AviationBanter - View Single Post - Instruement checkride...for real this time (long)

Mark Hansen · February 26th 06, 04:38 PM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting

On 02/26/06 08:16, unicate wrote:
Jack Allison wrote:
The short answer: I passed :-)

Wow...CONGRATULATIONS!

Thanks for posting your checkride story. I'm about to begin, and have
printed out your story to re-read when more of it will make sense to me!
LOL. Hope you saved a copy, too. I wrote my private checkride story
right afterwards, and it's fun to go back and read it every once in a
while. I would have forgotten some of the details if I hadn't written
them all down.

If you like reading about other peoples IFR training, here are a couple
that I've run across which provide lots of great gems of wisdom:

This is an online log of the accelerated IFR training written
by Marc J. Zeitlin:

http://www.cozybuilders.org/2005_Instrument_Training/

Here is a good accounting of Joe Campbell's IFR training experience:

http://www.campbells.org/Airplanes/Diary/toc.html

And finally:

Ed Williams Aviation Page:

http://williams.best.vwh.net/

Ed is a CFII with lots of great information on his site.

Not having done the IA rating yet, it's a little daunting to hear
*everyone*, even those that have gone all the way to ATP, say the
instrument rating was the hardest one! Doesn't ANYONE say, "It was hard,
but not as bad as I anticipated" ???

I will ;-)

Seriously, I expected it would be much worse than it was. I had a hard
time getting over the knowledge test hump, in that initially, it seemed
like an incredible amount of information that I had to somehow learn.

However, there are lots of things you can do to make this work, and
they each just take some time, so you have to be patient and be willing
to study.

Personally, I used the Gleim test prep book (along with reading the FAR/AIM,
and other books, etc.). In the end, I got an acceptable score (okay, it
was 100%, but that was really an accident ;-) )

As far as the training goes, the CFII will walk you through it. What could
be easier than that? ;-)

Also, there are a lot of folks here with lots of great advice to help
you along your way!

--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA