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PilotWorkshop is offering their “IFR Proficiency Series” for $100 off their original price until June 21st, 2010.  

After that they are stopping the discount and going back to the normal price. 

Now, whether you are a Private Pilot, Instrument Pilot or ATP, and you like to learn, you will want to at least check out their website. This information is compiled by some of the best flight instructors and pilots in the industry right now. 

Their insights and “secrets” are things that you just can’t get from from anywhere else. 

And like I said, right now, it is $100 off and well that is one flight lesson right there. Think of the things you can learn. 

IFR Proficiency Series for $100 less 

Check out their website. Once you get there you can read about all the great stuff they will send you for this insanely discounted product on instrument (IFR) flying. 

If you don’t do it, you’ll kick yourself. Why? Because some of the greatest names in flight instructing and aviation have contributed to the development of this material. You can’t find this anywhere else! 

So before you do ANYTHING else, click on the link below and just check it out.  

Get the “IFR Proficiency Series” here  

Remember, the price goes back up June 21st, 2010. You won’t be able to get it again for at least another six months if you miss it now. 

Oh, and one more thing… 

You might be asking yourself, “Do I really need this? After all, I’m just a Private Pilot [Instrument Pilot, ATP, astronaut, etc.]”  

Well let me put it this way…flying is all about learning. The more you learn, the safer you are. If you really love flying, and you are a Private Pilot, trust me, you will definitely benefit from this information. If you want to one day get your instrument rating, this will give you a great head start! 

If you ARE an instrument rated pilot or ATP, you will benefit also. Personally, I never stop reading and learning and I have thousands of hours and trust me, this is good stuff! 

To Your Flying Success, 

Jeffrey

When a pilot is flying on instrument flight rules (IFR), a successfully executed ILS approach is what most pilots aspire to. I mean how awesome is it to be in the clouds, being bumped around, having to work the radios, all the while organizing and planning for an ILS approach to minimums, when all of a sudden you reach your decision height (DH) and there is the approach lights and the runway.

OK, you can breath now…

Do you remember when it was all so confusing and you thought that you would never learn how to do one?

I still sit up and get excited when I’m in the weather doing the ILS approach. It is serious business.

That is why I thought I’d to talk briefly about three instrument related things today:

1. Planning and the “Next Two Things”
2. Glass cockpits and the “What-If” Game
3. The GPS and a Backup Plan

Planning and the “Next Two Things”

We have all heard that flying is all about the “next two things.”

You should always be planning for what comes next and then what comes after that. If you are just sitting there with nothing to do, you are already falling behind and soon you may find yourself literally hanging off the tail as the airplane goes where IT wants to go.

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Once you become a pilot, you have a lot of things you need to do to stay proficient and be able to exercise your pilot-in-command (PIC) privileges.

Take offs and landings, night landings, biennial flight reviews (BFR), and spins…OK, maybe not spins, but you get the point.

Unfortunately, these are not ”one-off” things. Flying takes practice and constant exposure to be safe.

One thing I always see slip is IFR proficiency. I’m not talking about currency, I’m talking about proficiency. 

Many pilots get their instrument rating and never use it. Others get their ratings but fly IFR so rarely that they scare themselves out of flying when they do go. Some pilots go to their flight school, shoot their approaches using a simulator (FAR 61.57) and call it good. Now they are current and at least it’s something but it’s not real IFR flying. You need more.

If you have an instrument rating, you need to use it.

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A couple weeks ago I wrote about using simulators. You can see the whole article here:

Flight Simulators: A Great Way to Learn and Experience Flying.

But two things have happened since I wrote that post.

First, I had my recurrent simulator training at FlightSafety in Salt Lake City and second, a friend of mine had an interview with Colgan airlines.

First, my simulator story.

If you remember, back in January 2009, I had a Line-Oriented Flight Training simulator session or LOFT. Incredibly useful and dare I say, fun? I learned a lot and still apply what I learned that day when I fly. The most important thing I learned that day was when you have an emergency, do not delay declaring an emergency. Once you’ve declared an emergency, everyone is focused on you and helping you and then you can focus on the task of getting the airplane on the ground—safely!

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Being a pilot isn’t about just getting your certificates and ratings. These are really just tickets to learn. Even now, after thousands of hours in single-engine airplanes and the CRJ, I am still learning. Sometimes it’s little things but sometimes it is really big things like this book:

Instrument Flying Update: What every Instrument Pilot Needs to Know About the New Rules on Approach Transitions, WAAS, LPV, LNAV/VNAV, RNAV SIDs, TAWS, and Much More” by John Eckalbar’s

I found that I had gotten into a rut on my instrument flying. That is pretty easy to do when you fly for an airline. Flight Dispatch plans your flight, tells you the weather, and whether or not there is a chance to divert. Pretty easy stuff. You just have to manage the in-between stuff. Then one day the company decided to implement GPS approaches. Why we hadn’t done it sooner, I don’t know. GPS approaches are efficient and in many cases can get you down to 200 feet above ground level (AGL) which is equivalent to a Category I ILS approach. Of course I understood the basics of GPS but my knowledge was behind on the mechanics of the GPS approach.

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