6. Navigation & Flight Planning

Basic Navigation — Quiz

Test your understanding of basic navigation with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

For a planned true track of $090^\circ$, with a true airspeed of $150\,$kt and a wind from $060^\circ$ at $50\,$kt, what wind correction angle (WCA) must the pilot apply?

Question 2

An aircraft maintains a heading of $045^\circ$ with a true airspeed of $120\,$kt into a wind from $180^\circ$ at $30\,$kt. What are its approximate groundspeed and track?

Question 3

If true heading is $360^\circ$, magnetic variation is $10^\circ$ E, and compass deviation is $2^\circ$ W, what compass heading should the pilot fly?

Question 4

A dead-reckoning leg of $210\,$NM is planned at a groundspeed of $140\,$kt. What is the estimated time en route (ETE)?

Question 5

Which formula correctly gives the wind correction angle (WCA) under pure crosswind conditions?