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Free PSTAR practice Wake Turbulence

A helicopter in forward flight produces hazardous vortices

  1. Awhich rise above the helicopter.
  2. Bsimilar to wing tip vortices.Correct answer
  3. Cwhich remains at the same level as the helicopter.
  4. Dahead of the helicopter.

Why this is the answer

Per TC AIM-AIR (Wake Turbulence), a helicopter in forward flight sheds a pair of high-velocity trailing vortices similar to the wing-tip vortices of a fixed-wing aircraft. They trail behind and to the sides, not ahead of or above the helicopter.

Reference

TC AIM-AIR – Wake Turbulence

Question reproduced verbatim from Transport Canada’s PSTAR Study and Reference Guide (TP 11919E). The answer key is Transport Canada’s; the explanation is ours.

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