The Rules of the Game… In this LESSON we’ll cover the rules that apply to flying in the IFR system (well about 98% of the rules anyway). We’ve summed them up into the easiest to digest bits possible, but we do recommend taking some handwritten notes here to help you remember these come written test… Continue reading IFR FARs SC
Lesson Category: IFR
Holding Patterns SC
Hold On! Not Sooo Fast!!! When things get busy in the sky, or the weather gets bad up ahead and ATC needs you to pull over to the side of the road and park that thing for a minute or twenty-five minutes, they will issue you a “hold”. Since you can’t exactly find a parking… Continue reading Holding Patterns SC
How the System Works: NAS under IFR SC
So How Does the NAS Really Look? In this LESSON, we’ll show you how the National Airspace System is broken up into separate sections and sectors, and how they all work together to make one nice smooth system. The parts from the “ground up” are: Clearance Delivery (sometimes combined with Ground) Metering (who you call… Continue reading How the System Works: NAS under IFR SC
Nav Instruments: Siri, Go Direct the Airport SC
Electronic Navigation Since virtually all of your navigation under IFR will be done with some sort of electronics, it makes sense to review a few things you may already know and add a few more. Lesson Objective: Learn more about how radio waves work and how your GPS system works. We’ll review VOR usage and… Continue reading Nav Instruments: Siri, Go Direct the Airport SC
IFR Mind Games SC
Good Pilots Do Bad Things In this LESSON we’re going to talk about some of the tricks your mind plays on you that can make good pilots do bad things. Cirrus SR22 Case Study: Three Fatal Before departing on the instrument flight rules cross-country flight, the private pilot obtained a weather briefing that forecast moderate… Continue reading IFR Mind Games SC
IFR Flight Instruments: Looking Through the Glass SC
Old Meets New…. So you’ve probably heard the term “steam gauges” and “glass cockpit”. Well steam gauges don’t run on steam, they’re the little round dial instruments shown on the left. Glass Cockpit simply means computer screens instead of round dial instruments. It requires a bit more proficiency to fly “round dial” or “steam gauge”… Continue reading IFR Flight Instruments: Looking Through the Glass SC
Starting Your Instrument Rating Right SC
How to Navigate this Course This course is broken up into LESSONs and TOPICs. The video above explains how to progress through each by clicking on the LESSON, then clicking on the individual TOPICs, marking them complete once the timer expires, then completing the quiz at the end of each LESSON. After taking a Quiz… Continue reading Starting Your Instrument Rating Right SC
Lesson 9: Flying Blind and Performance Calculations Pr
When you can’t see where you’re going: Flying blind doesn’t sound so fun. Although many pilots do fly airplanes through clouds and zero visibility conditions on a daily basis, it requires a lot of training and practice to have the proper knowledge and skills to do so safely. Far too many pilots die each year… Continue reading Lesson 9: Flying Blind and Performance Calculations Pr
START HERE Sun N Fun 2018
To Get Started with the Course… Simply click on each “TOPIC” below, and mark it complete when you have finished that part of the course! It looks like this: Once you click MARK COMPLETE, it will automatically bring you to the next “TOPIC” End of Course Quiz… Once you have marked all the topics “complete”,… Continue reading START HERE Sun N Fun 2018
BONUS IFR Lesson!
EXTRA CREDIT! Check out these extra TOPICs to help you prepare for your checkride AND some of the Premium Courses here at FLY8MA you have access to with your membership! You can also take practice tests with the latest questions from the FAA test bank here.