Daniel L. Lieberman wrote:

Gregg,

What gives you the idea the croscountries must be VFR?

Well I don't have the idea that they have to be VFR. But I'll be doing many
of the next hours of XC VFR as I'l be adding challenges on each trip.


Fly them under the
hood and log them as both crosscountry and simulated instrument time. That
is what I did and my DPE was happy with it.

After a while I'll probably do that.

thanks

Gregg


Daniel

"gregg" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I've begun my IFR taining and at the same time, racking up the cross
country hours required for the ticket.

I'm wondering what things I could do in these strictly VFR XC's that
would
help me learn/gain insight or facility with the IFR world. So far I
have:

1) My CFII suggested I plan routes that VOR hop

2) Another CFII suggested I take along IFR enroute charts and look them
over
while enroute

3) it occured to me to select alternates and plan fuel reserves as if
this was IMC.

Are there any other things that could be done during a strictly VFR XC
that
would help?

thanks

Gregg