Mark Hansen wrote:

Here is a good accounting of Joe Campbell's IFR training experience:

http://www.campbells.org/Airplanes/Diary/toc.html

This is definitely a good read. I have to checkout the others.

Not having done the IA rating yet, it's a little daunting to hear
*everyone*, even those that have gone all the way to ATP, say the
instrument rating was the hardest one! Doesn't ANYONE say, "It was
hard, but not as bad as I anticipated" ???


I will ;-)

Figures... :-)

Seriously, I expected it would be much worse than it was. I had a hard
time getting over the knowledge test hump, in that initially, it seemed
like an incredible amount of information that I had to somehow learn.

To me, this is one aspect that added to the "overall harder rating"
idea. Sure, once you get your head around some stuff and can deal with
the procedures (while flying the plane), things get easier. However,
getting to this point can be mind numbing at times and can take much
more concentrated effort. In the end, I'm glad that I experienced total
brain overload while flying *and* having my CFII in the right seat.
These times were very good object lessons that you really need your act
together while flying IFR.

However, there are lots of things you can do to make this work, and
they each just take some time, so you have to be patient and be willing
to study.

Yes, patience patience patience and study study study. Lather, rinse,
repeat...


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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