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DGCA QUESTION BANK FOR PILOTS
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CLOUD
#1. What cloud does hail fall from?
Cb
Ns
Cu
Ci
#2. Flying conditions in Ci cloud and horizontal visibility
Less than 500m vis, light/mod clear icing
Greater than 1000m vis, light/mod rime ice
Less then 500m vis, no icing
Greater than 1000m vis, no icing
#3. What is the composition of Ci cloud?
Super cooled water droplets
Ice crystals
Water droplets
Smoke particles
#4. What cloud types are classified as medium cloud?
Ns + Sc
Ac + As
Cb + St
Ci + Cs
#5. What type of cloud is associated with drizzle?
St
Cb
Ci
Ac
#6. Fair weather cumulus gives an indication of
Poor visibility
Thunderstorms
Turbulence
Smooth flying below
#7. What best shows Altocumulus Lenticularis?
#8. What are Lenticularis clouds a possible indication of?
Mountain waves
Instability
Developing Cu and Cb
Horizontal wind shear in the upper atmosphere
#9. In what cloud is icing and turbulence most severe?
Cb
Ns
Sc
Ci
#10. What will snow most likely fall from?
Ns
Ci
Cs
Ac
#11. A plain in Western Europe at 500m (1600ft) AMSL is covered with a
uniform alto – cumulus cloud during summer months. At what height AGL is the
base of the cloud expected?
100 – 1500ft
15000 – 25000ft
7000 – 15000ft
1500 – 7000ft
#12. Cumulus Capillatus
C
D
#13. Clouds classified as low level are considered to have a base height of:
500 – 1000ft
1000 – 2000ft
the surface – 6500ft
100 – 200ft
#14. In a Tropical Downpour the visibility is sometimes reduced to:
1000m
500m
200m
less than 100m
#15. What type of cloud is usually found at high level?
St
Ac
Cc
Ns
#16. What diagram, below, best shows Acc?
A
B
#17. Altostratus is
A low level cloud
A medium level cloud
A high level cloud
A heap type cloud
#18. What would be reflected to radar?
Fog
Hail
Cloud
Mist
#19. Which of the following clouds may extend into more than one layer?
Stratus.
Altocumulus.
Cirrus.
Nimbostratus.
#20. Which cloud would you encounter the most intensive rain?
Ci
Ns
St
Sc
#21. CB cloud in summer contains
Water droplets
Ice crystals
Water droplets, ice crystals and super cooled water droplets
Water droplets and ice crystals
#22. Which cloud would produce showers?
NS
AS
CS
CB
#23. When would you mostly likely get fair weather Cu?
15:00
12:00
17:00
07:00
#24. What type of cloud extends into another level?
As
Acc
Ns
Ci
#25. Ceilometers measure
RVR
Cloud height
Met Vis
Turbulence
#26. Which of the following will indicate medium level instability, possibly
leading to thunderstorms?
Halo
Altocumulus Castellanus
Altocumulus Capillatus
Red Cirrus
#27. What is the base of alto cumulus in summer?
0 – 1500’
1500 – 7000’
7000’ – 15000’
7000’ – 16500’
#28. When a CC layer lies over a West European plane in summer, with a mean
terrain height of 500 m above sea level, the average cloud base could be expected
0- 100 ft above ground level
5000 – 15000 ft above ground level
15 000 – 25 000 ft above ground level
15 000 – 35 000 ft above ground level
#29. Which of the following cloud types can stretch across all three cloud levels
(low, medium and high level)?
CI
ST
AC
CB
#30. Which of the following cloud types can stretch across at least two cloud
levels?
ST
NS
CI
SC
#31. From which cloud do you get hail?
Sc
Cb
Ns
Ts
#32. If you see Alto Cu Castellanus what does it indicate?
The upper atmosphere is stable
Subsistence
Instability in the lower atmosphere
Middle level instability
#33. To dissipate cloud
Subsidence
Decrease in temperature
Increase pressure
Convection
#34. Cu is an indication of
vertical movement of air
stability
the approach of a warm front
the approach of a cold front
#35. Which clouds are evidence of stable air?
St, As
Cb, Cc
Cu, Ns
Cu, Cb
#36. Lack of cloud at low level in a stationary high is due to:
instability
rising air
sinking air
divergence at high level
#37. What is the most common freezing precipitation?
Freezing pellets
Freezing rain and freezing drizzle
Freezing graupel
Freezing hail and freezing snow
#38. From which of the following clouds are you least likely to get precipitation
in summer?
CS/NS
CS/AS
CB/CU
CU/ST
#39. A layer of air cooling at the SALR compared to the DALR would give what
kind of cloud?
Stratus if saturated
Cumulus if saturated
No cloud if saturated
Convective cloud
#40. Over flat dry land what would cause cloud?
Orographic uplift.
Convective uplift during the day.
Release of latent heat.
Advection.
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