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LPV and LNAV/VNAV Approaches on the Instrument and CFII Checkrides Yes, you can use a suitable Approach with Vertical Guidance (APV) approach in place of another precision approach, like an ILS, on your checkride, if the Decision Altitude is less than 300’ AGL. That means the RNAV/GPS approach to your local airfield can count as precision for the purposes of the checkride. From the Instrument Rating ACS: A localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) approach with a decision altitude (DA) greater than 300 feet height above terrain (HAT) may be used as a nonprecision approach; however, due to the precision of its glidepath and localizer-like lateral navigation characteristics, an LPV can be used to demonstrate precision approach proficiency (AOA VI Task B) if the DA is equal to or less than 300 feet HAT....

I use X-Plane 12 for procedure proficiency in instrument training. It’s much easier to set up scenarios and quickly modify the environment to increase proficiency. I’ve always been bothered, though, by the warning in the GNS430 and G1000 that the navigation data was out of date. This is the real warning that we get in the airplane when the nav data is out of date, but there’s not a database subscription service that I can order through Garmin to keep the virtual avionics current....