How would you answ this ATPw question?

[Amish RakeFight]

...one more thing.

The question/answer might make more sense if you think about how one flies (or should fly) an ILS.

PITCH for glideslope
and
POWER for airspeed

Therefore, if you lose a headwind your airspeed will drop and your ground speed will increase.



A) Less power - doesn't make sense to take power out when you've lost airpseed. In order to maintain the Vref speed you'll need to increasse power to make up for the loss of airpseed provided by the headwind.

B) CORRECT

C) Lower descent rate - if you lose your headwind your descent rate will increase due to a greater tailwind or less headwind, both will require an increased descent rate due to the increased gorundspeed which requires a greater descent rate.

 

[FlyinFife]

The only way I could make sense of these questions was if I thought of them along the lines of "headwind to no-wind, or headwind to tailwind" and relate it to airplane speed. Any situation with the headwind decreasing: airplane slowing down. Headwind increasing: airplane speeding up. I don't know if this will help you, but it was the only way I could wrap my brain around it.