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86. A Tiny Slice Of IFR

Instructors
John Krug

It’s not everyday you get to haul half a ton of auto parts in your airplane, but your friend has parts for a Corvette project that needs getting, and you have the plane to get it. It’s a great day until one small snag turns the road trip movie into an exercise in legal interpretations.

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85. NORDO Below The OROCA

Instructors
Jeff Van West

Slogging along in wind and rain at the minimum altitude for the airway, you’ve been in and out of communication with ATC for the past hour. A shortcut clearance promised to lessen your misery but now presents you with a situation they never covered with the black-and-white rules from your IFR ground school.

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82. Not A Warm Feeling

Instructors
Bob Nardiello

You can’t ask for a better excuse to use your airplane for pleasure than a weekend trip to the island. Conditions are perfectly flyable IFR, but a potential mechanical issue puts the whole plan in jeopardy—or does it? What’s the right level of response to a problem that’s not an obvious show stopper?

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81. The Lights At Columbia County

Instructors
Doug Stewart

It’s a dark and stormy night as you approach your home airport at the end of a long day. The showers passing through the region mean there is no obvious choice for an approach to end the day. What will you request from ATC that best balances convenience, risk, and payoff?

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80. Blind Climb At Richwood

Instructors
Bob Martens

You’ve added quite a few handy tricks to your IFR bag, including departing VFR to get your clearance in the air. It’s always worked without a hitch—until this time when ATC asks a question you never expected. Now your options are vanishing and you have only seconds to come up with an answer.

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79. Curve Ball At Palomar

Instructors
Jeff Van West

Your hotrod airplane has the latest GPS navigator, but that opens the door to procedures you’ve never seen before. How will you handle an approach in IMC when it contains something you’ve never practiced? Think fast; at your current groundspeed, the decision will be made for you in 20 seconds.

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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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76. Descend Via STAR

Instructors
Bob Nardiello

The upgrade to a turboprop has been everything you hoped for, but now you’re moving fast in busy airspace with ATC repeatedly changing the plan. You have seconds to decide what a New York controller expects as you descend for one of the nation’s most notorious airports.

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