Instrument Rated

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:34:00 GMT, John Theune
wrote:

David Megginson wrote in
:

I just wanted to mention that I passed my IFR flight test this
morning. We did it in hard IFR, with a 400-foot ceiling -- it was a
lot of fun.

Thank you to everyone in this group for your contributions, which
helped me develop more background knowledge of IFR flight than I could
otherwise have hoped to have.


All the best,


David


Where was it done and who was your DE? I had my checkride postponed twice
because on poor weather. My DE said that the IFR checkride had to be
performed in VFR conditions and led me to believe that it was mandated that
way. I believed him as he pointed out trying to do unusal attitude
recovery in IMC was not condusive to prolonged life.

Not necessarily. Part of my test was done in VFR, above the clouds for
the unusual attidudes etc. I had a couple of approaches in IMC (didn't
see the airport on the VOR approach) so had to do a missed. This was
in Northern California (SF Bay area).