Instrument Rated

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

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David Megginson, , http://www.megginson.com/

David Megginson wrote:
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.

David,

Congratulations!

Just out of curiousity, though, how did your DE handle
partial panel, steep turns, and unusual attitudes?

Did he actually set you up in unusual attitudes IMC,
or have you fly partial panel in IMC, with 400 ft
ceilings?

Cheers,
Sydney

Sydney Hoeltzli writes:

Just out of curiousity, though, how did your DE handle
partial panel, steep turns, and unusual attitudes?

Those are not part of the Canadian IFR flight test, though we do them
all in training, and get tested on unusual attitude recovery under the
hood for the PPL (if I recall correctly). The IFR flight test itself
is just normal ops.

It would be hard to say which approach is best. Our DFTE *is* allowed
to fail instruments or avionics during the test -- I lost my DME for
the NDB approach -- but it's rare to get anything too hard the first
time through. On the other hand, we have to retake the IFR flight
test every two years, and the DFTE's tend to get tougher on the
recurrency tests (i.e. covering the AI and HI, or pulling the circuit
breaker for the TC and waiting to see how long it takes you to
notice).


All the best,


David

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David Megginson, , http://www.megginson.com/

David Megginson ) wrote:

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.

Well done and congratulations to you!

Now you can sit here on the ground, looking up at the broken layer of
cumulous clouds with numerous, embedded t-storms awaiting inside and say,
"sometimes legal is not safe."

--
Peter
Too many scattered t-storms in our neck of the woods these days...

Gotta love the FAA... what's safe's not necessarily legal, and
what's legal's not necessarily safe.


Peter R. wrote:
: David Megginson ) wrote:

: 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.
:
: Well done and congratulations to you!

: Now you can sit here on the ground, looking up at the broken layer of
: cumulous clouds with numerous, embedded t-storms awaiting inside and say,
: "sometimes legal is not safe."

: --
: Peter
: Too many scattered t-storms in our neck of the woods these days...










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David Megginson wrote in message ...
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

Congratulations !!!!!!!!!!!!

On 6 Aug 2003 17:57:16 -0700, (smackey) wrote:

David Megginson wrote in message ...
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.


First, congratulations!

The checkride in actual?
I checked out three locations( TVC, a DE from the Cadillac area, and
one from around Pontiac.) and all of the them required the flight to
be in VMC. They said that as I was to be the PIC for the flight and
wasn't yet rated it had to be in VMC. I was willing, but they
weren't.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

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

Congratulations !!!!!!!!!!!!