IFR Currency

"Robert M. Gary" writes:

No good for building any form of IMC ontrol scan and awareness.

But good for keeping fresh on procedures. Thinking about hold entry
procedures, identing ratios, etc. Let's face it, how often do most of
us even turn on VORs on during VMC weather nowadays.

I do, very flight that's more than 20 minutes in duration. Whether I'm
IFR or VFR, I try to do a VOR crosscheck. If I can track a radial
conveniently on a cross-country, I do it.

Up here in the (supposedly) frozen north, in the winter, some folks are
hesitant to go into the clouds, but there's no reason why we can't file
IFR and do practice approaches and holds in VMC, single pilot. Sometimes,
I do that instead of the $150 hamburger run. It doesn't count for
meeting currency requirements, but you can't make the needles do the right
thing if you don't understand the procedures, so I'll take the practice.

-Jack