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BSAET 421 - Navigation Aid Maintenance
Prelim Exam

Name: Score: _____________/50

Course & Year level: Permit No:
Instructor: ________________________________________________ Date: _________

Note: * Any Erasures is considered wrong.

* Write legibly.

Test I. Multiple Choices: Encircle the letter which corresponds to the correct answer.
(Choose the best answers)
1. It is the positioning where the airborne receiver measures the time arrival with respect to its own
clock.
a. One-way range
b. Two-way range
c. Three-way range
d. Time difference
2. Positioning method where the receiver measures the time delay between the transmission of a pulse
and its return from a local transponder.
a. One-way range
b. Two-way range
c. Three-way range
d. Time difference
3. A positioning method where the receiver measures the difference in time of arrival between pulses
sent from two stations.
a. One-way range
b. Two-way range
c. Three-way range
d. Time difference
4. Airborne receiver measures the phase difference between continuous-wave signal emitted by two
stations using a single airborne antenna.
a. Phase positioning
b. Bearing
c. Time difference
d. Two-way range
5. It is the angle of arrival, relative to airframe of a radio signal from an external transmitter.
a. Phase positioning
b. Bearing
c. Time difference
d. Two-way range

6. Coordinates are used in local areas but not convenient for long-range navigation.
a. Map grip coordinates
b. Earth Centered Inertial (ECI)
c. Earth Fixed (ECEF)
d. Celestial Navigation
7. An inertial navigation system (INS) is a navigation aid that uses a computer, motion sensors (accelerometers),
rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and occasionally magnetic sensors (magnetometers).
a. Map grip coordinates
b. Earth Centered Inertial (ECI)
c. Earth Fixed (ECEF)
d. Celestial Navigation
8. It is fixed with the respect to the stars that doesn’t rotate with the earth.
a. Map grip coordinates
b. Earth Centered Inertial (ECI)
c. Earth Fixed (ECEF)
d. Celestial Navigation
9. It has the origin at the mass-center of any freely falling body.
 a. Map grip coordinates
b. Earth Centered Inertial (ECI)
c. Earth Fixed (ECEF)
d. Celestial Navigation
10. The point (0,0,0) is defined as the center of mass of the earth, hence the name "earth-centered."
a. Map grip coordinates
b. Earth Centered Inertial (ECI)
c. Earth Fixed (ECEF)
d. Celestial Navigation
11. Basic coordinate frame for navigation near the earth is _____________.
a. Map grip coordinates
b. Earth Centered Inertial (ECI)
c. Earth Fixed (ECEF)
d. Celestial Navigation
12. Aircraft operating over oceans once carried a ___________________ who used celestial fixes, compute position
and plot the fixes.
a. Human navigator
b. Flight engineer
c. VOR
d. Heading Indicator
13. Large aircraft had a ___________________, whose duties were to operate engine and aircraft subsystems.
a. Human navigator
b. Flight engineer
c. VOR
d. Heading Indicator
14. Navigation is one of the several electronic subsystems, collectively called:
a. Navigation system
b. Avionics
c. Director
d. GPS
15. During 1960s, ATC came to rely on a particular system in densely populated airspace. What is the system?
a. Surveillance radar
b. Avionics system
c. Navigation
d. None of these
16. After World War II, VOR stations and ILS were installed. What is the role of VOR and ILS and ILS after world war
two?
a. Basis of navigation
b. Improvement of defense system
c. Helps the research on auto pilot
d. None of these
17. Meteorologist learned to route the aircraft to cyclonic tail winds. When?
a. 10 years after the Wright Brothers flew.
b. After world war two
c. After the discovery of VOR
d. None of these
18. Aircraft were equipped with medium frequency and high frequency direction finders in what year?
a. 1930s
b. 1940s
c. 1950s
d. 1920s
19. During flight, it is initiated at the pilot’s option or at traffic controller’s request.
a. Call
b. Communication
c. Missed approach
d. Approach
20. The process of calculating one's current position by using a previously determined position, or fix, and advancing
that position based upon known or estimated speeds over elapsed time and course.
a. Mapping Navigation system
b. Celestial system
c. Radio system
d. Dead-reckoning navigation system
Test II: Enumeration: Write the correct answer on the space provided. (2 points each)

Three kinds of Positioning systems:

1.
2.
3.

Phases of Flight:
1.
2.
3.

Military Avionics:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Test III: Essay: Write your answer on the space provided. (10 points)

1. How does airline company take advantage of cyclonic tail winds?

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