Taxi is defined as what?

• A. Preflight Inspection
• B. Taxi
• C. Round Trip
• D. Tail Wind

Answer: (B)

Taxi refers to an aircraft moving on the ground using its own engines to power the movement, typically on taxiways and runways to position for takeoff or to reach a gate after landing. This phase is all about ground maneuvering, not about the checks done before flight or about wind conditions. A preflight inspection is a stationary set of checks performed before taxiing or takeoff, not the actual movement itself. A round trip describes a trip that goes to a destination and back, not a ground maneuver. Tail wind is a wind condition coming from behind the aircraft, which is not about how the aircraft moves on the ground. If the aircraft is being moved by a tow vehicle, that’s not taxiing under its own power; taxiing begins once the engines are powering the aircraft to move.