Full-Length IFR Scenario Flights
Key practices, numbers, and decision habits for running complete gate-to-gate IFR scenario flights.
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Questions Covered in This Set
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What is the real goal of full-length scenario flights?
Decision throughput under load — managing several overlapping problems, not perfect needle work.
What three rules make a scenario honest?
(1) No pausing except real sim malfunctions, (2) speak every clearance aloud and write it down, (3) debrief within ten minutes of shutdown.
How should you set up a scenario the night before?
Pick a real date and archived weather sequence (METARs/TAFs/Skew-T), file a real route, and compute real fuel numbers.
What is the 'actual product' of this lesson?
A kneeboard log of every decision point and what you chose.
What should you do if a full-route amendment arrives before taxi?
Copy it, verify fuel still works, re-brief the DP before releasing brakes — never accept a clearance you haven't briefed.
Cross a fix 3,000 ft above, 12 nm to go at 130 kt groundspeed — required climb rate?
About 5.5 minutes available, so roughly 550 fpm.
First action when the destination goes below minimums 20 minutes out?
Aviate/navigate first: request a hold or vectors to buy time before touching the iPad.
How should decision fuel be expressed?
Total remaining minus the 45-minute reserve, converted to minutes rather than gallons.
How do you choose a diversion airport?
Pick margin, not proximity — a field 45 nm upwind with 2,000 broken and an ILS beats a nearby field with the same fog.
What phrases should already be in your vocabulary on low-fuel diversions?
'Minimum fuel' and, if needed, 'emergency fuel.'
