This handbook will enable examiners and trainers to become familiar with
requesting an emergency situation from a pilot during ATC exams which is
a mandatory task for all controller exams.
The content written here is only for guidance.
The main reference for examiner to evaluate an exam is the Marking
Standards available for each rating.
This document is written only to be read by IVAO active examiners and
trainers. Therefore the content must be dealt with as confidential and
shall not be shared with non-Training Staff members.
== Requesting an emergency situation ==
The IVAO HQ Training Department recommends the following methodology to
request an emergency situation during a controller exam:
It is very important to choose the right pilot when requesting an
emergency situation.
By order of preference, try first to choose someone you know for his
pilot skills and his ability to perform an emergency situation.
Then, if you do not find anybody capable of performing the emergency,
try to look for a member of the Training Department, including HQ Pilot
(identified through RMK/HQ PILOT in FPL case 18).
Finally, if no Training or HQ Pilot member is present, or you did not
request the group to fly to the exam, pick a pilot, preferably highly
rated.
Bear in mind that a member can refuse to perform an emergency scenario.
Following the recent feedback from IVAO examiners requesting to produce
such handbook, it was also found that some examiners/trainers do not
perform the emergency scenario in a timely manner.
As per Marking Standards, the emergency situation should be assessed in
regard to:
It serves absolutely no purpose to trigger an emergency situation with
only one traffic on frequency and no traffic nearby.
Therefore, we recommend you the following strategy when considering
running an emergency situation:
*Make sure you had time to evaluate the management of your examinee
during a normal period
== What should you focus onto during an emergency situation? ==
As general guidance, we recommend based on the Marking Standards the
following:
As general guidance, we recommend based on the Marking Standards the
following:
As general guidance, we recommend based on the Marking Standards the
following:
== Examples of emergency situations ==
These various scenarios are given as examples. They do NOT
constitute any kind of references.
Examiners are perfectly free to set up their own scenarios.
Keep in mind that you will have to explain the scenarios to the pilot.
Depending on the pilot's skills, it may be wiser to keep the scenario
plain and simple.
As general guidance, we can suggest the following scenario:
When an IFR traffic is established on final, you can consider for
example to request a VFR traffic in the circuit to declare a MAYDAY.
This requires the examinee to vacate his/her runway, to give way to the
VFR traffic, and command a go-around to the IFR traffic.
As general guidance, we can suggest the following scenario:
When sequencing several traffic, ask the chosen pilot to declare the
MAYDAY when the he is more or less in the middle of the sequence
(downwind for example, abeam the airfield).
This requires the examinee to reorganize the sequence to prioritize the
distress traffic.
As general guidance, we can suggest the following scenario:
When an aircraft in upper levels is about to cross a traffic in lower
levels, you may request an emergency descent from the upper cruising
traffic.
This enables to check the ability of the examinee to take into account a
traffic crossing multiples levels very rapidly while being only able to
move the traffic not being in distress.
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