Air Law Quiz for NPPL Microlight Pilots - Get Your Wings

Welcome to our air law quiz, this quiz is provided for you to test your skills and to have some fun, it is not to be taken as an indication that you are ready to take the air law exam, that is for your instructor to assess!

QUIZ START

#1. Which of the following is it compulsory to record in a pilot’s personal log book? (tick all that apply)

Select all that apply:

Pilot status

Registration of aircraft

Place of departure

Date of flight

#2. What does a white flare from aircraft or irregular switching of navigation or landing lights mean?

My undercarriage won't lock down

I have no radio

I need to land in the opposite direction

I am compelled to land

#3. What altitude are you limited to when using MOGAS?

5000ft

6000ft

10000ft

You are not limited

#4. What is the minimum amount of third party insurance required for a microlight?
This is measured in Special Drawing or SDR Rights

SDR 0.75m

SDR 2.0 m

SDR 1.0m

SDR 0.5m

An SDR (Special Drawing Right) is a currency unit of the International Monetary Fund and is used worldwide as a method of determining value. It is based on a selection of foreign currencies and therefore fluctuates in value on a continual basis in the same way as any currency does.

#5. To keep your NPPL valid you must fly?

12 hours within 24 months
12 take-off/landings
1 hour instruction on a NPPL type you are licensed for
6 of the above hours must be within 12 months of the date of the license renewal

24 hours within 12 months
12 take-off/landings
1 hour instruction on a NPPL type you are licensed for
6 of the above hours must be within 12 months of the date of the license renewal

12 hours within 24 months
12 take-off/landings
1 hour instruction on a NPPL type you are licensed for
4 of the above hours must be within 12 months of the date of the license renewal

12 hours within 24 months
12 take-off/landings
6 of the above hours must be within 12 months of the date of the license renewal

#6. What is the minimum age you can fly solo in a microlight?

#7. When flying over a built up area you must

be at least 1000ft above the tallest structure 600ft clear horizontally and able to glide clear

be at least 1500ft above the tallest structure 600m clear horizontally and able to glide clear

be at least 1000ft above QFE 600m clear horizontally and able to glide clear

be at least 1000ft above the tallest structure 600m clear horizontally and able to glide clear

#8. What does this symbol mean?

Gliding in progress

Helicopter landing area

Medical flights only

Runway closed

A white double cross signifies that glider flying is in progress. A larger version marks an area to be used only by gliders.

#9. Your NPPL rating is one day over its renewal period of 24 months, you have met the flying requirements, what must you do to continue flying legally?

Have the license signed by an R rating examiner

Nothing the Licence is still fully valid

Fly an additional hour with an instructor

Retake and pass a GST

#10. What does this symbol mean?

Hard surfaces for Taxiing

Hard surfaces for landings

Hard surfaces for take-offs

Hard surfaces for take-off and landings

#11. Your Certificate of Validity (CoV) for your Permit to Fly has expired. what do you need to do to resume flying?

Select all that apply:

Sussesfuly complete a check flight

Pass and inspection by a BMAA inspector

Have a check flight with an Instructor

Receive back the new CoV before any further flights

#12. Order of priority in the air is?

Aeroplanes give way to airships gliders and balloons.

Motorised aeroplanes have the right of way.

Aeroplanes give way to gliders and balloons.

Aeroplanes give way to airships and gliders.

#13. What is the minimum age to hold a NPPL licence for a microlight?

Arms repeatedly moved upward and backward.

Right or left arm down, the other arm moved across body and extended.

Right arm down, left arm repeatedly moved upward and backward.

Left arm down, the right arm repeatedly moved upward and backward.

#15. What is the minimum visibility in Class D airspace when flying VFR below 3,000ft?

3,000 ft

5 nm

3 km

5 km

#16. How long is the Microlight class rating valid for?

36 months

12 months

Life

24 months

#17. Which of the following are notifiable?

Anyone killed or seriously injured while in or in direct contact.
Aircraft has structural damage or failures that impact its flying strength performance or needs major repairs.
Engine failures and damage to propellers

Anyone killed or seriously injured while in or in direct contact.
If the aircraft is missing.
Engine failures and damage to propellers

#18. What is the mandatory flight instrumentation for a microlight?

Air speed Indicator, Altimeter and Compass

Compass, Air speed indicator and Fuel gauge

Air speed indicator and Altimeter

Compass and Air speed indicator

#19. What is the marshal indicating in the image when their arms repeatedly crossed above the head.

Look here for your next instruction

This way, The speed of arm movement indicates how quickly you should taxi

You are clear to continue

Stop, The speed of arm movement indicates the urgency of the stop

#20. Can you enter a MATZ without clearance to do so?

Yes

No unless you are transponder equipped

Only a VFR flight travelling at less than 140kt may enter without clearance

#21. Which rules of the air do Microlights operate under?

VMC and VFR

VFR and IFR

IFR and VMC

VFR and ATZ

#22. You are in communication with an AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Service), where does their authority end?

Once you have left your parking area

Once you have entered the runway

When your wheels leave the ground

Once you have vacated the runway to taxi

Ref: CAA CAP 413

AFISOs are also permitted to pass messages on behalf of other agencies and instructions from the aerodrome operator. If they do so, they will include the name of the agency so that pilots will be aware that the message comes from a legitimate source, e.g. ‘Wrayton Control clears you to join …’.

With the exception of issuing instructions to aircraft on the ground, AFISOs provide an information service relating to the ATZ and aerodrome. They must ensure that the information given to pilots is distinct and unambiguous, as pilots will use
this information for the safe and efficient conduct of their flights.

An AFISO may request pilots to make position reports e.g.downwind, final etc. These requests do not have the status of instructions, although it is expected that most pilots will comply.

From the information provided by the AFISO, the pilot will determine if it is safe to land, take-off or transit
the ATZ. AFISOs are not permitted to refuse entry into the ATZ when requested by a pilot. The aerodrome authority may decide that they will not permit an aircraft to land at their aerodrome and request that the AFISO pass this message on. Such a message must be prefixed: ‘Message from the aerodrome authority…’ AFISOs may not issue such
messages of their own volition.

#23. Which organisation regulates Microlights airworthiness within the UK?

BMAA

CAA

LAA

NATS

The CAA regulates Microlights, however, some powers have been delegated to both the BMAA and the LAA.

#24. What commercial use may Microlight pilots undertake?

towing banners and instructing

Aerial photography and Instructing

Crop spraying and instructing

Instructing

#25. Can the time flown on your GST be counted towards you minimum required hours?

yes but not towards your solo or navigation hours

Yes but towards navigation hours only

No it's a test

Yes but only if you pass

Finish

Results

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