SCENARIO STUDY
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✈ Normal Operations
🔥 Engine Failures & Fire
🚨 Emergency Procedures
📡 Instrument Approaches
⚙ System Abnormals
👥 CRM Scenarios
RNAV (GPS) LPV Approach
🛫 Scenario Setup
KCOS RNAV (GPS) RWY 35R. LPV minimums: DA 6,954 ft (303 ft HAT), vis 3/4sm. WAAS available. FMS loaded and verified.
💥 Failure Injection
LPV approach – SBAS lateral and vertical guidance available.
📋 Required Actions (Sequence)
- Verify WAAS availability – check GPS status page
- Brief: LPV DA, missed approach procedure, field elevation
- Load and activate approach in FMS – verify correct airport and runway
- Configure before FAF – gear, flaps, checklist
- Monitor LNAV/VNAV guidance – treat as ILS for standards
- At DA: visual or go-around – same standard as ILS DH
✅ Evaluation Points
- WAAS status verified before approach
- LPV treated as precision approach (DA, not MDA)
- CDI within ±½ dot lateral and vertical
- DA decision immediate
❌ Common Errors (UNSAT)
- Not verifying WAAS availability
- Flying LPV to MDA instead of DA (non-precision technique on precision approach)
- Late activation of approach in FMS
🎓 What the Instructor / Examiner Watches For
TIMING STANDARDS
- Landing config: before FAF
- Stabilized by 1,000 ft IMC / 500 ft VMC
- DH/MDA decision: immediate
AUTOMATIC UNSATISFACTORY
- Full scale CDI deflection uncorrected
- Below DH/MDA without visual
- Unstabilized below gate – no go-around