Quiz: Airspeed and Stall

These six questions will test your knowledge on airspeed and stall. How many can you answer correctly?
Andrew Wood | 09 June 2023
These six questions will test your knowledge on airspeed and stall. How many can you answer correctly?

These six questions will test your knowledge on airspeed indicators and stall. See you many you can answer correctly.

1. How will the stall speed of an aircraft vary between the beginning and end of a three-hour cruise? You should assume the cruising altitude and atmospheric conditions remain unchanged.

2. You are taking off from an airfield with an obstacle close to the end of the runway. At what V speed should you climb at in order to gain the most altitude in the shorted horizontal distance?

3. You are beginning your descent into an airfield and have extended a notch of flaps. With reference to the airspeed indicator below, what is the maximum speed at which you can fly the approach?

You are beginning your descent into an airfield and have extended a notch of flaps. With reference to the airspeed indicator below, what is the maximum speed at which you can fly the approach?

4. It is not possible to exceed the limit load of an aircraft below the Never Exceed Speed (Vne)?

5. The speed at which the green and yellow arc on an airspeed indicator meet is termed:

6. The application of flaps will reduce the speed at which the aircraft will stall. This is as a result of: