PPL – HUMAN PERFORMANCE

1. Which statement best defines hypoxia?

Answer: A state of oxygen deficiency in the body

2. Rapid extra deep breathing while using oxygen can cause a condition known as?
Answer: Hyperventilation

3. When a stressful situation is encountered in flight an abnormal increases in the volume of air
breathed in and out can causes a condition known as?
Answer: Hyperventilation

4. Which would most likely result in hyperventilation?

Answer: Emotional tension, anxiety or fear

5. A pilot should be able to overcome the symptoms or avoid future occurrences of

hyperventilation by?
Answer: Slowing the breathing rate breathing into a bag or talking aloud

6. Pilots are more subject to spatial disorientation if?

Answer: Visual causes are take away as they are in instrument meteorically condition (IMC)
Answer: Body signals are used to intercept flight altitude

7. If a pilot experience spatial disorientation during flight in a restricted visibility condition the
best way to overcome the effect is to?
Answer: Rely upon the aircraft instrument indication

8. A state temporary confusion resulting from misleading information being sent to the brain by
various sensory organs is defined as?
Answer: Spatial disorientation

9. The danger of spatial disorientation during flight in poor visual conditions may be reduced by?
Answer: Having faith in the instruments rather than taking a chance on the sensory organs.

10. Which technique should a pilot use to scan for traffic to the right and left during straight and
level flight?
Answer: Systematically focus on different segments of the sky for short intervals

11. What preparation should a pilot take to adapt the eyes for night flying?
Answer: Avoid bright white lights at least 30 minutes before the flight

12. What is the most effective way to use the eyes during night flight?
Answer: Scan slowly to permit off centre viewing

13. The best method to use when looking for other traffic at night is to?
Answer: Look the side of the object and scan slowly

14. Large accumulation of carbon monoxide in the human body results in?
Answer: Loss of muscular power

15. Susceptibility to carbon monoxide poising increases as?

Answer: Altitude increase

16. What often leads to spatial disorientation or collision with ground obstacle when flying under
Visual Flight Rules?
Answer: Continual flight into instruments

17. What is the one neglected items when a pilot relies on short and long term memory for
repetitive tasks?
Answer: Checklists
 18. What are some of the hazardous attitude dealt with in Aeronautical Decision
Making (ADM)?
Answer: Antiauthority (don’t tell me), impulsivity (do something quickly
without thinking), macho (i can do it)

19. What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude such as “Antiauthority”?
Answer: Follow the rules

20. What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude such as “Impulsivity”?
Answer: No so fast, think first

21. What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude such as “Invulnerability”?
Answer: It could happen to me

22. What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude such as “Macho”?
Answer: Taking chances is foolish

23. What is the antidote when a pilot has a hazardous attitude such as “Resignation”?
Answer: I am not helpless

24. What is the common factor which affects most preventable accidents?
Answer: Human error

25. Which would most likely result in hyperventilation?

Answer: Insufficient carbon dioxide

26. The most effective method of scanning for other aircraft for collision avoidance during
daylight hours is to use?
Answer: A series of short, regularly spaced high moments to search each 10degree sector.

27. How can you determine if another aircraft is on collusion course with your aircraft?
Answer: There will be no apparent relative motion between your a/c and the other aircraft.

28. The most effective method for scanning for other aircraft for collision avoidance during night-
time hours is to use?
Answer: Peripheral vision by scanning small sectors and utilising the centre viewing.

29. During a night flight you observe a steady red light and a flashing red light ahead and at the
same altitude. What is the general direction of moment of other aircraft?
Answer: Aircraft is crossing to the left.

30. Scan properly for traffic a pilot should?

Answer: Use a series of short regularly spaced eyes moments that bring successive areas of the
sky into the central visual field
31. During a night flight you observe a steady white light and a flashing red light ahead and at the
same altitude. What is the general direction of moment of other aircraft?
Answer: Aircraft is flying away from you.

32. During a night flight you observe a steady red light and a green light ahead and at the same
altitude. What is the general direction of moment of other aircraft?
Answer: Aircraft is approaching head-on.

33. A person may not act as a crew member of a civil aircraft if alcoholic beverages have been
consumed by that person within the preceding?
Answer: 8 hours.

34. As hyperventilation progresses a pilot can experience?

Answer: Symptoms of suffocation and drowsiness.

35. Which is a common symptom of hyperventilation?

Answer: Drowsiness.
36. Which would most likely result in hyperventilation?
Answer: Insufficient carbon dioxide.

37. Hypoxia is the result of which of these conditions?

Answer: Insufficient oxygen reaching the brain.

38. To overcome the symptom of hyperventilation a pilot should?

Answer: Slow the breathing rate.

39. Which is true regarding the presence of alcohol within human body?
Answer: Judgement and decision making abilities can be adversely affected by even small
amount of alcohol.

40. Hypoxia susceptibility due to inhalation of carbon monoxide increases as altitude increases?
Answer: Altitude increases.

41. Why is hypoxia particularly dangerous during flights with one pilot?
Answer: Symptoms of hypoxia may be difficult to recognize before the pilots reactions are
affected.

42. Which statement is correct regarding the use of cockpit lighting for night flight?
Answer: Reducing the lighting intensity to a minimum level will eliminate blind spots.

43. What action should be taken if hyperventilation is suspected?

Answer: Consciously breathe at a slower rate than normal.

44. How can an instrument pilot best overcome spatial disorientation?

Answer: Properly interpret the flight instruments and act accordingly.

45. What effect does haze have on the ability to see traffic or terrain features during flight?
Answer: All traffic or terrain features appears to be farther away than their actual distance.

46. As hyperventilation progresses a pilot can experience?

Answer: Heightened awareness and feeling of well-being.

47. To scan properly for traffic, a pilot should?

Answer: Systematically focus on different segments of vision field for short intervals.

48. Abrupt head movement during a prolonged constant rate turn in the IMC or simulated
instrument conditions can cause?
Answer: Pilot disorientation.

49. Without visual aid, pilot often interprets centrifugal force as a sensation of?
Answer: Turning.

50. An abrupt change from climb to straight-and-level flight can create the illusion of?
Answer: A descent with the wings level.

51. A rapid acceleration during takeoff can create the illusion of?
Answer: Being in a nose-up attitude.

52. A slopping cloud formation, an obscured horizon and a dark scene spread with ground lights
and stars can create an illusion known as?
Answer: False horizons.

53. Due to visual illusion, when landing on a narrower –than-usual runway, the aircraft will
appear to be?
Answer: Higher than actual, leading to a lower-than-normal approach.

54. What visual illusion creates the same effect as a narrower-than-usual runway?
Answer: A down sloping runway.
55. It can take up to ____ hours for the body to dispose of carbon monoxide?
Answer: 48 hours

56. The only medicine found safe for flying if taken at minimal dosage are?
Answer: Aspirin and antacids

57. Flashing light inside clouds during night time can induce?
Answer: Flicker vertigo.

58. Hazardous attitude which contribute to poor pilot judgement can be effectively counteracted
by?
Answer: Redirecting that hazardous attitudes so that appropriate action can be taken 0