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Quiz: Wake Turbulence Avoidance

July 7, 2025/in Quiz/by Chris Clarke

Wake turbulence is an invisible hazard that presents an additional challenge for pilots operating light airplanes out of busy airports. Take our latest quiz and test your knowledge of proper avoidance techniques.

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What’s New in Airman Testing: June 2025 Updates You Should Know

July 4, 2025/in News/by Flight Training Central Staff

Each quarter, the FAA releases an Airman Testing Community Advisory (ATCA), summarizing the latest changes and clarifications in testing and training standards. The June 2025 edition might not break any news headlines, but there are several important updates that flight instructors, students, and aviation educators should keep on their radar.

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Quiz: Wake Turbulence Avoidance

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What’s New in Airman Testing: June 2025 Updates You Should Know

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Quiz: Wake Turbulence Avoidance

July 7, 2025/in Quiz/by Chris Clarke

As an airplane wing flies through the air an invisible danger swirls in its wake. The aerodynamic phenomenon known as wingtip vortices leave behind a circular pattern of rotating air. The resulting wake turbulence can be a serious hazard to light aircraft and a firm knowledge of their creation and dissipation is essential to staying safe while in the cockpit.

Wake turbulence is especially hazardous in the region behind an aircraft in the takeoff or landing phases of flight. During takeoff and landing, aircraft operate at a high angle of attack. This flight attitude maximizes the formation of strong vortices. In the vicinity of an airport, there can be multiple aircraft, all operating at low speed and low height, and this provides extra risk of wake turbulence with reduced height from which to recover from any upset.

The greatest vortex strength occurs when the generating aircraft is

heavy, clean, and slow.

heavy, dirty, and fast.

light, dirty, and fast.

Correct! Wrong!

Wingtip vortices created by large aircraft tend to

rise into the traffic pattern.

converge inward towards the center of the runway.

sink below the aircraft generating turbulence.

Correct! Wrong!

How does the wake turbulence vortex circulate around each wingtip?

Outward, upward, and around each tip.

Inward, downward, and around each tip.

Inward, upward, and counterclockwise.

Correct! Wrong!

Wingtip vortices are created only when an aircraft is

heavily loaded.

developing lift.

operating at high airspeeds.

Correct! Wrong!

When landing behind a large aircraft, which procedure should be followed for wake turbulence avoidance?

Stay well below its final approach flight path and land before its touchdown point.

Stay above its final approach flight path and touch down beyond where the larger aircraft landed.

Stay below and to one side of its final approach flight path.

Correct! Wrong!

The wind condition that requires maximum caution when avoiding wake turbulence on landing is a

light, quartering tailwind.

strong headwind.

light, quartering headwind.

Correct! Wrong!

When departing at an airport where heavy aircraft are operating, you can avoid wake turbulence by

rotating at the same point as the generating aircraft, since the vortices will have drifted to the side of the runway.

continue the takeoff roll beyond the point that the heavy traffic rotates and climb below the path of the generating airplane

takeoff before the point that the heavy traffic rotates and turn away from the path of the generating airplane.

Correct! Wrong!

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What’s New in Airman Testing: June 2025 Updates You Should Know

July 4, 2025/in News/by Flight Training Central Staff

Each quarter, the FAA releases an Airman Testing Community Advisory (ATCA), summarizing the latest changes and clarifications in testing and training standards. The June 2025 edition might not break any news headlines, but there are several important updates that flight instructors, students, and aviation educators should keep on their radar—especially as the new MOSAIC rule looms, and testing guidance continues to evolve.

Here are the highlights worth your attention:

MOSAIC Means Handbook Updates Are Coming

The FAA has prepped updated content for five essential handbooks in anticipation of the Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) rule. Once the rule is officially published, these addendums will follow 90 days later:

Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3C)
Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA-H-8083-25C)
Weight-Shift-Control Aircraft Flying Handbook
Powered-Parachute Flying Handbook
Weight and Balance Handbook

These updates are designed to align with new aircraft certification categories and privileges introduced under MOSAIC, so check back later this summer for downloadable addendums.

Flight Instructor Test Questions Updated

In case you missed it, the FAA finalized changes last December to 14 CFR §61.197 and §61.199, modernizing recency of experience and reinstatement requirements for CFIs. In response, the FAA updated knowledge test questions to match the revised regs. These revised questions went live June 18, 2025.

ACS Codes Now on More Tests

The FAA continues its transition to a more transparent and structured knowledge testing system. As of this advisory, 31 of the 89 airman knowledge tests now feature ACS codes directly on the score report (AKTR). This allows applicants and instructors to easily tie missed questions back to specific standards—making post-test debriefs more actionable.

Other Notables

The FAA is removing the outdated Flying Light Twins Safely pamphlet from the ACS reference list and encouraging pilots to rely on the Airplane Flying Handbook for multiengine topics, especially Vmc.
Two new Sport Pilot helicopter knowledge exams (simplified flight controls) are coming, aligned with MOSAIC.
Sample tests offered through PSI are being upgraded with a better user interface and more representative content.

While these updates may seem incremental, they’re part of a broader effort to synchronize testing standards, study materials, and regulatory language across the board. As always, staying current—whether as a student or CFI—means keeping an eye on the details.

For a full copy of the June 2025 ATCA, visit FAA.gov/training_testing/testing.

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Quiz: Wake Turbulence Avoidance

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