Question

An aircraft departs an airport in the Pacific Standard Time zone at 1030 PST for a 4-hour flight to an airport located in the Central Standard Time zone. The landing should be at what Coordinated Universal Time?

a) 1830 UTC
b) 1730 UTC
c) 1630 UTC
d) 1930 UTC

Answer 1

The landing should be at 1130 UTC.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this question, the aircraft departs from the Pacific Standard Time zone at 1030 PST for a 4-hour flight to an airport in the Central Standard Time zone. PST is 3 hours earlier than UTC. To find the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of landing, we need to add the flight duration to the departure time and convert it to UTC. Since the flight is 4 hours long, we can add 4 hours to 1030 PST, which gives us 1430 PST. Converting this to UTC, we subtract 3 hours from 1430 PST, resulting in 1130 UTC. Therefore, the landing should be at 1130 UTC.