The IFR Flight and instrument scanning

Question 1

What water conditions should be reviewed for IFR flying?

Answer 1

METARS (other airports as well), TAFS, Surface prog. Charts, Radar, check icing conditions and NOTAMS. check certification for Icing conditions.

Question 2

What is ILS?

Answer 2

An Instrument Landing System

enables pilots to conduct an instrument approach to landing

Question 3

What happens when the rain moves through an area?

Answer 3

Weather conditions change.

Question 4

When do you need top brief the weather conditions?

Answer 4

Departure airport, en route, at arrival airport

Question 5

When should you file the instrument plan?

Answer 5

before the departure time

Question 6

What is the next step, after receiving the IFR clearance?

Answer 6

read back the info to controller

Question 7

What are the training requirements of Instrument rating?

Answer 7

1) 50 hours of cross country
2) 40 hours instrument time. Actual or simulated
3) 15 hours of instrument instruction
4) instrument cross country 250NM with 3 different kinds of approaches.

Question 8

What are the top three skills that a pilot needs to develop for instrument flying?

Answer 8

1) Instrument Scan
2) Instrument instrument interpretation
3) Airplane Control

Question 9

What is a Glass cockpit?

Answer 9

Cockpits with LCD screens.

Question 10

What is a T pattern?

Answer 10

Arrangement of the instruments.

Airspeed indicator is on the top left
Attitude indicator is in the center.
Altimeter is on the right
and heading indicator is at the bottom

VSI is ont he right side of the T and Turn coordinator is not he left side.

Question 11

Where are the locations of the Instrument on PFD?

Answer 11

Attitude indicator is in the center, airspeed is on the left and altimeter is on the right. Turn coordinator is on the attitude coordinator.

Question 12

What is a standard or half standard rate turn?

Answer 12

On the heading indicator, mark and line represents the rate of the turn.

Question 13

How does the VSI is shown on PDF?

Answer 13

maybe a tape or vertical line with digital needle.

Question 14

What are the four fundamentals of instrument flying?

Answer 14

Straight and leveled flight
Climbs
Descents
turns

Question 15

What is a tachometer?

Answer 15

RPM.

Question 16

what is artificial horizon?

Answer 16

atititude indicator

Question 17

What is the connection between Altitude indicator with performance instruments.

Answer 17

Attitude of the plane’s affect can be read on the performance instruments.

Question 18

Attitude indicator is leveled but how to double check?

Answer 18

check altimeter to confirm.

Question 19

Attitude indicator : wings are leveled. How to double check?

Answer 19

heading indicator to confirm

Question 20

what’s is the most important instrument when instrument flying?

Answer 20

Attitude indicator. 2/3 of the scan is altitude indicator.

Question 21

What is the common error when checking the instrument flying?

Answer 21

looking instruments rapidly without knowing. Slow down and get the message.

Question 22

What are the scan errors?

Answer 22

1) Omission
2) Emphasis
3) Fixation

Question 23

What is omission?

example

Answer 23

ignoring one or more instruments during the cross check. Happens when attitude change is not checked with performance instruments.

Example: Leveling from climb but not checking the altimeter

Question 24

What is emphasis

Answer 24

placing too much importance on an isntruemnt

Question 25

What is fixation?

Answer 25

focusing all of attention on one instrument
mostly happens, when approaching climb or decent or heading during a turn. Pilot doesn’t want to pass the target but forgets the other instruments.

Question 26

All maneuvers done visually or instruments involve in

Answer 26

controlling pitch, bank and power

Question 27

What are the two basic methods of instrument flying?

Answer 27

“control and performance” and “primary and supporting.

Question 28

What are the control instruments?

Answer 28

Attitude and power indicators.

Power indicators vary with aircraft and may include manifold pressure, tachometers, fuel flow,

Question 29

What are the performance instruments?

Answer 29

reference to the altimeter, airspeed or vertical speed indicator (VSI), heading indicator, and turn-and-slip indicator.

Question 30

What are the navigation instruments?

Answer 30

course indicators, range indicators, glide-slope indicators, and bearing pointers.

Question 31

What are the Procedural Steps in Using Control and Performance?

Answer 31

1) Establish an attitude and power setting on the control instruments
create the image in your mind
2) Trim (fine tune the control forces) until control pressures are neutralized.
3) Cross-check the performance instruments to determine if the established attitude or power setting is providing the desired performance.

Question 32

Aircraft Control During Instrument Flight

Answer 32

Attitude Control
Pitch Control
Bank Control

After each, changes, always cross check.