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FAA Instrument Flight Instructor (FII) practice questions

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  1. 101.A pilot performs a VOR receiver accuracy check using a VOT (VOR Test Signal) prior to an IFR flight. What is the maximum permissible bearing error under 14 CFR 91.171?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  2. 102.During a debrief, a CFII notices that a student who made a serious altitude-deviation error early in the lesson continued to fixate on that mistake throughout the flight, even after correcting it. Which law of learning best explains why an instructor should immediately correct a student's first attempt at a new instrument procedure?Instructional Techniques
  3. 103.A pilot performs a VOR receiver accuracy check using a VOT signal at the airport. After centering the CDI, the OBS reads 358° and the TO/FROM indicator displays 'FROM.' Is this receiver within the tolerance allowed by 14 CFR 91.171?Instruments and Systems
  4. 104.A pilot wants to conduct a Category II ILS approach with a decision height as low as 100 feet and RVR as low as 1,200. What is required beyond a standard instrument rating and a Part 91 aircraft equipped for a standard ILS?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  5. 105.ATC is providing radar vectors to the final approach course for an aircraft conducting an ILS approach in IMC. Per standard controller procedures, what is the maximum intercept angle ATC should normally use when vectoring the aircraft onto the final approach course?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  6. 106.A pilot's instrument currency lapsed 8 months ago (beyond the 6-month grace period). Which of the following actions satisfies the requirement to regain instrument currency under 14 CFR 61.57(d)?Instrument Regulations
  7. 107.A pilot planning a coastal flight is briefed that warm, moist air is expected to move over the cold coastal waters overnight. What type of fog should the pilot expect to encounter?Weather
  8. 108.During an ILS approach at night, the pilot reaches decision altitude with only the approach light system in sight; the runway environment itself is not visible. Per 14 CFR 91.175, below what height may the pilot NOT continue descent using the approach lights alone unless red terminating bars or red side-row bars are also distinctly visible?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  9. 109.A CFII is briefing a student on ILS glide slope characteristics prior to an approach. The instructor correctly explains that full-scale deflection of the glide slope needle represents approximatelyInstruments and Systems
  10. 110.During a rapid acceleration on the takeoff roll in a conventional vacuum-driven attitude indicator, the instrument will typically display which erroneous indication, even though the aircraft is actually still on the ground and level?Instruments and Systems
  11. 111.An aircraft is established on the 270° radial of a VOR, tracking outbound on a heading of 270° with the OBS set to 270°. What should the TO/FROM indicator display?Instruments and Systems
  12. 112.A pilot reviewing a 500-millibar constant pressure chart before a high-altitude flight notices height contour lines that are very closely spaced over the route. What should the pilot conclude about conditions at that altitude?Weather
  13. 113.During a weather briefing, a pilot learns that a fast-moving cold front is overtaking a slower warm front ahead of it along the route of flight. This process forms which type of front, and what weather should the pilot expect near the point of occlusion?Weather
  14. 114.A pilot is completing preflight planning for an IFR flight to a towered airport that has a published instrument approach. According to 14 CFR 91.103, which of the following must be part of the pilot's required preflight action?Instrument Regulations
  15. 115.During preflight, a pilot notes that the aircraft's vacuum pump has failed. In an aircraft with a conventional vacuum-driven gyro system and electric turn coordinator, which flight instruments will become unreliable?Instruments and Systems
  16. 116.A CFII is briefing a student before a cross-country instrument training flight and reminds the student to consider fatigue level, recency of experience, weather along the route, and the pressure to arrive on time for a family event. This briefing directly applies which risk-management framework?Instructional Techniques
  17. 117.A CFII has already given 7 hours of flight instruction today. A client calls requesting an additional 2-hour instrument lesson before midnight. According to 14 CFR 61.195(b), may the CFII conduct this lesson?Instrument Regulations
  18. 118.A pilot is flying IFR at 8,000 feet MSL, below FL180. According to 14 CFR 91.121, which altimeter setting must the pilot use?Instrument Regulations
  19. 119.A pilot in VMC requests a contact approach to a towered airport that has a published instrument approach procedure. Which of the following is a requirement that distinguishes a contact approach from a visual approach?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  20. 120.A pilot abruptly pulls back on the yoke to begin a climb. Immediately afterward, the vertical speed indicator (VSI) briefly shows a slight descent before settling into an accurate climb indication a few seconds later. What causes this brief erroneous indication?Instruments and Systems
  21. 121.On final approach in gusty conditions, a pilot notices an increasing headwind followed by a sudden shift to a strong tailwind accompanied by a significant increase in sink rate. This is a classic indication of which hazardous phenomenon?Weather
  22. 122.A non-instrument-rated private pilot requests a special VFR clearance to depart a Class D surface area at 2200 local time, with reported ground visibility of 2 statute miles. May ATC issue this clearance?Instrument Regulations
  23. 123.A CFII's flight instructor certificate is due to expire this month. Which of the following actions satisfies the renewal requirement under 14 CFR 61.197?Instrument Regulations
  24. 124.A TAF for the destination includes the group 'PROB30 1618 1SM TSRA.' How should a CFII explain the operational significance of this group to an instrument student?Weather
  25. 125.An IFR flight loses two-way radio communications while in IMC. At the time of failure, the pilot was being radar vectored off the filed airway, and ATC had not yet issued any further routing clearance beyond the vector. According to 91.185(c)(1), which route should the pilot fly?Instrument Regulations
