Atpl — Meteorology Question Bank

She picked up her flight bag. “Let’s go fly the practical,” she whispered. “No multiple guesses up there.”

The bank had a memory: last month, a cadet chose the warm sector. Wrong. The comma’s head? No – the hook of the cloud, the north-western quadrant, where the occluded front wrapped dry air into the vortex. atpl meteorology question bank

Elena selected: “North-west quadrant, just behind the cloud head.” She picked up her flight bag

Pass.

Options: Descend below freezing level, Increase speed to reduce ice accretion, Request immediate climb to FL180, Activate engine anti-ice only. the north-western quadrant

was the killer. A satellite image of a comma cloud over the North Sea.

“The most severe icing and turbulence will be found in which sector of this mature polar low?”