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39. Snowplows on the Runway

Instructors
John Krug

Even with careful preparation and planning, you just might be thrown a curve ball during an IFR flight. How about a snowplow on the runway where you need to land? Handling this under IFR will test your knowledge of the system and experience in working it to your advantage.

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38. Localizer Approach at Suffolk

Instructors
Wally Moran

Advanced avionics in modern light airplanes should be a pilot’s best friend, but if a pilot doesn’t have a complete understanding of the equipment, a simple mistake can lead to big trouble. Sometimes just ONE button push, is enough to create confusion and leave you way behind the airplane.

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37. Night VFR Departure

Instructors
Bob Nardiello

A night IFR trip in a single-engine airplane requires the utmost in planning and preparation. Watch how a time issue, an unexpected trip back to the ramp, and a decision to depart and pick up the IFR clearance in the air have pushed you right to the limits of your capability. How will you react?

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36. Circling Approach In Michigan

Instructors
Bob Martens

You’re maneuvering your airplane to land during the final stages of a circling approach. Add low weather conditions, nervous passengers, and a few other minor distractions to the mix and the risk is quickly cranked up. Will this be straightforward, or a seriously challenging maneuver?

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35. Canadian Overflight

Instructors
John Krug

You and a friend are flying to Wisconsin to join a few hundred thousand fellow aviators for a week of airplanes, sun and brats. Your planned route from the East Coast was south of Lake Erie. However, a change due to weather creates a situation deep in Canadian airspace.

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34. Bad Weather At Little Rock

Instructors
Wally Moran

You get an urgent call from a friend whose wife and daughter have been involved in an automobile accident hundreds of miles away. How will you balance thunderstorms on your route of flight with your friend’s urgent need to get to the airport near their hospital right away?

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33. A Serious Attitude Issue

Instructors
Bob Martens

As instrument pilots, we’re dependent on our technology and cockpit automation to keep us out of trouble. This high tech gear is blessing when it reduces our workload — or a curse when we’re too reliant on it. See how a small technical glitch can push you over the edge in an instant.

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32. North Country Approach

Instructors
John Krug

Flying instrument approaches to remote airports can present unique challenges. See how this approach to a backwoods airport went from straight-forward to highly challenging in the blink of an eye. Understanding the IFR trap inherent in this scenario reduces your risk when flying IFR out in the sticks.

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31. Thunderstorm over Western PA

Instructors
Bob Nardiello

Cockpit weather equipment gives IFR pilots an edge. You can still get painted into a dangerous corner when your equipment tells you one thing about thunderstorms, while your eyeballs tell something different.. Finding your way out of this tight spot will help avoid such situations in the first place.

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30. Fog Over Georgia

Instructors
Wally Moran

You have a new glass-panel airplane, but you’re not instrument current or proficient using the new equipment. You are planning an important business trip and might need to fly IFR. A local CFI whom you’ve never flown with offers to make the trip with you. It seems like a good idea, until you get into […]

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29. Icing Over West Virginia

Instructors
Bob Martens

You’re cruising along in the clear, but below you is a widespread cloud layer with areas of forecasted icing. As you continue along your route, the weather conditions diverge from the forecast, and the situation deteriorates to the point where you need to make a critical decision.

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28. Night Visual to Pompano Beach

Instructors
Bob Nardiello

A visual approach can expedite traffic and save fuel while retaining an IFR clearance. However, visual approaches are not without risk for the pilot. The weather is good VFR and it’s a familiar airplane in familiar airspace. Yet you can still fly a perfectly functioning airplane into the ground.

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