WIFA CFI Meeting

March 6 2024

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You Can Find This On My Site

• Flymall.org
• Click on Kraemer Aviation
• Click on Lesson Plans
• Click on Flight Instructor
• Look for WIFA logo

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Position Reports

• To let everyone know where you are – even a student pilot on their first solo should be able to tell where you are.

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We announced we were 7 southwest of the VOR

for the VOR 34 approach

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Then we heard another aircraft announce they were holding

at the VOR. I told the applicant to take off the

hood to help me find the traffic.

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On their second position report, I was able to get the tail number.

They were actually at the red x relative to my position.

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As we watched them, they kept announcing that they were holding at the VOR while

they were at the blue Xs shown here. The person on the checkride suggested that we

contact ATC and tell them that we may have a pilot that is  incapacitated.

I Often Hear This As Well

• I am 6 miles on the VOR approach. This tells me nothing. Are you 6 miles from the VOR? Are you on a 6 mile final? Where are you?

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Position Reports Are Often Too Long

• One private pilot applicant was saying this “ Carroll County traffic, this is N94WA we are 9 miles southwest at 3000 feet. We will over fly the airport at 3000 feet and make a right teardrop to enter a left downwind for runway 16”.

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• This person announced this about every 2 miles.

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• This same person, when I did his engine failure at DMW, the first thing he did was to announce on the radio where he was. He did not fly the plane first. He said that he is required to “DECLARE” what he is doing BEFORE he does it.

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Traffic Pattern

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C68LlpdUk30

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360s In The Pattern

• Why???

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• AIM 4-3-5 ... Unexpected Maneuvers in the Airport Traffic Pattern
• Except when requested by the controller or in emergency situations, a 360 degree turn should never be executed in the traffic pattern

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360s In The Pattern

• FAR 91.126 STATES (b) Direction of turns. When approaching to land at an airport without an operating control tower in Class G airspace—��(1) Each pilot of an airplane must make all turns of that airplane to the left unless the airport displays approved light signals or visual markings indicating that turns should be made to the right, in which case the pilot must make all turns to the right; 

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360s In The Pattern

• I was overflying DMW one day, there was only one plane in the pattern
• This was a WIFA plane
• I heard the pilot announce that they were doing a 360 in the pattern
• There was no one else in the pattern

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Common Errors For Traffic Patterns

• Failure to comply with traffic pattern instructions, procedures, and rules�Improper correction for wind drift on any leg of the pattern�Flying the downwind leg too close or too far from the airport�Inadequate spacing from other traffic�Poor altitude or airspeed control�Improper radio calls�Executing a 360° turn in the traffic pattern for spacing�Not configuring the aircraft appropriately for landing�Failure to use or improper use of the appropriate checklist

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Common Errors Is From This Website

• https://mycfibook.com/book-page/traffic-patterns/

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360s In The Pattern

• I have personally seen WIFA planes do a 360 on final – this was a student pilot on a solo.
• This person was about 500 AGL

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360s In The Pattern

• Some DPEs will fail an applicant if they do a 360 in the pattern without declaring an emergency

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• I will not do this. I will not let someone do a 360 in the pattern.

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Instrument Rating Notes

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Approaches for Instrument Rating

• Go to my site

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• Click on Kraemer Aviation

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• Click on Lesson Plans (I am in the process of adding the ACS / PTS codes to these, so they will be searchable via those codes

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• Click on Instrument

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Instrument Approaches

• Per Harry's January 2024 DPE Recurrent Course, you need to do one precision and two non precision on the instrument checkride. The precision approach can be an ILS or a LPV if the LPV has a decision altitude of 300 feet or less. For the non precision, they each need to be a different nav aid. For the non precision you cannot do two different GPS approaches. You can use GPS LPV as the precision and a non precision approach on the same checkride. You can do an ILS and a LOC at the same runway and these will count as the precision and non precision approach.��Per the Jan 2024 DPE Recurrent Class, the approaches on the dual long IFR cross country can all be GPS as long as they have different minimums.

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Private Pilot Applicants

• Be sure that all solo time is properly endorsed.  Even if you did not authorize them for solo and you are just recommending them for the checkride.

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Impossible turn 

• Some CFIs at WIFA teach it (tell their students to say it in their takeoff briefing) however they are afraid or not comfortable showing how to do it.

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• Visit the Lesson Plan section of my site for more info on this maneuver

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Learn And Teach Workload Management Properly 

• If you miss altimeter setting when coming back in SFRA - no need to ask - you will hear it at least 10 or 12 more times before you get to GAI.

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IACRA

• Sign IACRA the day before the checkride.

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Checklist

• Checklist should follow the POH 
• Who knows the aircraft better? WIFA or the manufacturer?

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• Checklist should follow what is in the POH!

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• Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO 17006) 

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Checklist

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Visit my site Flymall.org

Click on Forum

Click on WIFA

Click on WIFA Checklist – all of these are correct

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SFRA

• When leaving, you SHOULD NOT say looking for squawk
• When departing GAI, you SHOULD SAY SFRA to Wooly or SFRA on file to Wooly
• When returning, DO NOT SAY North of Wooly looking for squawk

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• When returning, you should say SFRA on file to KGAI
• And KGAI is Kilo, Golf, Alpha, India – NOT KGAI as a lot of you say

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