Originally Posted by CO88flyer

Was wondering if you guys could give me info on your career paths to the airlines. My son is in his second year in college and is now interested in this job. UVU seems interesting. I live in C Springs and the aero club at Pete Field has an agreement with them and ratings rides and flight time. I understand that you can only get an Associates degree there. Is that correct. Other than ERAU, Auburn, NDU, Purdue, Mid Tenn. where are the other flight colleges? Can someone explain what the FAA accredited schools really mean? What's the best way to get flight instruction? Any info on the schools would be great.

Originally Posted by gbruyn

Okay... need some help figuring out these questions on the gouge (maybe rule of thumb used and or source). Some I can figure out with some trig, but no calcs allowed during test.

You are on the XYZ VOR 090° radial at 20 DME. You are instructed to proceed direct to the XYZ VOR 180° radial at 70 DME. The direct, no wind heading is:
a) 185°
b) 190°
c) 195°
d) 200°

You are at airport A located at 33’20”N 108’02”W. You are flying to airport B located at 35’55”N 107’58”W. Approximately how many miles is it from airport A
to airport B?
a) 4
b) 120
c) 155
d) 200

You are on the XYZ 270 radial at 30 DME. You are cleared to fly the 30 DME arc to the 300 radial, and hold. You are flying at .6 Mach and it is 1800z. At what time will you arrive at the holding fix?
a) 1805z
b) 1810z
c) 1815z
d) 1820z

You are on the XYZ VOR 090 radial at 30 DME and you need to fly direct to the 190 radial at 60 DME. What is the no wind heading.
a. 180
b. 190
c. 210
d. 235

You are located at 34’20” N and 108’02 W and 38’50” N and 107’58” W. How many miles is it between coordinates

What causes the loud noise of a jet engine?
a. High speed of compressors
b. Fast moving air being ejected (Guessing it's this one but can't find source)
c. The hot gases mixing with the cooler atmosphere
d. Something Else

If there is another forum dedicated to this stuff, please point me in the right direction. Any help would be appreciated! Interviewing Tuesday and these are the last unanswered/non-sourced ques I have.

Originally Posted by CO88flyer

Thanks, That's a great option. I'm planning to send my son to my FAA Doc to make sure there are no red flags before beginning anything.

Originally Posted by Scoop

You know they used to throw in one or two ridiculously complicated questions to see if someone would get "suckered" into wasting a lot of time on one questions and then run out of time with a bunch of unanswered questions.

I distinctly remember a question about dumping fuel that was pretty much a "trap.'"

Not saying that is what you have here - but I would probably skip a few of those and answer them at the end.

Time management is important.

Scoop

Originally Posted by C130

Just a heads up - a lot of what passes as "gouge" out there is very outdated, with incorrect answers, and not on the Delta knowledge test. There are also a lot of questions in the question bank that have not made it to the gouge. In other words, if you studied nothing but gouge questions, like most of us did, you would probably only recognize about about 1/3 of the questions on the test. The rest you would have to use brainpower for, which hopefully all of your studying prepared you for.

Originally Posted by C130

Just a heads up - a lot of what passes as "gouge" out there is very outdated, with incorrect answers, and not on the Delta knowledge test. There are also a lot of questions in the question bank that have not made it to the gouge. In other words, if you studied nothing but gouge questions, like most of us did, you would probably only recognize about about 1/3 of the questions on the test. The rest you would have to use brainpower for, which hopefully all of your studying prepared you for.

Second, in talking to several folks who took the test, and reading the recent trip reports, to my knowledge there are no fix-to-fix questions or questions about calculating the distance between lat/long coordinates.

Originally Posted by gbruyn

You are on the XYZ VOR 090° radial at 20 DME. You are instructed to proceed direct to the XYZ VOR 180° radial at 70 DME. The direct, no wind heading is:
a) 185°
b) 190°
c) 195°
d) 200°

Originally Posted by Flycameron

This is a good question. I found two ways to solve it but not sure what's the best or most correct. The first is that this is a right triangle trig.
Tan X = 2/7
2/7 = .2857
Tan 16 = .2867
Thus, it's 196

The other option is to use the 60 to 1 rule. So if your at 60 DME on the 180 and want to go to the 20 DME on the 090 that is the same as a 20 degree turn. So your heading is now 360 + 20 = heading 020. We want to go the other directions so heading is now 200. So to be more accurate we have to go to 70 DME. If 60 to 1 then it's 70 to .86. So 20 X .86 =16.8. So 360 + 16.8 = heading 016.8. That's if we want to go from the 70 DME to the 20 DME going north we want to go south so the heading is 196.8.


So the answer I come up with is 196.8 but it would appear the only choices are 195 and 200. Guess I'll have to go with 195. Just sucks when the answers to choose from isn't even a correct choice.

Originally Posted by C130

60:1 rule, at 30DME, each radial is 2NM, right? So you moved 30 radials, or 60 NM. At .6 Mach, you are 6 NM/minute, so it takes you 10 minutes to make that arc. 1810Z.