Another one, They'll pull out a ILS approach for say, runway 27, and ask the applicant: "How would you fly this procedure, and land on runway 9?"
The tendancy is for some people to say they would do the localizer for 27, and just use the circling min's for the appropriate category. Of course what they want you to say, is simply follow the glideslope down, as if you were doing the ILS 27, but your new DH is the circling min's, then they will ask, explain how you would circle for runway 9er at this point? When would you descend from the circling minimum? How far can you be from the runway while circling if you are a category B airplane? What if durring a turn you loose sight of one of the runway but still see the airport beacon and the control tower? What if you enter a cloud durring circling and loose all visual reference? If you were to go missed at this point while circling for the runway, what would you do?
They should ask about visual and contact approaches... Is there a missed approach procedure for visual approaches? (no)
Can you do contact approaches for an airport, without intentions of landing there? (no)
whats MEA? MOCA? MRA? MAA? etc...
They will certainly ask a instrument applicant what "they" would do if they lost electrical here... or wen't lost comm here...
If the aircraft your flying has GPS, they should ask about RAIM, WAAS, and when and where the GPS's lateral guidance changes and to what...
IFR equipment as required by 91.205 of course...GRABCARD or that sandtrak thing.
hope this helps whoever is working towards their instrument
