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10 Commercial Pilot Oral Exam Questions and How to Answer Them

Northstar VFR

Under VFR, the MEF guarantees 100’ obstacle/terrain clearance within that quadrant. You encounter icing, and your pitot tube completely ices over, but your static port remains open. Do you need a taxi clearance from ground control in this area? You are at 8,000’ MSL and climbing at 85kt.

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Getting Back in the Air

Plane and Pilot

Repairs included replacing the pitot tube/angle-of-attack sensor and the outside air temperature probe. The plan was to shoot an instrument landing system (ILS) at the military airport next door, but clearance delivery told us they were landing the other direction.