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During the cross-country walk-through, the examiner says the destination weather is deteriorating. What is the expected response?
Choices
✓ Describe how you would adapt the plan, such as diverting to an alternatecorrect
The examiner injects changes to test in-flight adaptation and diversion decisions.
Insist on continuing exactly as planned regardless of weather
Rigidly continuing into worsening weather is poor judgment.
End the oral because the scenario changed
Adapting to the change is the point of the exercise.
Ignore the change since it is hypothetical
The applicant is expected to reason through the injected change.
Why
The examiner injects a change like deteriorating weather to see how the applicant adapts the plan, including diversion to an alternate.
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