Topic Category: IFR

From the Ground Up

ATIS So let’s take a look at this as if we are departing a Class C or D airport. The first thing we’ll do is get the ATIS (which is recorded every hour, or as needed by the Ground Controller) Once we have the ATIS, then we’ll go ahead and get our Clearance from Clearance… Continue reading From the Ground Up

IFR Weather Briefings

Brief Me up Scotty! Welcome to 2018, there are many ways now to get a weather briefing! You may remember calling into Flight Service as a private pilot student if you had a good CFI that made you do that at least once.  There’s a good chance though you do not give them a call… Continue reading IFR Weather Briefings

Arrival Procedures

Aim for the STARs! Well first, what is a STAR?  A STAR is a Standard Arrival Procedure.  Much like a SID, it gives you a standard way to approach an airport, helps streamline traffic flow for ATC, and gives you terrain clearance! How do we use this? Well this is something you could file as… Continue reading Arrival Procedures

TEC Routes

Tower En Route Control So say you want to do a quick IFR flight from one airport in a “terminal” environment to another in a “terminal” environment (basically two airports close together covered by an approach controller).  This is when you could request to use TEC, or tower en route control.  i.e. Flying from KSRQ… Continue reading TEC Routes

Filing and Retrieving your Flight Plan

Flight Plan on File Check out the 3 videos below of: Filing a Flight Plan Retrieving Your Clearance Be Released for Departure (at a non-towered airport)     Weather and Clearance Sticky Note Cards https://shop.fly8ma.com/product/sticky-note-atis-cards/

IFR SRM

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Control and Performance Method

Another way to cut the cake… So another approach besides the Primary and Supporting Method is Performance and Control.  Let me sum this up in the simplest terms possible. Performance instruments tell you how the airplane is performing, Control Instruments are what you use to control the aircraft and affect the Performance Instruments. Another way… Continue reading Control and Performance Method