Anibal,

In the years of instructing instrument students I never used the
patterns in the FAA Instrument Flying Handbook (which had A and B).
Because of airspace, practice area or wind limitations I always drew
my own patterns for students with changes at one minute intervals.
Perhaps if I were in the western U.S. with a huge amount of airspace
available, I could have used "generic" patterns. Because of that, I
have always sat down with the student prior to a flight and created
one or two patterns that took about 10 minutes each and were designed
to allow us to stay in a general location and not drift downwind into
airspace where we didn't want to be. At first, just changing
airspeeds and making standard rate turns with some 500 fpm climbs and
descents are challenging enough, then you can add aircraft
configuration changes if you desire, to make it tougher. The idea,
however, is to get used to configuring the airplane for an instrument
approach from cruise operation while making turns and descents so that
you get to know what power setting will generate, for example, 100
KIAS with approach flaps in level flight and in a 500 fpm descent and
what power setting is needed once the gear is extended and you desire
to level off at the MDA.

Don't wear yourself out looking for the published pattern (after all,
it was just somebody's idea of a practice exercise many, many years
ago), work with your instructor and tailor patterns to what you need
to work on.

All the best,
Rick

(Hannibal) wrote in message . com...
Hi guys
I am looking for a diagram used in Europe an in other parts of the
world(altough is not very used in the US) that is used to teach
aircraft control during the initial phases of IFR training. Basically
the idea of this is to fly the airplane with different heading,
altitudes and speeds as well as doing configuration changes(gear up,
down, etc). The exercise I am looking is called "B figure"(or
something similar, I know it for its spanish name) for the apparent
track of the airplane.
Does anybody know where I can find it?
Thank you

Anibal