IFR Pre-flight Test Flashcards
How often does the pitot-static system have to be certified?
2 years
Tolerance for the altimeter?
50 feet
What documents do we need to have aboard this flight today?
AROWJIL
What are the key components to obtain weather information?
GFA’s, metars, TAFs, freezing level, radar, sigmets, airmets, pireps
GFA: Graphical Area Forecasts; METAR: Meteorological Aerodrome Report; TAF: Terminal Aerodrome Forecast; SIGMET: Significant Meteorological Information; AIRMET: Airmen’s Meteorological Information; PIREP: Pilot Report.
When and who are you required to notify when there is a change in your flight plan or itinerary?
altitude, 5% TAS, mach#.01, route, destination
When are you required to file an arrival report for a flight plan? Itinerary?
within 24 hours
When can you cancel IFR? IFR flight plan?
company note
In what situations may you enter a class F airspace as an IFR pilot
pilot states that permission has been obtained from the user agency to enter the airspace, the aircraft is operating on an altitude reservation approval (ALTRV APVL), or the aircraft has been cleared for a contact or visual
approach
What are the privileges of an instrument rating? Validity?
24 months
Recency requirements for instrument rating
Previous 6 months, 6 hours, 6 approaches in an airplane or class b, c, or d simulator, or as an instructor
What are the requirements for equipment?
AI, VSI, OAT GAUGE, PITOT HEAT, VACUUM POWER FAILURE DEVICE, ALTERNATE STATIC SOURCE, 2 WAY RADIO, 2 NAV EQUIPMENT, ALTIMETERx2, TC
What is the legal take off visibility today?
spec vis or not assessed
In order of precedence how is take off visibility defined?
rvr, reported vis, pic
You are cleared to maintain runway heading on departure, do you track runway heading or just fly the heading?
Just fly the heading (Tower has taken into account the drift)
Sid scenario:
Yyou depart the airport in IMC and you have a comm. Failure what do you do?
Follow sid instructions
What is MEA Gap?
MEA GAP: A navigational course guidance gap that describes a distance along an airway or route segment where a gap in navigational signal coverage exists. The navigational gap may not exceed a specific distance that varies directly with altitude.
MEA: minimum, expected, assigned
When can you request to fly below the MEA?
icing, turbulence, engine failure, if you have a GPS
Will ATC authorize an IFR flight below the MOCA?
No
Refer to lo chart and set up scenario
While operating IFR in controlled airspace what procedures will you follow in the event you experience a communications failure in order to establish communications with ATC?
squawk 7600 maintain listening watch, call another ATS, use cell phone, other aircraft to relay message
Refer to lo chart and flight plan
If a communications failure occurs en-route in IMC, in order of precedence what action will you take in respect to your route?
- Fly the route assigned in last clearance.
- If radar vectored fly direct to the fix, route or airway specified in the vector clearance.
- In absence of an assigned route, by the route ATC has advised in ae EXPECTED further clearance.
- In absence of clearance of EFC, the route filed on the flight plan. AVEF ( Assigned, vectored, expected, filed)
Refer to lo chart and flight plan
In order of precedence what altitude will you fly?
- Altitude assigned in the last clearance.
- The minimum IFR altitude.
- The altitude assigned in an EFC. MEA must fly the highest of these
MEA: minimum, expected, assigned
When are you required to give En-route IFR position reports? What information will they contain?
asked or flying over mandatory reporting point
While operating in uncontrolled airspace when should you make position reports and what information should they contain?
Over all nav-aids along the route to the nearest ATF and 126.7, they should contain present position, attitude, and track, altimeter setting in use, next positions and ETA
What is the maximum holding speed for your aircraft?
200 at or below 6000,
230 between 6000-14,000,
265 above 14,000,
310 for shuttling above
What is the timing in-bound at 14000’ higher?
1.5 over 14,000 1 minute below.
