Good questions to ask before the IFR checkride

[minitour]

My favorite two-parter...

You lose comms in solid IMC with IMC the whole way...what do you do?
*appropriate answer*

So you start down on the ILS at the appropriate time and break out at 900' AGL. As you scan, you see the runway straight ahead and a red light coming from the Tower...what do you do?

 

[Doc Holiday]

The DP/SID stuff in the AIM. How high to cross end of runway, how high to climb before turning, assumed climb gradient, etc.

You are doing an instrument approach into a Class E surface area reporting 900' and 2sm. Your buddy is holding at the FAF waiting for you to cancel so he can do the approach. You want to save him some time, can you cancel IFR as soon as you get the airport in sight?

You are inbound to a VOR which is the FAF for the approach. ATC gives you an altitude to maintain until the VOR and clears you for the approach. You happen to already be established on the inbound course. Do you have to perform a procedure turn? (NoPT is not anywhere on the approach plate).

 

[aperson]

- Where is the Localizer located?
- How wide is the Localizer?
- Can you ever get a FROM indication on the LOC?
- How many glide slopes?
- How many altimeters in the airplane?
- What is known Icing?