Showing posts with label IFR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IFR. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026

A Nice Day For An Instrument Currency Flight

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Flying like shooting. It is a perishable skill. Instrument flying even more so. Instrument currency can also be a pain to maintain as it is ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

The Flight Back From KMCD

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Once at the Airport, I called for a weather brief. The briefer was very enthusiastic and helpful and suggest flying at 5,000 on the way back...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Saturday Flyday - To KMCD

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Saturday morning I got a weather brief, and then picked Leah up and headed to the airport. Things were,  however, delayed due to some git hi...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Tuesday Fly Day - Now With More Instrument Currency!

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I got up early this morning and met up with Joel at the airport. It was time to take the Dakota up as the Archer has some maintenance being ...
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Sunday, July 07, 2024

Saturday Flyday - IFR Flying With Mr. B.

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This morning I got up and headed to the airport. I was going to fly the Archer, but I don't have my key back from when i dropped the pla...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Saturday Flyday To Mt. Pleasant

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Today the weather started out yucky with low IFR conditions and low fog/clouds everywhere. This all burned off by 10-ish am so we were good ...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

Flying - Instrument Practice Made A Tad Bit Exciting

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The sun was out the sky was clear up to 25k and it was windy. A lot of wind. Indeed a lot of crosswind. 10-22 kt gusting at Pontiac and  it ...
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Monday, July 03, 2023

Flying: Now IFR Current

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Went flying with my friend Dean who not only is a pilot but he's also an instructor. So good friend to have. I filed IFR as the overcast...
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Saturday, October 29, 2022

Not Flying - All Fogged Out

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Was going to do some flying today and while the weather by the house had cleared up nicely by the time I left, at the airport it was a diffe...
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Friday, July 15, 2022

Flying - There We Have It

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 At long last, it is done. I am now an instrument-rated pilot. The short of it:  I came, I flew some approaches, I passed. The long of it: H...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 59 - A Pre-Checkride With Possibilities

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So I pre-flighted N8570F and got ready for today's lesson.  Wind was out of the West gusting at 290-320 around 13-20 knots. The problem ...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 58 - Now With Actual Spatial Disorientation

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So today clouds were kinda low and started getting lower as we flew. The examiner had announced the route we would take for the checkride, a...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

Flying IFR - Not Exactly The Checkride

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So this morning, bright and early, I got up and did all the calculations -- by hand --for a pretend route of flight from KPTK to KMDW via th...
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Sunday, June 26, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 57- Can You Hold Please?

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Yesterday, I did the remedial flight. I decided to really focus on keeping the altitude under control no matter what. I did the preflight fo...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 56 - More Pre-Checkride Practice

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Wind out of the west, sky clear, nice and hot out, time to go flying. This time I actually got N8570F and did the preflight and we then were...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 54 - The Pre-Checkride Checkride Checkride

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Yep, today I was up again.  Beautiful day, wind only 4 knots out of 300, beautiful sunny and nary a cloud in the sky and none anywhere that ...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2022

The Pre-Checkride Oral Exam

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So this morning I met up with Alec to go over the oral component of the IFR checkride as a prerequisite to taking the checkride. Went very w...
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Thursday, June 02, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 53 - The Pre-Checkride Checkride

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Time for the pre-checkride checkride. Went to DCT and found they had swapped out N8570F for N5337F yet again, so this would make it a bit mo...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 52 - Getting Rather Winded

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So today I was up with Rocky in N6288J. Downside - 6288J lacks a Garmin 430W but has the newer touchscreen one without a NAV 1 radio, so I g...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Flying IFR - Lesson 51 - Approaching Acceptable Approaches

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Overall I'd say the practice on my own has paid off. Approaches today were considered to be very good by Rocky, now I just need to fix a...
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