IR training prep tips

Rykymus

Rykymus

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I've had too many flights cancelled since I got my PPL 2 years ago. So, it's time. I've got about 200 hours since getting my PPL, 100 of it solo cross-country >50nm. (Longest being about 300nm) I always use flight following, know my avionics and my 430w, have taken the King IR ground school, but have not taken the written yet. I'm looking for suggestions on what else I can do to prepare prior to starting my actual instruction to improve my experience and allow me to get as much as possible from my time with a CFII.

Any and all tips would be appreciated.
 
Fly with precision. Practice ded reckoning, hold altitude, airspeed, and heading precisely. See how close you get to your target. You may be surprised at how good it can be.
 
If you know the airplane you'll be training in, go ahead and make up a chart of the Six Configurations of Instrument Flight. And practice until you can make it work:

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Radio work...if you are not 100% comfortable yet on the radio, start using Flight Following on EVERY flight and go fly in and out of some busy C and D airports.

Start understanding and digesting clearances on the radio via LiveATC.net

Get a good Garmin simulator...how you use it for IFR is much more involved than VFR ops.
 
Rykymus said:
... I'm looking for suggestions on what else I can do to prepare prior to starting my actual instruction to improve my experience and allow me to get as much as possible from my time with a CFII.

Any and all tips would be appreciated.
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Save up, study for and pass the written. And, then fly as often as you can; 2 or three hops a week. Find a CFII that uses a syllabus and clearly defines each lesson's objectives.
 
write-stuff said:
If you know the airplane you'll be training in, go ahead and make up a chart of the Six Configurations of Instrument Flight. And practice until you can make it work:

6-configs.jpg
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This is really good advice.
 
All of the above. Which all require a good scan to accomplish. You can't be scanning all the instruments, all the time. Read up on primary and secondary instruments for particular phases of flight
 
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