Instrument Stage 3 Questions and Answers
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What four factors must you consider when looking at the flight plan preliminary overview?
✔️✔️Weather, airplane performance and equipment, potential routes, and instrument
proficiency.
When does the weather forecast at your alternate need to be at least 800 feet and two miles
visibility so you can make a nonprecision approach? ✔️✔️At the estimated time of arrival
During an IFR flight, FAR 91.167 requires you to have enough fuel onboard to do what?
✔️✔️Complete the flight to the primary destination, fly from the primary airport to the filed
alternate airport, and fly an additional 45 minutes at normal cruising speed.
You are in cruise flight and smell electrical smoke. This could become a very dangerous
situation. You are unable to contact ATC on the currently assigned frequency. You feel that you
are in a distress situation and an accident is imminent. What should you do? ✔️✔️Begin your
call by repeating the word MAYDAY three times, use the emergency frequency 121.5, and
provide only as much information as necessary under the current conditions.
You declare that you are in distress and state the name of the station you are addressing.
Depending on your situation, what other information should you provide ATC to declare an
emergency? ✔️✔️Your aircraft identification and type, the nature of the distress or urgency,
whether you are flying VFR or IFR, and your intentions and request.
You are on an IFR flight and the number one nav receiver fails enroute. Which of the following
reports is a complete malfunction report? ✔️✔️Chicago Center, Cessna 1234A, number one
VHF nav receiver inop, request NDB approach.
,You have arrived near the destination airport and ATC has issued a holding clearance due to
high volume of traffic. At the EFC time, ATC extends the hold another 15 minutes. You evaluate
the fuel situation and recognize that you need priority handling. What actions should you take?
✔️✔️Declare a fuel emergency
You are on an IFR flight when you suspect your attitude indicator and gyroscopic heading
indicator have failed. You cross check the remaining instruments and verify the failure. You
decide to use the autopilot to help you fly the aircraft. What else should you do in this
situation? ✔️✔️Cover the failed instrument so you are not distracted by the incorrect
information it provides. Contact ATC and make an appropriate malfunction report.
You check your communications equipment and suspect that your transmitter is inoperative.
How do you alert ATC of the failure? ✔️✔️Attempt to reestablish communication by
contacting ATC on a previously assigned frequency or calling an FSS. Listen for ATC instructions
on any operational receiver.
You are flying in IFR conditions and have a two-way communications failure. What route must
you follow to comply with the FARs? ✔️✔️If you are being radar vectored, fly the direct route
from the point of radio failure to the fix, route, or airway specified in the vector clearance;
otherwise, fly the route assigned in the last ATC clearance received.
ATC has assigned you a cruise altitude of 10,000 feet, and the route of flight is on V494. You are
in IFR conditions when both COMM radios fail. What altitudes must you fly to comply with FAR
lost communication procedures? ✔️✔️Prior to VIKES intersection, begin a climb to 12,000
feet. You must cross VIKES at or above 11,000 feet.
, Refer to the chart. You are holding at JUPEX intersection as published at 2,500 feet. ATC has not
issued an EFC time. After you enter the hold, all COMM radios fail. When should you begin this
approach? ✔️✔️Depart JUPEX at the ETA on the flight plan and conduct the approach.
Refer to the chart. You are holding at the EHF VOR as published at 4,000 feet. ATC issues an EFC
time just prior to a complete COMM failure. When should you begin this approach?
✔️✔️Depart holding at EHF VOR at the EFC time, proceed to JUPEX, make the course reversal,
and conduct the approach.
You are approaching your destination airport when all of your nav radios fail. Fortunately, the
airport has radar approaches available. What do you need to consider before performing radar
approaches? ✔️✔️Radar approach procedures require a ground-based radar facility and a
functioning airborne radio transmitter and receiver. Radar approaches are only available at
airports for which civil radar instrument approach minimums are published.
Your navigation radios have failed, and you will be making an ASR approach at the destination
airport. What information can the controller provide during an airport surveillance radar (ASR)
approach? ✔️✔️Headings to align your airplane with the extended centerline of the landing
runway; information about when to start the descent to the MDA or, if appropriate, to an
intermediate stepdown fix and then to the MDA; and the location of the missed approach point
(MAP)
NOTAMS indicate the ILS is out of service at your destination airport. A PAR approach will be
used as a substitute. What information does the controller provide during precision approach
radar (PAR) approach? ✔️✔️Headings to fly to align your airplane with the extended
centerline of the landing runway; glide slope intercept 10 to 30 seconds before it occurs;
descent information to align an aircraft on a glidepath to the runway
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What four factors must you consider when looking at the flight plan preliminary overview?
