required eqipment for ifr

"Mark" wrote in message
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I was looking at starting my ifr training and realized the 172s in the
club I blelong to don't have DMEs. Is that required for IFR flight? I
noticed alot of checkpoints and such are distance from navaid.

I'll add to the excellent commentary:

1) Don't train in a DME-free plane, and then check out a DME-equipped one
for the checkride (as I nearly did). Checkrides are not the place to figure
how to fly an arc or hold at a DME fix. I had practiced both, but not
recently outside the sim.

2) When looking for approaches to avoid, don't forget to check NOTAMs. For
example, the VOR-A approach at Olympia is semi-permanently NOTAM'ed DME
required, I think because the TCM VOR is longterm out of service, and it was
the other way of identifying HABOR.

-- David Brooks

On my FAA checkride, years ago the the ILS at the local airport was
down for work. The night before my CFII and I went out to practice at
the next biggest airport only to find the glideslope dead. The only
other airport available is the local class C airport but they
discourage practice ILSs by requiring full stop for all approaches
(which makes the checkride take forever, if you have to line up before
the SouthWest 737s each time). Luckily someone came out and fixed the
glide slope at the airport.
-Robert