Text Box: General Aviation Trivia Quiz (answers below, along with the % of others getting the correct answer) 1. What year did the Concord enter commercial service? A) 1976 B) 1978 C) 1980 2. Which of the Wright Brothers was the first to fly in a powered craft? A) Wilber B) Steve C) Orville 3. Which Greek figure flew too close to the sun and fell from the sky? A) Apollo B) Daedalus C) Icarus 4. Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic? A) Amelia Earhart B) Charles Yeager C) Charles Lindbergh 5. What is the standard two-seat seating capacity of the Boeing 747-400? A) 486 B) 568 C) 658 6. What is the altitude record for a hot air balloon? A) 45,000 ft B) 55,000 ft C) 65,000 ft 7. Which aircraft for most pilots in WWII is the one they had to master before flying solo in a Spitfire? A) Tiger Moth B) Stearman C) Harvard 8. A microlight aircraft which is controlled by moving the fuselage about under the wing is known as a: A) three-axis B) flexwing C) paraglider 1. a 57% 2.c 44% 3.c 61% 4.c 70% 5.b 31% 6.c 38% 7.c 26% 8.b 32% http://www.flights4all.com/quiz_results.asp

 

 

 

 
 

 

He Did What?

“What do you do when your son is late to a tennis tune-up and team tryouts are two days away? Driving would take to long, so a Lake Villa man and his son hopped in his Piper Clipper airplane Saturday, March 1st, breezed above the congested roads and landed at a golf course across a highway from the tennis club, where skis on the underside of his four-seater glided across the snow-covered fairway. The FAA "will look at what happened and why," said spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory. It will review the pilot's certification, whether rules of flight were followed and whether the aircraft was properly maintained. The FAA could impose civil penalties that could result in revoking the pilot's certification,” (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ March 4, 2008)

 

What do you think? Did he break any rules? Between the FAA, IDOT, municipal laws, and insurance rules he may be in a bit of trouble. See what you can find, email me and a follow up will be in the April newsletter.  cindy@blueskyaero.com
 

Plane's landing not par for the course