 1200 m MSL.", "C": "Reaches up to 600 m AGL and forms Cumulus clouds.", "D": "Becomes usable for gliding and reaches up to 600 m AGL." }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 128, "text": "The term trigger temperature is defined as the temperature which...", "options": { "A": "Is reached by a thermal lift during ascend when formation of Cumulus clouds begins.", "B": "Is the maximum temperature at ground level that can be reached without formation of a thunderstorm from a Cumulus cloud.", "C": "Is the minimum temperature at ground level that has to be reached so formation of a thunderstorm from a Cumulus cloud can occur.", "D": "Must be obtained at ground level so Cumulus clouds can be formed by thermal lifts." }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 129, "text": "What situation is called over-development in a weather report?", "options": { "A": "Change from blue thermals to cloudy thermals during the afternoon", "B": "Development of a thermal low to a storm depression", "C": "Vertical development of Cumulus clouds to rain showers", "D": "Widespreading of Cumulus clouds below an inversion layer" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 130, "text": "What situation is referred to as shielding?", "options": { "A": "Ns clouds, covering the windward side of a mountain range", "B": "High or mid-level cloud layers, impairing thermal activity", "C": "Anvil-like structure at the upper levels of a thunderstorm cloud", "D": "Coverage of Cumulus clouds, stated as part of eights of the sky" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 131, "text": "What is the gas composition of air?", "options": { "A": "Oxygen 78 % Water vapour 21 % Nitrogen 1 %", "B": "Oxygen 21 % Nitrogen 78 % Noble gases / carbon dioxide 1 %", "C": "Oxygen 21 % Water vapour 78 % Noble gases / carbon dioxide 1 %", "D": "Nitrogen 21 % Oxygen 78 % Noble gases / carbon dioxide 1 %" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 132, "text": "What is the mass of a cube of air with the edges 1 m long, at MSL according ISA?", "options": { "A": "0,01225 kg", "B": "0,1225 kg", "C": "12,25 kg", "D": "1,225 kg" }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 133, "text": "The term tropopause is defined as...", "options": { "A": "The layer above the troposphere showing an increasing temperature.", "B": "The height above which the temperature starts to decrease.", "C": "The boundary area between the troposphere and the stratosphere.", "D": "The boundary area between the mesosphere and the stratosphere." }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 134, "text": "What is meant by inversion layer?", "options": { "A": "An atmospheric layer where temperature increases with increasing height", "B": "An atmospheric layer where temperature decreases with increasing height", "C": "An atmospheric layer with constant temperature with increasing height", "D": "A boundary area between two other layers within the atmosphere" }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 135, "text": "What is meant by isothermal layer?", "options": { "A": "An atmospheric layer where temperature decreases with increasing height", "B": "An atmospheric layer with constant temperature with increasing height", "C": "A boundary area between two other layers within the atmosphere", "D": "An atmospheric layer where temperature increases with increasing height" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 136, "text": "Which force causes wind?", "options": { "A": "Centrifugal force", "B": "Pressure gradient force", "C": "Coriolis force", "D": "Thermal force" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 137, "text": "Foehn conditions usually develop with...", "options": { "A": "Instability, high pressure area with calm wind.", "B": "Stability, high pressure area with calm wind.", "C": "Stability, widespread air blown against a mountain ridge.", "D": "Instability, widespread air blown against a mountain ridge." }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 138, "text": "The spread is defined as...", "options": { "A": "Difference between actual temperature and dew point.", "B": "Difference between dew point and condensation point.", "C": "Relation of actual to maximum possible humidity of air", "D": "Maximum amount of water vapour that can be contained in air." }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 139, "text": "What weather phenomenon designated by 2 has to be expected on the lee side during Foehn conditions? See figure (MET-001). Siehe Anlage 1", "options": { "A": "Cumulonimbus", "B": "Cumulonimbus", "C": "Altocumulus lenticularis", "D": "Altocumulus Castellanus" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 140, "text": "What condition may prevent the formation of radiation fog?", "options": { "A": "Calm wind", "B": "Clear night, no clouds", "C": "Low spread", "D": "Overcast cloud cover" }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 141, "text": "What process results in the formation of advection fog?", "options": { "A": "Cold, moist air is being moved across warm ground areas", "B": "Cold, moist air mixes with warm, moist air", "C": "Prolonged radiation during nights clear of clouds", "D": "Warm, moist air is moved across cold ground areas" }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 142, "text": "What process results in the formation of orographic fog (hill fog)?", "options": { "A": "Prolonged radiation during nights clear of clouds", "B": "Warm, moist air is moved across a hill or a mountain range", "C": "Evaporation from warm, moist ground area into very cold air", "D": "Cold, moist air mixes with warm, moist air" }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 143, "text": "What weather phenomena have to be expected around an upper-level trough?", "options": { "A": "Calm weather, formation of lifted fog layers", "B": "Calm wind, forming of shallow cumulus clouds", "C": "Development of showers and thunderstorms (Cb)", "D": "Formation of high stratus clouds, ground-covering cloud bases" }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 144, "text": "What weather conditions can be expected during Foehn on the windward side of a mountain range?", "options": { "A": "Layered clouds, mountains obscured, poor visibility, moderate or heavy rain", "B": "Dissipating clouds with unusual warming, accompanied by strong, gusty winds", "C": "Calm wind and forming of high stratus clouds (high fog)", "D": "Scattered cumulus clouds with showers and thunderstorms" }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 145, "text": "Measured pressure distribution in MSL and corresponding frontal systems are displayed by the...", "options": { "A": "Hypsometric chart", "B": "Prognostic chart.", "C": "Surface weather chart.", "D": "Significant Weather Chart (SWC)." }, "correct": "C" }, { "num": 146, "text": "In a METAR, heavy rain is designated by the identifier...", "options": { "A": "RA.", "B": ".+RA", "C": "SHRA", "D": ".+SHRA." }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 147, "text": "In a METAR, (moderate) showers of rain are designated by the identifier...", "options": { "A": ".+TSRA", "B": "SHRA.", "C": "TS.", "D": ".+RA." }, "correct": "B" }, { "num": 148, "text": "Under which conditions back side weather (Rückseitenwetter) can be expected?", "options": { "A": "After passing of a cold front", "B": "Before passing of an occlusion", "C": "During Foehn at the lee side", "D": "After passing of a warm front" }, "correct": "A" }, { "num": 149, "text": "How does air temperatur change in ISA from MSL to approx. 10.000 m height?", "options": { "A": "From +30° to -40°C", "B": "From +20° to -40°C", "C": "From -15° to 50°C", "D": "From +15° to -50°C" }, "correct": "D" }, { "num": 150, "text": "What weather is likely to be experienced during Foehn in the Bavarian area close to the alps?", "options": { "A": "Cold, humid downhill wind on the lee side of the alps, flat pressure pattern", "B": "Nimbostratus cloud in the southern alps, rotor clouds at the lee side, warm and dry wind", "C": "High pressure area overhead Biskaya and low pressure area in Eastern Europe", "D": "Nimbostratus cloud in the northern alps, rotor clouds at the windward side, warm and dry wind" }, "correct": "B" } ] }