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NIFE NAV EXAM QUESTION & ANSWERS 2025
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What are the three types of naviagation? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Dead Reckoning Navigation, Visual Navigation, Electronic Navigation What is the primary type of navigation? What are the secondary? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Dead Reckoning Visual and Electronic Navigation What is Dead Reckoning? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Directing an aircraft and determining its position by the application of direction and speed What are the components of DR? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔PTSD Position Time Speed Direction Which way do lines of latitude run? Which way are they measured? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Run East and West Measured North and South
Which way do lines of longitude run? Which way are they measured? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Run north to south Measured East and West Where do lines of longitude start and what is it called? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔0 degrees. Prime meridian Where do lines of longitude end and what is it called? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔180 degrees. International Date Line What is direction? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Angular distance from a reference Lines of latitude are also called what? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Parallels Lines of Longitude are also called what? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Meridians What is the primary instrument to determine direction? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Remote gyro compass card
How many degrees of longitude is one hour? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔15 degrees longitude What are the three categories for Electronic Navigation? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Stations exterior to the Aircraft: Ground and space On-board active transmitters: Radar, Doppler Self Contained: INS What is a Great Circle route? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Cuts the earth into two equal parts and is the shortest distance between two points What is a Lambert Conformal Chart? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Conical projection In a Lambert chart, what types of lines are equally spaced? Are they straight or curved? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Parallels Curved In a Lambert chart, what lines are straight and converge on the poles? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Meridians
What are the two types of Lambert Charts? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ONC and TPC What covers are longer range ONC or TPC? Which has more detail? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ONC longer TPC more detail What kind of projection is a mercator chart? How are great circle routes plotted? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Cylindrical Curved What is Course? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Aircrafts intended flight What is heading? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Where the nose of the aircraft is pointed What is Track? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Actual path an airplane takes over the ground
What is True Airspeed? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Calibrated airspeed corrected for density What is Ground Speed? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Speed of the aircraft over ground Is True Airspeed affected by wind speed or direction? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔No. What are the three components of the preflight wind triangle? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Air Vector, Ground Vector, Wind Vector, and Crab Angle What is crab angle? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Angular distance between the air vector an the ground vector What are the components of the Air Vector for Preflight winds and in flight winds? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔TH/TAS What are the components of the Ground Vector for Preflight winds? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔TC/GS
What are the components of the Wind vector for both preflight and in flight winds? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Speed and direction What are the components of the ground vector in in flight winds? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Track and GS What are the steps for flight planning? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Measure true course and distance Use Preflight winds to determine GS and TH Use Ground Speed to find ETE Use ETE to find fuel on each leg What is the primary purpose of the jet log? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Fuel management What are other purposes (besides the primary) for a jet log? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Assists with enroute communication, planning. How big is a Jet Log? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔5x