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Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems – Flight Reviewers · CA

Key exam facts

Format

Online multiple choice

Exam questions

Total questions: 30.

Time limit

90 minutes

Passing score

80%

Topics covered

• Air law, air traffic rules and procedures

  • Aeronautics Act: Section 3 - Definitions
  • Canadian Aviation Regulations 101.01 Interpretation (definitions)
  • Canadian Aviation Regulations 102.01 Application
  • Canadian Aviation Regulations 103.02 inspection of aircraft, requests for production of documents and prohibitions; 103.03 return of Canadian aviation documents
  • CAR 103.04 Record keeping
  • CAR Part III: 301.01, 301.08, 301.09, 302.10 and 302.11
  • CAR 601.01–601.04, 601.08 and 601.09: airspace structure, classification and use
  • CAR 601.14–601.17 and 601.20–601.22: aircraft restrictions and aviation safety hazards
  • CAR 602.96–602.103: operations and reporting at aerodromes
  • CAR 602.136, 602.138 and 602.146: radio communications
  • CAR 606.01 Munitions of war
  • CAR Part IX division I: 900.01 Interpretation and 900.02 Application
  • CAR 900.06–900.09: general operating and flight rules for all RPAS
  • CAR 900.13–900.20: registration of remotely piloted aircraft
  • CAR 901.01: small and medium remotely piloted aircraft application
  • CAR 901.11–901.50: visual line-of-sight general operating and flight rules
  • CAR 901.53–901.59: basic operations
  • CAR 901.62–901.75: advanced operations
  • CAR 901.175–901.181: training and flight review
  • CAR 903.01–903.03: special flight operations – RPAS
  • Transportation Safety Board of Canada, TC AIM-GEN 3.0
  • Air traffic services and procedures: advisory services, flight service stations, communications, clearances and aerodrome operations

• RPA airframes, power plants, propulsion and systems

  • Airframes: handling, care and securing
  • Electrical systems: components, servo motors and component integrity
  • Redundancies and critical items: risks of flying with inoperative systems
  • Control station: orientation, software version control and flight simulation
  • Data links: frequency bands, line of sight, antenna tracking, interference, gain and signal-to-noise ratio
  • Batteries: types and hazards, energy capacity, voltage, charge and discharge rates, configurations, maintenance, discharge curves and transportation
  • Fuel systems: types and hazards, quantity measurement, fueling and storage
  • Autopilots: role, levels of control, flight termination systems and software version control
  • Payloads: sensor types
  • Propulsion: electric motor types, speed controllers and internal combustion engines
  • Launch and recovery systems: launcher types, recovery systems, safety areas and templates
  • Maintenance and record keeping: technical logs, servicing, elementary and critical tasks, two-person verification
  • Magnetic compass: principles, variation, adverse factors and calibration
  • Altimeter: principles, errors and malfunctions
  • Airspeed indicator: principles, errors and malfunctions
  • Inertial measurement unit: components, errors and malfunctions

• Human factors

  • Aviation physiology: vision and scanning, hearing, orientation and illusions, body rhythms, sleep and fatigue, anaesthetics
  • Pilot and operating environment: medications, substance abuse, heat and cold, noise and toxic hazards
  • Aviation psychology: decision-making, situational awareness, stress, risk, attitudes and workload
  • Pilot–equipment and materials relationship: controls and displays, standard operating procedures, checklists and automation
  • Interpersonal relations: communications and operating pressures

• Meteorology

  • The earth’s atmosphere: composition, properties, density and pressure
  • Atmospheric pressure: measurements, station and sea level pressure, pressure systems and temperature
  • Meteorological aspects of altimetry: pressure altitude, density altitude and altimeter settings
  • Moisture: temperature variation, humidity, dewpoint, clouds and precipitation
  • Stability and instability: air mass characteristics, surface heating and cooling, lifting processes
  • Clouds: recognition, low-level types, precipitation and turbulence
  • Surface based layers: fog, haze, smoke and blowing obstruction
  • Turbulence: convection, mechanical, orographic and wind shear
  • Wind: pressure gradient, low level wind, friction, diurnal, sea/land breezes and topography
  • Fronts and frontal weather: structure, cold and warm fronts
  • Aircraft icing: formation, freezing rain, hoar frost and effect on launch and recovery systems
  • Thunderstorms: development, types, hazards and squall lines
  • Meteorological services: flight information centres, aviation weather website, ATIS, non-aviation sources
  • Aviation weather reports: METAR, AWOS and LWIS
  • Aviation forecasts: issuance, validity and aerodrome forecasts

