{Radio Aids and Flight Planning}
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1. What is "skip zone"? - ANSWER space between ground wave coverage
and sky wave return to earth.
2. distance between transmitting antenna and point sky wave returns to
earth? - ANSWER Skip distance
3. what happens to propogation of ground radio ground waves as frequency
increases. - ANSWER attenuation INCREASES to provide LESS reception
distance.
4. how does single sideband SSB increase transmission power? - ANSWER
eliminates one sideband and carrier wave. carrier is reinserted by receiver.
5. How are SELCAL tones generated? - ANSWER in the ground station
coder and are received by a decoder in the airborne receiver
, 6. How does a VOR work? - ANSWER Depends upon a phase difference
between two signals received simultaneously from a ground station.
7. VOR airway radial tolerance maintained by NAV Canada. - ANSWER +-
3.0 degrees
8. What is the minimum reception distance and height for a VOR signal
assuming no interference? - ANSWER 40nm at 1000 ft
9. dual VOR receiver tolerance - ANSWER +- 4° ground, +-4° air
10.Tolerance for VOR and DME receivers at VOR check points are... - ANSWER
+- 4 degrees and .5 nm
11.Abeam a VOR station the CDI is fully deflected and there is no TO/FROM
indication. - ANSWER Crossing a radial 90 degrees to the one selected
on the OBS.
12.What measures the time difference between airborne transmission and
ground reply of two matched signals on different freqs? - ANSWER
Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)
13.Can civilian aircraft equipped with DME obtain info from TACAN? - ANSWER
yes - select paired VOR freq on LO chart.