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I'm studying for the FAA written exam. That's the test that shows you've done the book learning for the exam. Since it's an official test, it's required that the exam question pool be public. That means that I can take practice tests. One thing that I've always found hard about things like regulations and laws is that they are spelled out in words, when a graphical representation would be much more clear. For Example, Federal Aviation Regulation 91.113 is the right-of-way rules for aircraft. As other regulations, it lists who must give way to whom, and what the exceptions and overrides are. You have to diagram it just to make sure you're not missing anything. I've attempted to do that here. If there are aircraft of two descriptions, then the one that is higher in the table has the right of way. Headings in italics indicates divisions between different situations and are not themselves descriptions. The relevant descriptions are below the headings.
| in distress | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| landing | |||
| converging head-on | converging not head-on | overtaking | |
| alter course to right | same category | different categories | overtaking aircraft pass clear to right |
| aircraft on right has right-of-way | baloon | ||
| glider | |||
| towing/refueling | |||
| airship | |||
| powered parachute/weight shift/airplane/rotorcraft | |||