✔️✔️Weather, airplane performance and equipment, potential routes, and instrument
proficiency.
When does the weather forecast at your alternate need to be at least 800 feet and two miles
visibility so you can make a nonprecision approach? ✔️✔️At the estimated time of arrival
During an IFR flight, FAR 91.167 requires you to have enough fuel onboard to do what?
✔️✔️Complete the flight to the primary destination, fly from the primary airport to the filed
alternate airport, and fly an additional 45 minutes at normal cruising speed.
You are in cruise flight and smell electrical smoke. This could become a very dangerous
situation. You are unable to contact ATC on the currently assigned frequency. You feel that you
are in a distress situation and an accident is imminent. What should you do? ✔️✔️Begin your
call by repeating the word MAYDAY three times, use the emergency frequency 121.5, and
provide only as much information as necessary under the current conditions.
You declare that you are in distress and state the name of the station you are addressing.
Depending on your situation, what other information should you provide ATC to declare an
emergency? ✔️✔️Your aircraft identification and type, the nature of the distress or urgency,
whether you are flying VFR or IFR, and your intentions and request.
You are on an IFR flight and the number one nav receiver fails enroute. Which of the following
reports is a complete malfunction report? ✔️✔️Chicago Center, Cessna 1234A, number one
VHF nav receiver inop, request NDB approach.
,You have arrived near the destination airport and ATC has issued a holding clearance due to
high volume of traffic. At the EFC time, ATC extends the hold another 15 minutes. You evaluate
the fuel situation and recognize that you need priority handling. What actions should you take?
✔️✔️Declare a fuel emergency
You are on an IFR flight when you suspect your attitude indicator and gyroscopic heading
indicator have failed. You cross check the remaining instruments and verify the failure. You
decide to use the autopilot to help you fly the aircraft. What else should you do in this
situation? ✔️✔️Cover the failed instrument so you are not distracted by the incorrect
information it provides. Contact ATC and make an appropriate malfunction report.
You check your communications equipment and suspect that your transmitter is inoperative.
How do you alert ATC of the failure? ✔️✔️Attempt to reestablish communication by
contacting ATC on a previously assigned frequency or calling an FSS. Listen for ATC instructions
on any operational receiver.
You are flying in IFR conditions and have a two-way communications failure. What route must
you follow to comply with the FARs? ✔️✔️If you are being radar vectored, fly the direct route
from the point of radio failure to the fix, route, or airway specified in the vector clearance;
otherwise, fly the route assigned in the last ATC clearance received.
ATC has assigned you a cruise altitude of 10,000 feet, and the route of flight is on V494. You are
in IFR conditions when both COMM radios fail. What altitudes must you fly to comply with FAR
lost communication procedures? ✔️✔️Prior to VIKES intersection, begin a climb to 12,000
feet. You must cross VIKES at or above 11,000 feet.
, Refer to the chart. You are holding at JUPEX intersection as published at 2,500 feet. ATC has not
issued an EFC time. After you enter the hold, all COMM radios fail. When should you begin this
approach? ✔️✔️Depart JUPEX at the ETA on the flight plan and conduct the approach.
Refer to the chart. You are holding at the EHF VOR as published at 4,000 feet. ATC issues an EFC
time just prior to a complete COMM failure. When should you begin this approach?
✔️✔️Depart holding at EHF VOR at the EFC time, proceed to JUPEX, make the course reversal,
and conduct the approach.
You are approaching your destination airport when all of your nav radios fail. Fortunately, the
airport has radar approaches available. What do you need to consider before performing radar
approaches? ✔️✔️Radar approach procedures require a ground-based radar facility and a
functioning airborne radio transmitter and receiver. Radar approaches are only available at
airports for which civil radar instrument approach minimums are published.
Your navigation radios have failed, and you will be making an ASR approach at the destination
airport. What information can the controller provide during an airport surveillance radar (ASR)
approach? ✔️✔️Headings to align your airplane with the extended centerline of the landing
runway; information about when to start the descent to the MDA or, if appropriate, to an
intermediate stepdown fix and then to the MDA; and the location of the missed approach point
(MAP)
NOTAMS indicate the ILS is out of service at your destination airport. A PAR approach will be
used as a substitute. What information does the controller provide during precision approach
radar (PAR) approach? ✔️✔️Headings to fly to align your airplane with the extended
centerline of the landing runway; glide slope intercept 10 to 30 seconds before it occurs;
descent information to align an aircraft on a glidepath to the runway
