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Junior Quiz
Pick your age and a topic. After every answer, your plane shows you what really happens: get it right and it climbs. Get it wrong and you see why.
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PilotinQ ACADEMY · JUNIOR · AGES 8 TO 16
How does a plane stay in the air?
Junior is for young flyers with big questions, and for their parents. Find out how flying works, what the weather has to do with it and how you could one day sit in the cockpit yourself. With a quiz and an experiment you can try right now.
- 8 to 16ages, with advice for each age
- 3 levelsone for every age group
- In your browsernothing to download
- Free to play, no accountjust start
01 · WHAT JUNIOR IS
Five big questions about flying.
Junior explains flying the way a pilot would explain it to a curious student: short, honest and with something you can try yourself. Each topic ends with something to do, from a quiz round to an experiment at home.
- 101 · AERODYNAMICS
How does a plane fly?
A wing bends the air flowing past it downwards. Because of that, the air pushes the wing up: that is lift. The more the wing is tilted and the faster it goes, the more lift it makes.
Did you know? A plane in flight has four forces acting on it: lift, weight, thrust and drag.
Play the quiz How does a plane fly? - 202 · WEATHER
What clouds tell you
Pilots always check the weather first. They prefer to land into the wind: then the plane rolls more slowly along the runway. A tall cloud shaped like a cauliflower can mean a thunderstorm, so pilots fly around it.
Did you know? Pilots read special weather reports called METARs, with codes such as FG for fog.
Play the quiz Weather and clouds - 303 · NAVIGATION
Finding the way in the sky
There are no signposts above the clouds. A pilot works with a chart, a compass and a clock: which heading, how far and how long. The wind pushes you sideways, so you steer slightly into it to stay on your line.
Did you know? Runway numbers are compass directions: runway 27 points roughly west, towards 270 degrees.
Play the quiz The cockpit and navigation - 404 · THE COCKPIT
What all those instruments do
Six instruments tell you the most important things: speed, the plane's position compared with the horizon, height, turns, heading and whether you are climbing or descending. With those six, you can fly even when you cannot see anything outside.
Did you know? The altimeter is really a pressure gauge: it works out your height from the air pressure.
Test yourself on the six instruments - 505 · BECOMING A PILOT
How do you become a pilot?
You start with theory and lessons with an instructor. In many countries you can fly solo from 16 and get a private pilot licence (PPL) from 17. If you want to become an airline pilot, you then train at a flight school or with an airline.
Did you know? Parents can find the full route to the flight deck in the PilotinQ Academy.
For parents: explore the Academy
02 · TRY IT NOW
A quiz in three levels.
Everything below works in your browser, on a laptop, tablet or phone. No account, no download.
BADGES
Three stars in a round earns the badge for that topic: Lift Ace, Cloud Spotter or Navigator.
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No account, no names. Your progress stays on this device. We don't use ads or tracking here.
03 · AGE GUIDE
What suits your age?
A guide, not a rule. A curious nine-year-old can do more than you might think. You can start a level lower and move up when it feels easy.
Discover and play
At this age you learn most by doing. Play together with a parent and talk about what you see.
Why it works
Now you can understand the physics behind it. The questions get harder: not everything has to be right straight away, the explanations help.
On the way to your first lesson
In a year or two, you could fly solo in many countries. Learn the way a student pilot does and see which route suits you.
04 · EXPERIMENT AT HOME · 10 MINUTES
Make your own elevator.
All you need is one sheet of A4 or letter-size paper. You will find out how a pilot steers the nose of a plane up or down.
- Fold a paper plane the way you always do and throw it gently straight ahead a few times.
- Bend the back edge of both wings up by a few millimetres and throw it again. The nose goes up.
- Now bend the edges down. What does the plane do? This is exactly what the elevator on a real plane does.
- Bend one side up and the other side down. The plane rolls. That is how the ailerons in the wings work.
05 · FOR PARENTS
Safe, and here is how it works.
This is what Junior does for young users. No more and no less. If you have a question that is not answered here, get in touch through the contact form.
No account, progress only on this device, no names, chat or ads.
- No account. Your child plays straight away. There is no sign-up and no email address to give.
- Progress only on this device. Stars and badges are saved in the browser on this device. Clear the browser data and they are gone.
- No names. Junior does not ask for a name and has no leaderboard.
- No chat or ads. There are no messages, no chat and no ads in Junior.
Clear my progress
One entry in the browser's local storage, called pq-jq-v1: age group, topic, 3D setting, best stars, badges and recent question numbers. No name, no ID and nothing that is sent to us.
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TOGETHERPlay together, no hassle
Everything on this page works in the browser, with nothing to download. Sit down together, pick a topic and talk about the explanations.
Start a round togetherACADEMYFor later
When your child is older and wants to know more about pilot training, the PilotinQ Academy explains the route step by step.
Explore the AcademyAre you a teacher? If you would like to use Junior with your class, let us know. We would love to hear what you need.Get in touch
Start with one round.
Pick your age and a topic, answer five questions and watch your plane climb. After that, you will already know more about flying than you did yesterday.