  26. 126.A pilot departs an airport where the altimeter setting is 30.42 and flies toward a destination reporting 29.85 without ever resetting the altimeter. If the pilot maintains a constant indicated altitude, the aircraft's true altitude will beInstruments and Systems
  27. 127.A pilot's aircraft experiences a glideslope receiver failure while inbound to an airport with both ASR and PAR radar approaches available. The pilot requests a radar approach that provides recommended altitudes at each mile on final but no vertical guidance display. Which approach should the pilot request?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  28. 128.A pilot is planning a circling approach. The aircraft's stall speed in the landing configuration (Vso) at maximum certificated landing weight is 100 knots. Using the standard 1.3 x Vso method, what circling approach category applies to this aircraft?Instrument Regulations
  29. 129.An approach chart depicts a hold-in-lieu-of-procedure-turn at the IAF, but no 'NoPT' notation is charted for the arrival route being flown. Under which of the following conditions may ATC omit the course reversal and clear the aircraft to proceed straight through the IAF to the final approach course?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  30. 130.While flying a nonprecision approach in IMC, a pilot reaches the MDA and cannot identify any of the visual references required by 91.175(c)(3) for the runway environment. According to 14 CFR 91.175(e), what action is the pilot required to take?Instrument Regulations
  31. 131.During preflight for an IFR flight in IMC, a pilot notices the aircraft's panel-mounted clock is inoperative and there is no other installed timepiece. The pilot has a personal wristwatch displaying hours, minutes, and seconds. Under 14 CFR 91.205(d), may the flight legally depart IFR?Instrument Regulations
  32. 132.An applicant for an instrument-airplane rating logs a cross-country flight under IFR that covers a total distance of 260 nautical miles along airways or ATC-approved routing. During the flight, the applicant flies a VOR approach, an ILS approach, and an RNAV (GPS) approach at three different airports. Does this flight satisfy the cross-country requirement of 61.65(d)(2)?Instrument Regulations
  33. 133.A TAF for the destination airport includes the group: 'TEMPO 1416 3SM -RA BR.' How should a CFII explain this group to an instrument student?Weather
  34. 134.A CFII explains to an instrument student the primary advantage of a Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI) over a separate heading indicator and VOR/localizer CDI. Which statement best describes this advantage?Instruments and Systems
  35. 135.While teaching Single-Pilot Resource Management (SRM), a CFII wants the student to practice prioritizing which instrument tasks to perform first during a busy non-precision approach with a late runway change. This exercise is primarily developing which SRM skill?Instructional Techniques
  36. 136.During an emergency descent in IMC, a pilot references the Minimum Safe Altitude (MSA) circle depicted on the approach chart. What does this altitude provide?Instrument Regulations
  37. 137.While conducting a GPS-based instrument approach in actual instrument conditions, the receiver annunciates a loss of RAIM prior to the final approach fix. The most appropriate action is toInstruments and Systems
  38. 138.A pilot applicant passes the FAA instrument-airplane knowledge test in March 2024. Per 14 CFR 61.39(a)(2), by what date must the applicant complete the associated practical test using that knowledge test result?Instrument Regulations
  39. 139.A pilot flying in IMC encounters clouds containing large supercooled water droplets at an OAT of -8°C. Which type of structural icing is most likely to form on the airframe?Weather
  40. 140.A CFII is explaining WAAS-based approach types to an instrument student. Which statement correctly distinguishes an LPV approach from an LNAV approach?Instruments and Systems
  41. 141.A Part 91 pilot plans an IFR flight at FL270 in an airplane equipped with a single VOR receiver but no DME or RNAV system. Under 14 CFR 91.205(e), what must be added to the aircraft before this flight may be conducted?Instrument Regulations
  42. 142.During the afternoon at a coastal airport, a pilot notices the surface wind consistently blowing from the ocean toward the land. What is the most likely cause of this wind pattern?Weather
  43. 143.An airport reports the touchdown RVR for the active runway as 2400. A pilot's aircraft is not equipped to display RVR readouts and the takeoff minimum requires at least 1/2 statute mile visibility. Using the standard RVR-to-visibility conversion table, what visibility value corresponds to RVR 2400?Instrument Regulations
  44. 144.A pilot's aircraft is squawking Mode C and reports an altitude of 5,500 feet to ATC, even though the pilot's altimeter, set to the current local altimeter setting of 30.10, reads 5,700 feet. What is the most likely explanation for this discrepancy?Instruments and Systems
  45. 145.A Part 91 pilot plans an IFR departure from an airport with published nonstandard takeoff minimums of 300-1, but the current visibility is only 1/2 statute mile. Is the pilot legally prohibited from departing under IFR?Instrument Regulations
  46. 146.While flying a nonprecision approach in IMC, a CFII asks a client what conditions must exist before descending below the MDA to land straight-in, per 91.175(c). Which of the following is one of the required conditions?Instrument Regulations
  47. 147.A pilot is flying an RNAV (GPS) approach with LNAV minimums and is on the final approach segment, 2 NM from the runway threshold. Approximately what does full-scale CDI deflection represent at this point, and how does it compare to a VOR's sensitivity at the same distance?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  48. 148.A pilot is planning an IFR flight in an airplane not certificated for flight into known icing conditions, and the forecast calls for visible moisture with temperatures near freezing along the entire route. Under 14 CFR 91.9, what is the appropriate course of action?Instrument Regulations
  49. 149.A pilot is cleared to hold at a fix at 9,000 feet MSL with no additional restrictions issued by ATC. According to the AIM, what is the maximum holding airspeed authorized?IFR Procedures and Approaches
  50. 150.A pilot receives the clearance: 'Cessna 123AB, turn left heading 090, vectors to final, cleared ILS runway 27 approach.' The published approach depicts a procedure turn for course reversal at the IAF. Is the pilot required to fly the procedure turn?Instrument Regulations