Organizational Skills Required During Instrument Flight

I fly with two of these.
I write down every frequency change. It's not a big deal and on the return
flight it's nice to have all the frequencies written down so you know what
to expect.

I don't fly ifr that much. I always consider those radios (vor's and an
ndb) as primary navigation. It's a simple matter to to glance at the gps
(396) to verify. If you are a student, I would suggest a 396 and spend a
bit of time learning it. You can quickly load the approaches and
graphically see what atc is doing. Otherwise, during training, I found that
I was just blindly following vectors without really visualizing. After
doing the approaches for a while, you will start to anticipate atc. I now
fly practice approaches without the gps.

I like my old panel. 2 vor's, 1 ils, adf, vaccum and electric attitude, and
396 with weather. As long as you really understand how to use a vor, the
rest is just repetative procedures that will become second nature.

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Unfortunately, not with KX-170B's. :-(

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