SIFT Army Aviation Information Practice Test 2025 – All-in-One Study Guide for Exam Success!

To determine the altitude at which a pilot should level out from a descent, it's important to understand the relationship between descent rate and distance. In this scenario, the pilot is descending from 300 feet at a rate of 400 feet per minute (FPM).

If a pilot wants to level off at a specific altitude, they need to start leveling out 100 feet above that altitude. This is due to the descent rate; at 400 FPM, it takes 15 seconds to descend from 300 feet to 240 feet. As the pilot approaches the desired altitude, they need to begin leveling out to avoid descending below 240 feet.

Calculating backward: starting at 300 feet, if the pilot wants to level off at 240 feet, they would need to begin the level off at 240 feet + 100 feet, which is 340 feet. However, since 240 feet is the altitude they want to attain, they should initiate the level off at 240 feet or, if descended down to 260 feet as suggested in the options, they would roughly start leveling out shortly before reaching the 240 feet mark.

The altitude indicated in the choices that allows the pilot enough time to smoothly level out and reach the intended