304 When to Choose an IAF versus Vectors when Getting Vectors to Final + GA News

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🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Max talks about when to choose an IAF versus Vectors when Getting Vectors to Final. Like most things in aviation, the answer is “It Depends.” In older GPSs, choosing Vectors drops some waypoints, which is fine over flat terrain, but which can be dangerous when vectored over mountainous terrain. This is why CFIs often encouraged pilots to always load an approach with an IAF and not vectors, even when being vectored for an approach. Newer GPSs have solved this problem, and in most cases, it’s fine to load an approach with vectors.

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0:00.0	Are you an instrument pilot or have you thought about getting an instrument rating someday?
0:06.0	Are you sometimes confused about whether to load an approach with vectors or to load it with
0:10.0	an IAF?
0:11.0	And have you ever been told that you should always load an approach with an IAF even if you're
0:16.0	receiving vectors to final?
0:18.0	It turns out that's not always the best advice and if you stick around, I'll tell you why.
0:22.5	Hello, my name is Max Ruskot.
0:23.9	I've been flying for 50 years.
0:25.3	I'm the author of several books and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the year.
0:29.6	And my mission is to help you become the safest possible pilot.
0:33.7	And if you're new to this show, take a moment right now. It's not either the subscribed key or if you're using the Apple podcast app,
0:40.2	the follow key, so that next week's episode is downloaded for free.
0:44.3	And if you didn't hear last week's episode in which I talked about the fatal crash of a
0:48.3	CirrusSR 22T in Indiana and why the Caps parachute matters, you may want to check it out at Aviation
0:54.9	News Talk.com slash 303. Coming up in the news, the week of November 27, 2023, accidents are up,
1:02.4	but the accident rate is down. An airline employee is charged with carrying a gun through a TSA
1:07.7	checkpoint, and a drone pilot was sentenced and will tell you what he did.
1:12.1	All this and more, and the news starts now.
1:17.4	From generalaviation news.com, accidents up in 2021, but an increase in flight hours creates a downward trend.
1:25.8	A new report from AOPA's Air Safety Institute shows that the number of GA accidents
1:30.6	rose in 2021, but an increase in flight hours helped mitigate increases in accidents.
1:36.5	Quote, the overall total and fatal accident rates for 2021 continued trending downward,
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