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"Scott Schluer" wrote in message
... I would grumble also! I'm not IR (nor have I even begun IR training yet) but it stands to reason that if you're being tested for competency as it relates to flying in IMC and you run scared from actual IMC during your checkride due to fear of failure or whatnot, you're not ready for it. So it's a little more stressful, ... *Is* it more stressful? In Europe we have to do a checkride each year for the IR. I pray for some nice IMC. It's usually smooth (Texans note, YMMV) and the airspace is much quieter. There's usually enough clear air somewhere to do the unusual attitudes work with peace of mind. By contrast, on a "nice" VMC day as we're getting at the moment in the UK, there seems to be a thermal (whoops there's 200 ft!) every mile and about half of them have gliders hanging in them. I'll take soup any day. Julian Scarfe |
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"David Megginson" wrote in message ... "Julian Scarfe" writes: In Europe we have to do a checkride each year for the IR. I pray for some nice IMC. It's usually smooth (Texans note, YMMV) and the airspace is much quieter. That's why I scheduled my first IFR flight test (Canadian ones are biennial) for 8:00 am. I was hoping for morning fog and smooth air, and I got 400 ft ceilings. Out here in Arizona, we get about ten IMC days a year....maybe. |
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In article link.net, Iain Wilson wrote:
Anyone IR without having actually flown in IMC? My checkride is around the corner and I've no actual IFR yet. I'm itching to experience it but the damned weather isn't co-operating (seemed the same way with the PPL!). Not much of an answer, but I can tell you that the one place you *DON'T* want to pursue your IR training is in the Mojave Desert area (about an hour's drive northeast of Los Angeles, USA) -- 360 days of perfect VMC conditions, 4 days of degraded but still VMC conditions, and only one day of actual IMC per year on the average. With its wide-open desert areas and sunny skies, I think it'd be a dream for me to do VFR flying there But completely the opposite for doing any IFR flying in IMC conditions. Of course, given that they've got a major military base in the area with all sorts of exotic planes in the air... not likely to be much general aviation air traffic other than these crossing via a carefully controlled north-south corridor (as I understand it)! I still can't believe I was able to see the base from about 1 1/2 hours out (by car) given the desert was such so flat and wide-open with perfect atmospheric conditions. Although it sure did have that illusion-like quality to it -- seemed like it was 20 minutes away but in reality, about 90! -Dan |
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"Dan Foster" wrote in message ... In article link.net, Iain Wilson wrote: Anyone IR without having actually flown in IMC? My checkride is around the corner and I've no actual IFR yet. I'm itching to experience it but the damned weather isn't co-operating (seemed the same way with the PPL!). Not much of an answer, but I can tell you that the one place you *DON'T* want to pursue your IR training is in the Mojave Desert area (about an hour's drive northeast of Los Angeles, USA) -- 360 days of perfect VMC conditions, 4 days of degraded but still VMC conditions, and only one day of actual IMC per year on the average. With its wide-open desert areas and sunny skies, I think it'd be a dream for me to do VFR flying there But completely the opposite for doing any IFR flying in IMC conditions. Of course, given that they've got a major military base in the area with all sorts of exotic planes in the air... not likely to be much general aviation air traffic other than these crossing via a carefully controlled north-south corridor (as I understand it)! I still can't believe I was able to see the base from about 1 1/2 hours out (by car) given the desert was such so flat and wide-open with perfect atmospheric conditions. Although it sure did have that illusion-like quality to it -- seemed like it was 20 minutes away but in reality, about 90! -Dan Thanks for the promo, Dan. Take a look on the north half of the LA sectional and you'll find a number of GA airports. My home patch happens to be IYK (Inyokern, locally we refer to it as IYK International). WE pretty much deal with the MOAs and other Special Use Areas. From the south end of the region, starting at Palmdale, a pretty tight corridor runs north and south through an MOA, just as you said, until you get past the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake. A couple of east/west corridors exist. One going just about even with Palmdale headed to KDAG and HEC. Another pushes east/west from IYK through what we call the Trona Corridor. That one just skirts the southern boundary of R-2505 with a little bounce over R-2506 at 6,000MSL. Most times you can request and get clearance through -06. As far at the weather, it is like you said severe-clear most of the year. But the winds, ah the winds. In the spring we can get winds like you can't talk about. The National Weather Service classifies a hurricane as having winds faster than 75MPH. We've done that. And the dust storms -- a couple years ago a north wind picked up dust(sand) from Owens Lake (just norht of IYK) and delivered it to San Diego. We call those quarter-inch winds. The wind blows hard enough to carry quarter-inch gravel. Well, that may be an exageration. I'm in the midst of IR training -- flying out of Edwards Aeroclub at Edward AFB -- and I appreciate the problems of no actual. My instructor promises me we'll cross into the LA basin a couple of times so I don't have to wear the Foggles. Tailwinds.... Casey |
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link.net, Iain Wilson wrote: Anyone IR without having actually flown in IMC? My checkride is around the corner and I've no actual IFR yet. I'm itching to experience it but the damned weather isn't co-operating (seemed the same way with the PPL!). It happens with regularity in some parts of the country. Mark Kolber APA/Denver, Colorado www.midlifeflight.com ====================== email? Remove ".no.spam" |
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"Casey Wilson" writes:
[snip] As far at the weather, it is like you said severe-clear most of the year. But the winds, ah the winds. In the spring we can get winds like you can't talk about. The National Weather Service classifies a hurricane as having winds faster than 75MPH. We've done that. And the dust storms -- a couple years ago a north wind picked up dust(sand) from Owens Lake (just norht of IYK) and delivered it to San Diego. We call those quarter-inch winds. The wind blows hard enough to carry quarter-inch gravel. Well, that may be an exageration. Have you figured out the ceiling readings issued by China Lake? I seem to recall a 50,000 ft. "ceiling" being reported and looking out the window at clouds so thin you could see right through them. Would anything other than an SR71 be concerned about that? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Everett M. Greene (The Mojave Greene, crotalus scutulatus scutulatus) Ridgecrest, Ca. 93555 Path: The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. |
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In a previous article, (Everett M. Greene) said:
Have you figured out the ceiling readings issued by China Lake? I seem to recall a 50,000 ft. "ceiling" being reported and looking out the window at clouds so thin you could see right through them. Would anything other than an SR71 be concerned about that? Sun tanners. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ There are many types of bigotry, some of them completely OK and acceptable. This is the acceptable type called "postjudice". -- Mike Andrews |
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