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IFR Quiz—January 2024

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Published: December 17, 2023 Updated: February 10, 2025

IFR Quiz January 2024

Occasionally it’s good to go back and review the basics. This quiz shares wake-turbulence information you may not know. Don’t let one catch you by surprise.

1. Wake turbulence is created by the
- a. pressure from lift.
- b. wingtips.
- c. engine thrust.
- d. fuselage.
2. Wake turbulence causes ___ vortices.
- a. clockwise
- b. counterclockwise
- c. counter-rotating
- d. synchronous
3. A wake is strongest
- a. at its edges.
- b. near its core.
- c. inside its core.
- d. behind the wingtips.
4. Winglets rechannel turbulence energy into lift.
- True
- False
5. An aircraft departs with flaps and leading-edge slats deployed affecting vortex generation how?
- a. No effect.
- b. Wake decay hastens.
- c. Strengthens vortices.
- d. Slats are irrelevant.
6. A wake vortex tends to
- a. trap an aircraft within the vortex.
- b. cause in-flight catastrophic damage.
- c. overcome counter-control by a trailing aircraft.
- d. expel the aircraft from the vortex.
7. A wingtip vortex can bounce.
- True
- False
8. Pilots of ____ wingspan and ____ performance aircraft are more susceptible to vortex encounters.
- a. short, high
- b. short, low
- c. long, high
- d. long, low
9. The safest place behind a vortex is ____and ____.
- a. higher, upwind
- b. lower, upwind
- c. higher, downwind
- d. lower, downwind
10. What can help break up wake vortices?
- a. Precipitation
- b. Turbulence
- c. Other wakes
- d. The ground
11. “Tilting” is
- a. a vortex shift due to orographic lifting.
- b. caused by thermal lifting of a vortex.
- c. vortex distortion due to microbursts.
- d. the effect of wind shear on vortex flows.
12. A crosswind will ____ the lateral movement of the ____ vortex and increase the movement of the ____ vortex.
- a. decrease, downwind, upwind
- b. increase, upwind, downwind
- c. decrease, upwind, downwind
- d. increase, downwind, upwind
13. A ____wind requires the greatest caution.
- a. Light quartering head
- b. strong direct cross
- c. light quartering tail
- d. strong quartering tail
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