Supplies for IFR Test

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My wife is taking her IFR written tomorrow.

In the on-line King course, it was said she needs to take a magnifying glass and a plotter or a straight edge. Does she really need either of those? If so, would a 6" straight edge be long enough?
 
I'm not sure why she'd need either of those. I didn't when I took the test three months ago.

All the questions I saw (practice or actual test) that dealt with routes on charts had to do with Victor airways, so there was no need to draw a line with a straight edge.
 
I've heard that you need a landing calculator now...
 
Only thing I took in was a notepad. On page one I had all of the notes and cheat sheet remarks that I thought I could use. Before I went in for the written, I reviewed the page of notes for a few minutes in the car.

Then ripped that page off and went in with a blank note pad.

As soon as the test started...first thing I did was write down all the notes that I could remember and tools I could use to jog my memory....then started the test.

Did that for both my PPL and IFR and it worked well for me.
 
All you need is to have studied Sheppard air and you are set. Written isn't too difficult at all.
 
I think when I took my IR written all I brought was my E6B and a calculator
 
The knowledge to pass the written.Its all done on a computer know,you may want to bring a pencil and scratch pad.
 
Shawn said:
Only thing I took in was a notepad. On page one I had all of the notes and cheat sheet remarks that I thought I could use. Before I went in for the written, I reviewed the page of notes for a few minutes in the car.

Then ripped that page off and went in with a blank note pad.

As soon as the test started...first thing I did was write down all the notes that I could remember and tools I could use to jog my memory....then started the test.

Did that for both my PPL and IFR and it worked well for me.
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They let you bring in your own blank notepad? The local test center provides us with their blank paper to avoid any potential issue.
 
I wanted to draw inappropriate things on the paper since they're required to collect it afterward. But I didn't.
 
I realize I might be coming late "with a cross after the funeral" but when I took my written, I only brought my metal E6B, digital E6B, regular calculator and a ruler.
Though the testing center did provide a big (understand: old-people-style) calculator for free anyway.
I didn't need anything but the calculator and a sheet of scratch paper.

I assume the straightedge might have been meant for inter- or extra-polation of performance charts etc?
 
Calculator can help. Some of the answers have precision better than I can do on an E6B.
 
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