Free ATPL human performance 040 questions: 8 with answers
8 human performance questions from the ATPL bank of ForAllPilots, with no account and no sign-up. Answer in your head, then open the answer: the right letter and its explanation are under each question. The full bank has 990 questions for this subject.
The 8 questions
Question 1 · 040 02 physiology and health
A pilot approaching an upslope runway
- Aestablishes a higher than normal approach speed
- Bestablishes a slower than normal approach speed with the risk of stalling out
- Cmay feel that he is higher than actual. This illusion may cause him to land short.
- Dis performing a steeper than normal approach, landing long
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Answer: C. may feel that he is higher than actual. This illusion may cause him to land short.
On an upsloping runway, a pilot may feel higher than actual, risking a low approach and landing short.
Question 2 · 040 02 physiology and health
Which of the following symptoms can mark a beginning hyperventilation?
- ACyanosis (blueing of lips and finger nails)
- BSlow rate of breathing
- CDizzy feeling
- DSlow heart beat
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Answer: C. Dizzy feeling
A dizzy feeling can be an early sign of developing hyperventilation.
Question 3 · 040 02 physiology and health
The risk of a barotrauma of the middle ear is more likely to occur
- Aafter a decompression
- Bwith colds and rapid descents
- Cwith colds and fast climbs
- Dwith colds and slow ascents
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Answer: B. with colds and rapid descents
Middle-ear barotrauma risk is higher with colds (congestion blocking the Eustachian tube) and rapid descents.
Question 4 · 040 02 physiology and health
On ascent the gases in the digestive tract will
- Aexpand
- Bstay the same
- Cbe absorbed by tissues and blood
- Dshrink
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Answer: A. expand
As cabin altitude increases (ascent), trapped digestive-tract gases expand due to the falling ambient pressure.
Question 5 · 040 02 physiology and health
The retina allows for the acquisition of colours as a result of the:
- Acrystalline lens
- Brods located in its central part
- Crods located in its peripheral zone
- Dcones located in its central part
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Answer: D. cones located in its central part
Colour perception in the retina results from the cone cells concentrated in its central (foveal) region.
Question 6 · 040 02 physiology and health
During sustained positive G-forces the order of symptoms you can expect is:
- Ablack-out, grey-out, tunnel vision and unconsciousness.
- Bgrey-out, unconsciousness, black-out and tunnel vision
- Cunconsciousness, black-out, tunnel vision and grey out.
- Dgrey-out, tunnel vision, black-out and unconsciousness.
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Answer: D. grey-out, tunnel vision, black-out and unconsciousness.
Under sustained +Gz, the typical symptom progression is grey-out, then tunnel vision, then black-out, then unconsciousness.
Question 7 · 040 03 aviation psychology
What is the effect of tiredness on attention ?
- AIt increases the ability to manage multiple matters
- BIt leads to one's attention being dispersed between different centres of interest
- CIt reduces the ability to manage multiple matters
- DIt has no specific effects on attention
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Answer: C. It reduces the ability to manage multiple matters
Tiredness reduces the ability to effectively manage and juggle multiple simultaneous matters.
Question 8 · 040 03 aviation psychology
Motor programmes are:
- Arules that enable us to deal with novel situations
- Bstored routines that enable patterns of behaviour to be executed without continuous conscious control
- Crules that enable us to deal with preconceived situations
- Dstored routines that enable patterns of behaviour to be executed only under continuous conscious control
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Answer: B. stored routines that enable patterns of behaviour to be executed without continuous conscious control
Motor programmes are stored behavioural routines that can be executed without continuous conscious oversight.
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