Instrument Rated

Sydney Hoeltzli writes:

Just out of curiousity, though, how did your DE handle
partial panel, steep turns, and unusual attitudes?

Those are not part of the Canadian IFR flight test, though we do them
all in training, and get tested on unusual attitude recovery under the
hood for the PPL (if I recall correctly). The IFR flight test itself
is just normal ops.

It would be hard to say which approach is best. Our DFTE *is* allowed
to fail instruments or avionics during the test -- I lost my DME for
the NDB approach -- but it's rare to get anything too hard the first
time through. On the other hand, we have to retake the IFR flight
test every two years, and the DFTE's tend to get tougher on the
recurrency tests (i.e. covering the AI and HI, or pulling the circuit
breaker for the TC and waiting to see how long it takes you to
notice).


All the best,


David

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