After receiving a holding clearance you experience a communications failure, what are your actions?
commence an approach at the EAT (expected approach time) or EFC (expected further clearance)
If the fix does not connect directly to an approach, leave the fix at the EFC time, proceed to a fix where an approach begins, and commence descent and or an approach as close as possible to the ETE. Calculated in the flight plan or amended with ATC
What is considered to be the minimum descent rate for your aircraft?
500 fpm. Piston, 1000fpm. Turbine.
Based on today’s temperature, will the altitude correction chart be necessary?
Look at station temp. Is it below 0º?
What criteria do you need to have an approach ban?
runway served by rvr
When can you go past the FAF and continue the approach?
When the rvr is received the aircraft is already past the faf, the pic has informed atc that the aircraft is on a training flight and will initiate missed approach, the rvr is fluctuation above and below 1200’, the reported ground visibility is at least a ¼ mile
and rvr is below 1200’ due to a localized phenomenon
When can you descend below D.H, MDA?
When you have visual of runway
What is the significance of the number beside the approach limits?
Advisory only
What are landings governed by?
DH/MDA PERIOD
(weather, METAR info, cloud heights)
What do you do in case of a missed approach when circling?
turn towards center of airport and climb
You are on a circling approach, you have just crossed midfield and you are at the MDA with the field in sight. There is a cloud in front of you and you cannot go around it, can you descend below it?
no, it is an instrument approach and you are at the MDA
What would you do in the missed for that? The approach you are circling to or the approach you flew?
The approach you flew
What dangers are there when commencing a circling approach when the weather is at minimums?
obstacles around the airport, going back into cloud
Can you do a Circling approach if there is no Circling minimums published?
Yes you can but you would use LNAV minimums.
How many precision approaches exist at our alternate?
Remember LPV doesn’t count and it has to be a useable runway
If only one exists, what are the weather limits?
600-2 or 300-1
Other limits: 700-1 1/2 and 800 and 1
If there is two precision approaches what are the weather limits?
400-1 or 200-1/2
If there is only a non precision approach what are the alternate requirements?
800-2 or 300-1
Sliding scale: 900-11/2 or 1000-1
What if there is no IFR approach available?
no lower than 500 above a minimum IFR altitude that will permit a VFR approach and landing - AMA (Area Minimum Altitude)
Is our alternate served by an aerodrome advisory?
500 above the lowest usable hat/haa and 3 sm
Can an aerodrome served by a GFA qualify as an alternate and if so what are the limits?
no cloud 1000 feet above the lowest useable hat/haa, no cb’s and 3 sm
If the hat is 615’, what ceiling value will you use to round this figure off for flight planning purposes? 438’?
600, 500
When planning for an alternate that has the term BECMG in the forecast, what consideration must you make for flight planning? TEMPO? PROB?
- BECMG - the worst of part of it is used
- TEMPO - use alternate minimums
- PROB - use landing minimums
What does a stormscope do?
It detects lightning discharge
Why do some airports have lower advisory visibility than others?
The lower the advisory visibility the better the approach lighting is. Example: lower at YWG because of the super bright lights.
What are the aircraft speed categories and associated circling approach distances?
Check CAP GEN
What is the difference between a contact and visual approach?
Contact, 1NM vis, clear of cloud, familiarity of the aerodrome environment, upon missed ATC will ensure IFR separation from other IFR flights and will issue specific missed approach instructions if there is any doubt that a landing will be
accomplished.
Visual, the reported ceiling at the destination airport is 500 ft or more above the minimum IFR altitude and the ground visibility is 3 statute miles or more;
b) at a controlled or uncontrolled airport, the pilot reports sighting the airport; and c) at a controlled airport, (i) the pilot reports sighting the preceding aircraft
Why do we do commercial pilots usually do contact approaches? Why do a contact
approach?
Save time and money by doing the closest approach and then using the contact method to break minimums and circle around to use the active runway if it happens to be on the opposite side instead of flying all the way to the opposite side of the airport to do a full approach.
How often do the GPS databases need to be updated?
28 days