• Navigation

  • Definitions: longitude, latitude, variation, track, heading, airspeed, bearing, wind velocity and drift
  • Maps and charts: VNC/VTA, topography, elevation, aeronautical information, scale, coordinates and CFS
  • Time and longitude: 24-hour system, UTC conversion, sunrise and sunset
  • Pilot navigation: charts, bearing, distance, variation, tracks and headings, airspeed and groundspeed
  • Flight planning: flying area, NOTAM, CFS, energy, weight and balance, documents, serviceability, wind and endurance
  • Radio theory: frequency characteristics, bands, propagation, limitations and interference
  • Global navigation satellite system: operation, loss and interference
  • Radio and radar aids: transponder and locator devices

• Flight operations

  • General: pilot responsibilities, defects, winter, thunderstorms, wildlife, collision avoidance, runway numbering, aerodrome operations and radio interference
  • Aircraft performance: density altitude and humidity, turns and flight manuals
  • Performance charts and data: launcher performance, crosswind limits, other factors and hover ceiling
  • Weight and balance: centre of gravity, weights and external loads
  • Critical surface contamination: effects and types
  • VLOS operations: landowner authorization, public safety, charging, site control, launch and recovery, obstacles, emergency procedures, roles, communications and post-flight actions
  • Extended VLOS operations: permitted locations, maximum range, proximity to people and types of RPA
  • Sheltered operations: location, range, proximity to people, C2 and lost-link behavior
  • Occupational safety and health: charging, launch and recovery, obstacles, emergencies, responsibilities, communications and post-flight actions

• Theory of flight

  • Principles of flight: Bernoulli and Newton
  • Aircraft components: fixed wing, multirotor and helicopter
  • Forces: lift, drag, thrust, weight and equilibrium
  • Stability: longitudinal, lateral, directional, inherent and centre of gravity
  • Aerofoils: relative airflow, angle of attack, lift and drag, stall
  • Propellers and rotors: handling and care
  • Wing design: planform, spoilers and flaps
  • Aeroplane controls: axes, control surfaces and trim
  • Helicopter controls: cyclic, collective and tail rotor
  • Multirotor dynamics: torque, controls, settling with power, recirculation and dynamic rollover
  • Load factor: turns, gust loads, turbulence, structural and power limits

• Radiotelephony

  • Communications: aeronautical operator certificate, terminology, common frequencies and emergencies
  • Crew member radios: terminology and reception performance

• Flight Reviewer’s Guide: conducting a flight review

  • Role of the Flight Reviewer During a Flight Review; Completion of a Flight Review
  • General conditions and responsibilities: affiliation, review limits, compliance, inspector participation, service, reports, results and requests for review
  • Guide to the flight review: scope, prerequisites, visual observers and airmanship
  • Failure, complete redo, minor, major and critical errors; record keeping
  • Crew resource management: problem solving, situational awareness, communication and workload
  • Flight review exercises, checklist and performance criteria: pre-flight planning, emergencies, take-off, manual flight, lost link, fly-away and landing
  • Evaluation guidance: comparison, reliability, validity, comprehensiveness and objectivity
  • Evaluation errors: bias, central tendency, generosity, severity, halo, stereotype, logical, narrow criteria, delayed grading and standards
  • Conduct of flight review: responsibilities, equipment, meeting and briefing candidate, sequence, pilot in command and emergencies
  • Post-flight debriefing and handling a failed flight review
  • Oral questions during the flight review: preparation, clarity, validity, handling candidate answers and qualities of questions

How to prepare

Work through the topics, read the explanation after each answer, and revisit the areas where you miss questions. Use the official outline and reference materials below to guide your study.

These independent practice questions are not actual exam items and do not guarantee a passing result.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources and references

• Knowledge Requirements for Pilots of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, TP 15263

  RPA pilot knowledge requirements, page vii

• Knowledge Requirements for Pilots of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, TP 15263

  Knowledge areas, section 1, page 8

• Flight Reviewer’s Guide for Pilots of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems

  Role of the Flight Reviewer During a Flight Review

• Standard 921 – Remotely Piloted Aircraft

  921.03(1)

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