I thought I would share these tidbits that came up during my oral discussion from my CFII checkride last Friday.
1) Marker beacons transmit on a freq of 75 megahertz.
2) FAR Part 95 covers MEA, MOCA, etc. FAR Part 97 covers an instrument approach.
3) If you lose all instruments and need to descend through a cloud layer, use the magnetic compass on a southerly heading. On the southerly heading, it will be real sensitive to direction change and you should be able to maintain that southerly heading as you descend.
4) if you lose radio comm, be sure to turn up the volume on all nav equipment in case ATC tries to contact you there instead.
5) The descent rate to maintain the standard 3 degree glideslope can be approximated with the following: ( Ground Speed / 2 ) X 10
6) The VSI is the best instrument to monitor when holding a GS descent as it will tell you the trend immediately, that is... if your descent rate changes, it will show this deviation before your GS needle does.
1) Marker beacons transmit on a freq of 75 megahertz.
2) FAR Part 95 covers MEA, MOCA, etc. FAR Part 97 covers an instrument approach.
3) If you lose all instruments and need to descend through a cloud layer, use the magnetic compass on a southerly heading. On the southerly heading, it will be real sensitive to direction change and you should be able to maintain that southerly heading as you descend.
4) if you lose radio comm, be sure to turn up the volume on all nav equipment in case ATC tries to contact you there instead.
5) The descent rate to maintain the standard 3 degree glideslope can be approximated with the following: ( Ground Speed / 2 ) X 10
6) The VSI is the best instrument to monitor when holding a GS descent as it will tell you the trend immediately, that is... if your descent rate changes, it will show this deviation before your GS needle does.