Let’s be honest—sometimes you come upon scenarios that you didn’t go over in your ground school, flight training, or check ride. If you’re an instructor, it may come in the form of an inquisitive student asking if it’s possible to sidestep a particular procedure and still be “legal.”
For instance, a common one that comes up early in instrument training or even getting recurrent is whether you have to fly all of your approaches to the DA or MDA or if you could break them off after crossing the final approach fix and still have them count. You’ll never see this addressed in the FARs or AIM, but the question is valid and makes you pause for a second.
