IFR Groundcourse: Which books

"Geo. Anderson" wrote in message . ..

7) Rod Machado's Instrument Survival (first edition; there is now a new
one) I felt was very weak. But then I am in the 1% of pilots
(apparently) who find his humor very tiresome. His Private book was
good enough that I endured the cuteness and all the exclamation points,
but the instrument book was not. IMHO, anyway.


I'm with you on that. I can't stand Machado's books. I tried to read
his private book when I was studying that, and felt like he was trying
to talk to an elementary school kid. I glanced through his other ones
and saw enough that turned me off enough that I didn't attempt to read
any more of them.
I was pleasantly surprised when I've watched his videos, though. I
thoroughly enjoyed his humor in those. They are not study material,
though, just aviation humor videos.

As for my study material preference, I really like Kershner's books
for an overall understanding.
A good question bank with answers is good for preparing for the
written, and ASA's Oral Exam Guides are great for the checkride oral.

I've got the ASA 2004 Instrument Test Prep manual which has all the FAA
ground exam questions, the correct answers and an explanation of why the
incorrect answers are, in fact, incorrect. I'll let you know in a couple
of weeks if it did me any good. :

-c

"Thomas Wimmer" wrote in message
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Hello

I'm staying for some months in Mojave, and would like to use the
opportunity to get my instrument rating while in the US.

In order to prepare myself (for the written test as well as for the
whole ifr stuff generally), I would like to do some home-study before
travelling to the US.

What kind of training material would you recommend?

Currently I do have set my eyes on the Instrument/Commercial manual from
Jeppesen, as I have used the Privat manual some years ago to learn for
my privat certificate and I liked it.

Any other recommandation?

Video: I didn't needed them on my vfr/privat training, so I figure I
don't need them for my ifr. what are the thoughts on those?


Thanks


Thomas

Hallo Thomas,

I would recommend a CD-ROM software training course, if that fits your
learning style. The one from Jeppesen is very good, IMHO, providing you
with explanations and a real "course", not the questions only.

With regard to books, in addition to what's been said, I'd recommend

- Bob Gardner's Complete Pilot
- Rod Machado's Instrument Flying book, if you can stand the humor
- Peter Dogan's course book. He is the founder of P.I.C.'s ten-day IR
courses. An excellent basic book

These books are more geared towards IR training in general, not so much
getting through the written.

Oh, re the King videos: They are really hard to stand for people that
don't like the King-type personality. One minute makes me scream and
want to destroy things. But that's just me...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Oh, re the King videos: They are really hard to stand for people that
don't like the King-type personality. One minute makes me scream and
want to destroy things. But that's just me...


Let's all keep a watch on Thomas GRIN ;0)

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I would recommend a CD-ROM software training course, if that fits your
learning style. The one from Jeppesen is very good,

Yes, I agree. Forgot to mention that in my post above but Jepp's fast
paced little lectures followed by questions are a nice diversion from
slogging though test questions fed to you by a computer and sitting
staring at a book. The Sporty's DvD course is good for the same reason
but it really takes a long time to go through it all.

The nice thing about all the CDROM and DvD courses, Jeppesen, Sporty's,
and King are that you can buy them on eBay, use them for as long as you
want and then resell them for about what you paid. I think I actually
made money reselling my Jepp and Sporty's discs when I was done with them.

Geo. Anderson

"Geo. Anderson" wrote in message ...
The nice thing about all the CDROM and DvD courses, Jeppesen, Sporty's,
and King are that you can buy them on eBay, use them for as long as you
want and then resell them for about what you paid. I think I actually
made money reselling my Jepp and Sporty's discs when I was done with them.

yeah.. thats what I did.. a $300 king course for $60 I'll throw it
back up on ebay when I'm done

I would also recommend "Instrument Flying Made Easy" available through
http://www.genehudson.com/ghft/.

Possiblely the best practical reference for procedures for basic attitude
instrument flight.

Luke.


"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
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Hallo Thomas,

I would recommend a CD-ROM software training course, if that fits your
learning style. The one from Jeppesen is very good, IMHO, providing you
with explanations and a real "course", not the questions only.

With regard to books, in addition to what's been said, I'd recommend

- Bob Gardner's Complete Pilot
- Rod Machado's Instrument Flying book, if you can stand the humor
- Peter Dogan's course book. He is the founder of P.I.C.'s ten-day IR
courses. An excellent basic book

These books are more geared towards IR training in general, not so much
getting through the written.

Oh, re the King videos: They are really hard to stand for people that
don't like the King-type personality. One minute makes me scream and
want to destroy things. But that's just me...

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)