IFR Lesson 4 - Blame Canada
11/27/2007 Filed in: Flying
IFR Lesson 4 - Blame Canada
CFII: I got bad news.
Me: Wait, don't tell me. DA-40 is still not up.
CFII: Nope. Want to go to the sim?
Me: Sure.
The sim is a great tool, it really is. And I think every instrument student should do at least *some* training in one. Trouble is, I really need flight time to meet the IFR experience requirements, and the sim is less helpful in that regard.
We practice my first ILS approaches into Smyrna, complete with the missed approach. This whole missed approach thing seems like overkill to me. I'm just going to fly them all perfectly so I don't need that. I run my idea by CFII and he is unimpressed.
I demonstrate my superior skill by wiggling the localizer needle like a windshield wiper blade. All the while oscillating so wildly around the glideslope that I have to call simulated flight watch to give a severe turbulence pirep just to maintain appearances. After testing the tolerances of the simulator's glideslope, we call it a day.
CFII: I got bad news.
Me: Wait, don't tell me. DA-40 is still not up.
CFII: Nope. Want to go to the sim?
Me: Sure.
The sim is a great tool, it really is. And I think every instrument student should do at least *some* training in one. Trouble is, I really need flight time to meet the IFR experience requirements, and the sim is less helpful in that regard.
We practice my first ILS approaches into Smyrna, complete with the missed approach. This whole missed approach thing seems like overkill to me. I'm just going to fly them all perfectly so I don't need that. I run my idea by CFII and he is unimpressed.
I demonstrate my superior skill by wiggling the localizer needle like a windshield wiper blade. All the while oscillating so wildly around the glideslope that I have to call simulated flight watch to give a severe turbulence pirep just to maintain appearances. After testing the tolerances of the simulator's glideslope, we call it a day.