This question came up in my nav exam today:
Whilst enroute you request clearence through a MATZ but don't receive any reply. Do you:
1. Divert to the left of the MATZ
2. Climb to 3000 feet over the MATZ
3. Descend to 1000 feet to be under the MATZ
4. Some answer that it obviously wasn't
I was confused. The good arimanship part of my brain was saying (1). You don't know what is going on, is there an emergency ? You have no idea what they may be dealing with so leave well alone, divert to the left.
The NAV part of me was saying (2). If you divert left then you are diverting off track and although their are ways to do this you'll arrive late and stand more chance of getting lost. May as well climb to 3000, fly over the MATZ and remain on track.
Anybody hazard a guess as to what the correct answer was ? As it was the nav exam I went with number 2. No doubt the answer was number 1.....