SIFT Spatial Apperception 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A cockpit view shows the nose well below the horizon with the wings level. Simultaneously, the airspeed is increasing. What maneuver is being performed?
- Wings-level descent (Correct answer)
- Wings-level climb
- Right-bank descent
- Left-bank climb
Correct answer: Wings-level descent
A nose-below-horizon attitude with level wings and increasing airspeed indicates a straight-ahead descent.
Question 2: You are shown an outside view of an aircraft flying over a city grid. The aircraft's nose is pointing between two city blocks and the left wing is higher than the right. What does the cockpit view show?
- Horizon tilted with left side lower, nose near horizon
- Horizon tilted with right side lower, nose near horizon (Correct answer)
- Horizon level, nose above horizon
- Horizon tilted with right side lower, nose above horizon
Correct answer: Horizon tilted with right side lower, nose near horizon
A high left wing from outside means the aircraft is banked right, causing the horizon in the cockpit to tilt with the right side lower.
Question 3: An aircraft is heading east at low altitude over flat farmland. A road running north-south is directly beneath the aircraft. How does the road appear from the cockpit?
- Passing directly underneath, left-to-right (Correct answer)
- Stretching away ahead toward the horizon
- At a 45° angle to the left
- At a 45° angle to the right
Correct answer: Passing directly underneath, left-to-right
Flying east over a north-south road means the road is perpendicular to the heading and passes underneath left to right.
Question 4: The artificial horizon in a cockpit shows the sky bar tilted so the right end is up and the left end is down, with the miniature aircraft symbol above the horizon bar. What is true?
- The aircraft is in a left bank, climbing
- The aircraft is in a right bank, climbing (Correct answer)
- The aircraft is in a left bank, descending
- The aircraft is in a right bank, descending
Correct answer: The aircraft is in a right bank, climbing
The right end of the horizon bar up indicates a right bank, and the miniature aircraft above the horizon bar indicates a climb.
Question 5: An outside image shows an aircraft with wings level and its nose pointing about 20° above the horizon. A lake is visible to the aircraft's right. Which cockpit view is correct?
- Horizon below center, level, lake on right (Correct answer)
- Horizon above center, level, lake on left
- Horizon below center, tilted, lake on right
- Horizon above center, tilted, lake on left
Correct answer: Horizon below center, level, lake on right
Nose 20° above the horizon means the horizon appears below the cockpit center; level wings mean no tilt; lake to the right stays on the right from the cockpit.
Question 6: During a right-descending turn, how does the horizon appear on the cockpit's attitude indicator?
- Tilted with left end lower and positioned above center
- Tilted with right end lower and positioned above center (Correct answer)
- Tilted with left end lower and positioned below center
- Level and positioned above center
Correct answer: Tilted with right end lower and positioned above center
A right bank tilts the horizon with the right end lower, and a descent moves the horizon above the cockpit center.
Question 7: A pilot is flying at 5,000 feet heading south over a straight highway. The highway runs east-west. How does the highway look from the cockpit?
- Running left to right across the bottom of the view (Correct answer)
- Running straight ahead from the nose to the horizon
- Running at a diagonal from lower-left to upper-right
- Running from the lower-right to the upper-left
Correct answer: Running left to right across the bottom of the view
Heading south, an east-west highway is perpendicular to the flight path and appears to run left to right below the aircraft.
SIFT Spatial Apperception 3
A cockpit view shows the nose well below the horizon with the wings level.
Simultaneously, the airspeed is increasing.
What maneuver is being performed?