78. How Much Fuel Is Left?

Instructors
Wally Moran
You’re cruising along in IMC when you discover three different methods of predicting your fuel on landing show three different amounts. If the largest number is right, you have enough to be safe. If the smallest one is correct, it’s not even enough to be legal. How will you resolve this dilemma?
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77. Heat Of The Moment

Instructors
Bob Martens
A “hurry up and wait” day for practice approaches creates a trap. When it springs, you find yourself in hot water after only minutes in the air. Is this an emergency that warrants drastic action, or just an abnormal situation necessitating calm thinking and execution of a practiced procedure?
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72. Hanging Out Over Groton

Instructors
Bob Martens
It’s a dark and chilly autumn night with your family in the back as you approach the seaside airport your plane calls home. You’re faced with a dilemma: Accept a few minutes flying low and over the water on approach, or divert only for fear of something so unlikely, it’s hardly ever considered.
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71. Phantom Aircraft At Erie

Instructors
Mark Kolber
After a challenging series of practice approaches, you return to your home airport to find that winds and traffic seem completely different than ADS-B weather led you to expect. In fact, it seems aircraft are popping up out of nowhere, busting VFR minimums, and landing the wrong way. What now?
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70. PIC Of The Right Seat

Instructors
Jeff Van West
Your airplane partner is signed off for his instrument checkride, but must wait a week to take the test. On an actual IFR day, he asks if you’ll file IFR and ride right seat while he flys to stay sharp. You’re not an instructor, although you’re quite proficient in this airplane. Will you do it?
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69. The Tower At Santa Maria

Instructors
John Krug
It’s a crystal clear night as you descend for Santa Maria, California on an IFR flight plan. You’re feeling secure and ahead of the airplane until ATC throws you a curveball that puts everything into question: They say you’re low, even though your centered on the approach and PAPI. How can this be?
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68. Maintaining Personal Minimums

Instructors
Wally Moran
Since getting your instrument rating, you’ve been steadily honing your skills–and lowering your personal minimums. Now you’re faced with an approach that’s below your current personal minimums, but above the minimums you were planning on going to. Will you give yourself a “field promotion”?
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67. Ice Fishing In A Mooney

Instructors
Bob Nardiello
It’s a shock to you and your buddy when just passing through a cloud for 30 seconds turns an IFR practice flight into a serious icing emergency. Now what will you do to salvage the situation and get an airplane safely on the ground when you can’t see out the windscreen and can barely hold […]
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