Challenging Instrument Approaches
Flight Level Aviation’s full-motion
advanced avionics flight simulator has a Jeppesen database containing
all instrument approaches in the U.S. This allows for a number of
unique training scenarios, beginning with an introductory instrument
approach into a student’s home airport and culminating with a series
of challenging instrument approaches for the highly proficient
instrument pilot.
Richard has a collection of what he feels are the 30+ most challenging
or most educational instrument approaches in the U.S. These approaches
include the following:
- Missed approach to a backcourse in
high mountainous terrain
- Approaches with multiple primary
navaids
- “Rare” approaches including
LDA, LDA/DME, SDF
- Approaches with non-standard
initial altitudes
- Curved DME approach with no
straight-in segment
- Nonstandard GPS approaches
This set of challenging approaches is
certain to be both educational and fun for the proficient instrument
pilot – and for the highly proficient instrument pilot, we can throw
in some systems failure on the simulator as well!
