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AFOQT Exam Prep 74, The Six-Pack — Primary Flight Instruments
Published 2 months, 4 weeks ago
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This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- The standard layout of the six-pack instruments: Airspeed Indicator, Attitude Indicator, Altimeter, Turn Coordinator, Heading Indicator, and Vertical Speed Indicator.
- How to differentiate the Attitude Indicator, which shows pitch and bank, from the Turn Coordinator, which shows the rate and quality of a turn.
- The method for accurately reading an Altimeter's three pointers for hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of feet.
- Why the gyroscopic Heading Indicator is stable but must be periodically realigned with the magnetic compass.
- How AFOQT questions require you to synthesize information from multiple instruments to determine an aircraft's state of flight.
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