Why students fail IFR checkrides (GPS)

After nearly 1 full year of working as a CFI/CFII I am starting to see trends in common errors students make that eventually leads to checkride failure. In this series, I will be focusing on three major reasons that students fail IFR checkrides--1. GPS, 2. Alternate planning , and 3. Instrument Approach Procedures.

During a practical test, a Designated Practical Examiner is evaluating your Application and Correlation levels of learning (as described in the beginning of this video). This means that the test will NOT entail multiple choice, true/ false, or any other form of question that requires you to "regurgitate" information. The test will be based around scenarios and force you to think critically about what action you would take in certain scenarios based off of your understanding of the material. This video sets out to debunk some common myths about the use of GPS, RAIM, and WAAS in the initial flight training environment.

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[shelbymcdaniel]

Thank you so much ! I have my end of course instrument stage check and check ride coming up so this was extra helpful ! 😊

[TheFSXFlyBoy]

Preparing for my IFR checkride and I found this video incredibly valuable, especially to clear it up for those of us who use G1000 with WAAS! Looking forward to parts 2 & 3!

[namizobueno-htim]

This is a great video. Thank you. LPV approaches are not precision approaches. That question in a DPE exam could fail you

[AlyssaM_InfoSec]

Great video, thank you. Also your screen shot of the minimums from the approach plate at 11:42 awakened me to another situation I was unaware of. There are two LPV DAs specified, one at 200 AGL and one at 300 AGL. Living in the flat Midwest I had never seen that before and didn't know why. Found the answer that it has to do with the missed approach requiring more than 200 ft/NM climb if you go to the lower DA. So thank you for that unintentional learning moment as well.

[msnaturee]

One of the most useful videos I have found on this topic!

[cm]

Great video man, really cleared up a few things for me.

[basel]

under rated video my end of course next week thanks man

[cristianmeza]

Thank you for this lesson, you help me a lot

[forrestmunden]

I’m kind of confused because everyone tells me that an LPV approach is not a precision approach, but yet in this video, you say that it is? Can you clarify please? Great video.

[markbright]

Isn’t WAAS sensitivity enroute 2 miles and not 3?

[lithominium]

im only 2 minutes in, and my poor audio engineer ears are hurting from hearing the room noise coming back into the microphone. a simple eq out of that problematic frequency would do wonders!

so far the content of the video far outweighs the small problem of the audio, haha

[aviatrixantics]

Too bad you bailed on the rest of the series.

[ronnyziesmer]

With all due respect, you have WAAS wrong.