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250 nm cross country IFR flight

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I did my 250nm cross country IFR flight with 3 different approaches to qualify for the instrument checkride.  It was actually around 500 miles, was filed by my CFII, and had an ILS, LNAV, and LNAV/VNAV approaches.  I did it with a CFII that had designed the flight to make sure it qualified.  My new instructor said it doesn't qualify as the LNAV and LNAV/VNAV are not different approaches.  Is he right, or is the flight acceptable?  I'm not sure who my DPE will be, otherwise I would ask him or her directly.  Is there anywhere that breaks down the three types of different acceptable approaches?  Thank you!

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  1. Mark Kolber on May 16, 2022

    Unfortunately, as of today, we don’t know. As a result of two FAA Chief Counsel letters some years ago, different navigation *systems* was a requirement. GPS is GPS regardless of minimums. Those interpretations were rescinded a month or two ago with the Chief Counsel punting to Flight Standards to define what “different types of approaches” means. There is an unpublished and uncirculated draft guidance pending on that question. One can only hope that at least an approach with regulatory vertical guidance will be considered to be different than one without but, until the guidance is published, we are all left guessing.

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