Passed IRF Retest

You must be the only one who likes his humor. Why don't you spend some
time
with an instructor in a simulator and doing ground school. the courses
are
only geared to passing the knowledge test.

I already have my IFR ticket. The knowledge is what I'm after. All I
really need is a refresher course, but I'd rather just go through the entire
home study course so I don't miss anything. The sim time is not needed as
when I can afford to fly again I'll get an instrument comp check and that
will no doubt take awhile longer than usual. Maybe between 5 and 6 hours of
hood time will get me back in the hack again.

The FARs and AIM come out every year - you cannot go wrong buying it and
reading it.

That is without question as the FAR/AIM is required to fly PIC. It's one of
the thing I gotta have anyway.

but I'd rather just go through the entire
home study course so I don't miss anything.


There is no way you are not going to "miss anything". You can fly for years
and keep learning... isn't that also "stuff you missed"

Jose


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There is no way you are not going to "miss anything". You can fly for
years
and keep learning... isn't that also "stuff you missed"

Agreed. One reason I need to buy the King instrument course is because of
the lack of quality of my ground school. I know there's a lot of things
that I missed, especially procedures on different "full approaches". Mainly
procedure turns. The proper way of doing things. I was rather dependant on
ATC vectoring me to the FAC. If they would say "Decend to 3000, cleared for
the approach" and I wasn't on an intercept heading, that's about the time I
would ask for one.

Bill Gamelson wrote:

liberal snippage throughout

I already have my IFR ticket. The knowledge is what I'm after. All I

The knowledge you need to fly is not the same as the knowledge you need to pass
the test. The King courses are geared to passing the test. You don't need to
pass the test.

really need is a refresher course, but I'd rather just go through the entire
home study course so I don't miss anything.

OK, but find a home study course that's not simply geared to answering the silly
knowledge test questions.

That is without question as the FAR/AIM is required to fly PIC. It's one of
the thing I gotta have anyway.

Knowledge of the FARs and AIM are required. There is no requirement whatsoever
that you posess a written copy.

Knowledge of the FARs and AIM are required. There is no requirement
whatsoever
that you posess a written copy.

When did they change that? I was always told by my instructors that I had
to actually have a copy of the current FAR's in my possession. The AIM is
not required at all, but the catch to that is if I have an accident due to
something I overlooked that is discussed in the AIM, the NTSB can fault me
for that, but I was always told and I believe I actually read in the FAR's
that a current copy of the FAR's must be in the pilot's possession.

Of course I was also told that once you reach the DH, you cannot legally
descend below the DH unless you have at least the runway environment in
sight, but another pilot told me that is a grey area and the reason I was
told that is because the instructors want to keep me alive. He said "How
long does it take you to make a decision while you are on the glide slope?"
Yea, right. I took that with a grain of salt. If I reach the DH and I
can't see the lights, I'm going missed.