Scenario Based Training Flashcards
On a beautiful clear, sunny, VMC day, you are flying on an IFR flight plan. Are you required to be instrument current?
Yes
If you are flying an IFR flight plan, you must be instrument current
Thirty minutes after takeoff you enter the clouds. The climb through a cloud layer requires 10 minutes. The en route phase is 50 minutes and is above the OVC layer, at night. Descent requires 30 minutes through the clouds before breaking out into clear VMC. How much of this flight will you log as “actual instrument”?
Your answer must include regs pertaining to logging time.
Obviously, time through the clouds would be logged. However, the examiner has allowed you to judge if the flight above an OCV layer at night is “by reference to instruments”.
- I would log as “actual instrument” all of the time that I was flying by reference to instruments. This
would obviously include all time flying through cloud layers, but also any other time that I was flying
by reference to instruments
Your AC is equipped with a certified GPS, but during the VOT preflight check, both VORs failed to be accurate. You have no other means of navigation. How will this affect your flight?
Your answer must demonstrate your knowledge of a VOT check and the accuracy requirements, as well as your knowledge of GPS requirements
- I will not be able to file an IFR flight plan. To file an IFR flight plan, I must have an alternate (non-GPS) means of navigation unless my GPS is WAAS certified.
The airport that you desire to use as a required alternate airport offers only RNAV IAPs. How will this affect you?
If an alternate airport is required and that airport offers only RNAV IAPs, then the AC must be equipped with a WAAS certified GPS.
If there are IAPs that use other NAVAIDs, in addition to RNAV IAP, then I can file it as a required alternate with a GPS that is not WAAS certified.
