How are you IFR pilots keeping your currency up? I am just getting back in the flying game after a 10 year absence and plan on brushing off my rating and putting it to good use.
I have been flying a flight sim to knock some of the rust off my scans and procedures but will have to get in a real plane at some point. Just wondering how the rest of you are doing with it.
I have been flying a flight sim to knock some of the rust off my scans and procedures but will have to get in a real plane at some point. Just wondering how the rest of you are doing with it.
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Re: Instrument currency for the occasional flier
Fri, July 27, 2007 - 2:09 AMdepending on your schedule, my fellow instrument rated friend and i like to fly late at night. we work for an fbo at KSNA and get off work around 2330, we have been lucky lately with the marine layer coming in to get some actual. but anyways that late at night the tower is closed so we call socal and request a IFR tower in route clearence from SNA to SNA. its great cause it is so quiet without all the traffic we can make multiple approachs at an air port that is one of the busiest class C airports in socal during the day. Im not sure if this helps you, but the best advise is just get in an airplane with courage and a can do attitude and go for it. -
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Re: Instrument currency for the occasional flier
Mon, August 6, 2007 - 8:49 PMThanks, I fly in to KACV where my parents live and get to shoot approaches on a simi regular basis, but I don't get a lot of enroute actual time in. I like the late night idea though, that could make things a lot easier. The plane (as long as you could get it from the fbo at that hour) would be easier to schedule and the darkness could pass for IFR if you tried real hard.
The computer is pretty handy for sharpening my procedures as well. Shooting approaches on the computer is great for becoming familiar with the approaches to an unfamiliar airport, plus it is a lot cheaper (although much less fun) than actual flight hours. -
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Re: Instrument currency for the occasional flier
Tue, August 28, 2007 - 8:24 PMI fly X-planes, and they make a version that the FAA will accept as simulator time. You can even use real weather. I don't do instrument approaches, but my sandbox is Edwards AFB. I like to do crash n dashes in anything with wings out there. There are about 2 dozen runways in every direction on the Edwards map.
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