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CPL & ATPL questions and answers for Indian pilots.
8,450 questions 145 chapter quizzes 11 practice areas
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Atmosphere, winds, clouds, icing, fronts, METARs and TAFs.
1,667 questions 27 quizzes
Eight questions across Navigation, Meteorology, Principles of Flight, Radio Navigation and Instruments, including three worked calculations. Each answer includes the reasoning.
On a Lambert Conformal Conic chart, a straight line most closely approximates a:
Great-circle tracks are approximately straight on a Lambert Conformal Conic chart. A great-circle arc is the shortest route between two points on a spherical Earth. Rhumb line and loxodrome mean the same thing: a track that crosses each meridian at a constant angle. A Mercator chart, rather than a Lambert chart, represents rhumb lines as straight lines.
Attempt each chapter quiz untimed first and note every question you got wrong or guessed. Re-attempt only those questions after a few days, then run the whole chapter again against the clock. A question answered correctly twice, a week apart, is one you own.
For numerical questions in Navigation, Meteorology and Performance, write the given values, the formula and the units before touching a calculator, as the worked samples above do. Most errors in these subjects come from unit conversion, not from the formula. For Air Regulations, tie each answer to the rule it comes from so that reworded questions do not catch you out.
Read the explanation even when your answer was right. The distractors in a DGCA-style question are usually the answers to neighbouring questions, so understanding why the wrong options are wrong is what carries over to the exam.
Start with the subject you are studying: Air Navigation is split into General and Radio Navigation; Meteorology and Air Regulations each have their own banks. Technical practice is divided into smaller areas, including Principles of Flight, Aircraft Systems, Engines, Electrics and Instruments.
Chapter practice lets you work through a topic, check your answers and return to difficult questions. Use aviation concept explainers for the diagrams and underlying theory. For advanced revision, continue to the ATPL question bank.
The Previous DGCA Papers area includes Meteorology and Navigation sets with Pro. Keep paper practice alongside the topic banks so that a familiar answer does not replace understanding the method.
Scheduled mock tests are separate from chapter practice. Check the mock-test page for available sessions and their entry requirements. Chapter quizzes remain available for focused revision between tests.
A free account includes starter practice and answer feedback. Pro unlocks the full question bank, detailed explanations and revision tools. The sample questions and answers on this page are open to everyone.
The bank covers General and Radio Navigation, Aviation Meteorology, Air Regulations, Principles of Flight, Airframes & Systems, Powerplant, Electrics, Instrumentation, Aircraft Performance and Technical Specific. These are practice areas; the chapter groups are not separate DGCA exam papers.
There are 8,450 questions in 145 chapter quizzes across 11 practice areas. The subject directory above shows the current count for each bank.
Previous DGCA Papers is a separate Pro practice area, with Meteorology and Navigation sets currently available. Air Regulations and Technical paper archives are in preparation. The subject banks on this page provide chapter-wise practice; they are not all previous-year papers.
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Browse DGCA Subjects →Charts, time, dead reckoning, flight planning and navigation calculations.
918 questions 11 quizzes
VOR, NDB, DME, ILS, GNSS, RNAV and PBN.
522 questions 19 quizzes
Rules of the air, air traffic services, licensing and human performance.
2,143 questions 24 quizzes
Lift, drag, stalls, stability, controls and high-speed flight.
978 questions 16 quizzes
Structures, hydraulics, landing gear, fuel and pressurisation.
403 questions 10 quizzes
Piston engines, gas turbines, propellers and engine systems.
297 questions 7 quizzes
AC and DC systems, generators, batteries and electrical components.
118 questions 5 quizzes
Air data, gyroscopes, compasses, displays and automatic flight control.
382 questions 9 quizzes
Takeoff, climb, cruise, landing, range and endurance.
163 questions 12 quizzes
Aircraft-specific practice, including the Cessna 172R.
859 questions 5 quizzes
Radiation fog is most likely to form when the sky is:
A clear sky allows the ground to lose heat by radiation. The ground cools the moist air above it towards its dew point, allowing condensation. Light wind helps mix this cooling through a shallow layer. Cloud cover reduces radiative cooling, while stronger wind tends to mix the cooled surface air with warmer air above.
An aircraft travels 120 nautical miles in 40 minutes. What is its average ground speed?
Given: distance (D) = 120 NM; time (t) = 40 min To Find: average ground speed (GS), in knots Formula: GS = D / t Where GS = ground speed in knots, D = distance in nautical miles, t = time in hours Solution: Convert time: 40 min = 40/60 hours = 2/3 hour Substitute: GS = 120 / (2/3) Calculate: GS = 120 x 3/2 = 180 kt The 120 kt option treats the flight as one hour; 240 kt would require 30 minutes. Key takeaway: Ground speed measures progress over the ground, so wind can make it different from true airspeed.
A wing stalls when:
A wing stalls at its critical angle of attack, whatever the airspeed, attitude or power setting. The published stall speed applies only to level, unaccelerated 1g flight at a given weight. In a steep turn or a pull-up the load factor is higher, the wing must fly at a larger angle of attack to produce the extra lift, and the stall is reached at a higher indicated airspeed.
An aircraft is on the 090 radial of a VOR. Where is it relative to the station, and what magnetic track takes it to the station?
A radial is the magnetic bearing outbound from the station, so an aircraft on the 090 radial lies east of the VOR. The track to the station is the reciprocal, 270 magnetic. With 270 selected on the OBS the flag reads TO and the CDI gives command sense; with 090 selected it reads FROM.
In the northern hemisphere, an aircraft turns from a heading of 360 towards east. During the turn a direct-reading magnetic compass will:
Turning error is largest when turning through north or south. Through north the compass lags, so roll out before the compass reaches the required heading. Through south it leads, so roll out after the compass passes it. The mnemonic is UNOS: undershoot north, overshoot south. Acceleration error (ANDS) is a different effect that appears on east and west headings.
In the International Standard Atmosphere, the temperature at a pressure altitude of 10,000 ft is:
Given: sea-level temperature = +15 °C; lapse rate = 1.98 °C per 1,000 ft (2 °C is used for exam arithmetic); altitude = 10,000 ft To Find: ISA temperature at 10,000 ft Formula: T = 15 − (2 × altitude in thousands of feet) Solution: T = 15 − (2 × 10) = 15 − 20 = −5 °C Using 1.98 gives −4.8 °C, which rounds to the same option. ISA deviation is the difference between the actual outside air temperature and this value.
After flying 60 NM along a planned track, an aircraft finds itself 4 NM left of track. The track error is:
Given: distance flown = 60 NM; distance off track = 4 NM To Find: track error (TE) Formula: TE = (distance off track ÷ distance flown) × 60 Solution: TE = (4 ÷ 60) × 60 = 4° Turning right by 4° parallels the planned track. To rejoin it at a point ahead, add the closing angle, calculated the same way using the distance still to go.
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Yes. Use the topic banks for CPL theory practice and deeper ATPL revision. Navigation is split into General Navigation and Radio Navigation, while technical topics have their own chapter banks. There is also a dedicated ATPL question-bank page.
This is an online question bank, not a downloadable PDF. Questions are organised into chapter quizzes with answer feedback and account-based score tracking.
Quiz practice includes correct-answer feedback. Pro adds detailed explanations and revision tools. You can read eight complete sample questions with answers and explanations below.