On a few occasions I have filed a departure procedure to a nearby intersection just to get on top (comments section reads "IFR to VFR on top"). After breaking out of the clouds and advising ATC of the bases and tops, I usually cancel IFR and proceed "own nav" with flight following. Which brings me...

This morning I flew into Erie (KERI), a class D airport in northwest Pennsylvania along Lake Erie. Weather was low IFR with 500 foot ceilings, 4 mile visibility, and winds out of the southwest. An ILS to runway 24 was in...

I am getting ready to start of Instrument training. I plan on training during the day on the weekends and 1 or 2 nights during the week. What are your thoughts on instrument training at night? Personally I don't fly at night and have only for what was required for my PPSEL. However my goal is to...

Is it common for the approach controller to vector for an ILS at an altitude below the GS intercept altitude on the IAP? Today is the third time in the last year or so that Victoria terminal vectored me for the ILS into BLI at 2000 feet, instead of 2100. I'm very familiar with the area and I did...

Peter wrote: However, I've heard from an American pilot that all the overlay approaches in the USA work just the same as the full GPS approaches, in terms of GPS behaviour, auto sensitivity switching, etc. Is this true?

"Peter" wrote in message ... This is the reg which prevents flying instrument approaches unless it is a published one. In the UK, this is not illegal (on G-reg aircraft). But then we don't get the radar services here,...

Flyers, I just want some of your thoughts on this. My plane partner and I went out last night to do some practice instrument approaches. He wore the hood and I was the right-seat safety pilot. ATC was not too busy and it was a nice VFR night. First, after we asked for a practice ILS 24 into...

I understand it as the IRA (Instrument Rating Airplane) and FII (Flight Instructor Instrument) tests come from the same question bank. Does the FII test expire like the IRA does? I didn't see it in part 61 unless I'm missing something. To me, it seems like none of the tests expire for CFI?

I was wondering how to program this into the 430, and if it is even possible. Say you are east of a VOR and ATC gives you a vector to intercept the 270 radial FROM the VOR and track away from the VOR on that radial and intercept an airway. The clearance went something like this: "Glasair 470XX,...

My $.02-- FS2004 is good enough for procedures and scan. Don't bother buying a yoke or pedals. Use a cheap "gamepad" type controller with thumb-joystick (instead of a grip/wrist joystick). Go to "user controlled weather, advanced" and turn turbulence to max, both on the clouds panel and the...

I have the chance to fly from Madison, Wi (MSN) to Providence, Ri (PVD) in July and was wondering about the most favoured route. I will be flying IFR The most direct seems to be straight across Lake Michigan, north of Detroit through Lower Ontario in Canada, Buffalo, Albany and then down to PVD. ...

This one kinda stumps me everytime I am told this. Call tower, request your IFR clearence, they tell you "taxi to runway xxx - clearence available upon request" what I always do is just read back the taxi instructions and wait for them to call me back with the clearence. I guess I dont understand...

I'm close to completing my PPL (9 days for my checkride) and planned to go onto to get IFR training in a 6-7 months. The weather in the San Francisco Bay area has been quite cloudy and rainy and was thinking about starting my IFR training immediately in order to take advantage of the IMC...

Okay, I've been doing this IFR training thing now for a few months, flying once or twice a week, and it's been going pretty well. I've not really had any trouble with the knowledge part (self studied for the written and got 95%) and have been doing nicely with the skill stuff as well, getting the...

Hi all.. just upgraded my excellent Jepp flitestar IFR to flitemap (very good deal it was too ! ) I bought a new laptop which prompted this , the very small Sony TR1MP... Im very impressed with the software indeed, but one question to those who have Flitemap..

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and find the nearest aiports to that city. A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to use to locate the nearest Shell...

On Saturday I had my first opportunity to fly solo in actual since my IR checkride. One of my biggest concerns since getting the rating was how I would make my first entry into actual without the benefit of an instructor at my side. With about ten hours of actual during my training I had always...

I don't fly too many coupled approaches, so forgive me if this is a simplistic question. We were flying a coupled VFR/practice ILS in a Debonair with a Century-2000 A/P. The heading bug was set about 10 degrees to the left of where it should have been, resulting us tracking to the left of...

Today was a good day for it, as there were CBs in all directions around Mobile (so, what else is new?). Around the airport, though, it was scattered cu. with bright sun, a good test for the Sony notebook's viewability. The WxWorx receiver slipped neatly into the Cessna's right front map pocket...