Re: !st Instrument flight
- From: WingFlaps <Moreflaps@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:25:51 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 1, 6:54 am, jsstev...@xxxxxxx wrote:
Well, sort of. I had 4.2 hours of simulated instrument while working
on my PP-ASEL. But today was the first training flight to actually
work on my IR.
We are swapping off with time on my instructor's simulator (not
loggable, but darn close) and time in the plane. I spent a couple of
hours with him last Monday evening flying the sim and practicing
procedure turns and tracking a VOR radial, and an NDB mag bearing. We
also shot a couple of ILS's.
Today, the airplane. We took off from KORL (Orlando Exec.) and headed
out to the west. I put on the foggles at ~300AGL and didn't take them
off until short final. I flew the heading given, held us at
1500' (staying under the class B shelf), set cruise power and leaned
out the engine. He commented "You held altitude really well while I
was distracting you." We went up to 2500 and did an attempt at an "a"
pattern. It's from an insturment book and involved timed turns and
managing changing from cruise power to slow cruise power and back.
Then a "b" pattern, adding climbs and descents and managing power
while turning. I did pretty well and only got fouled up a time or two.
It's not too bad a load for me, yet.
Then time to call approach and ask for ILS 7 into Orlando. Orlando
approach's radio was making alot of interesting noises, some of them
resembling speech. It was pretty annoying, but after a while it
cleared up. I followed the vectors with him handling the radio. On the
ILS I did pretty well but got a little confused when he was giving me
instructions while I was doing things. I defintely need more practice
with managing the load. He says that an ILS makes you do everything
you do for instrument flying at once and if you can handle the ILS you
can pretty much do it all. We'll see.
So, in summary, 1.8 hours dual, 1.7 hours simulated instrument. No
scary moments, a medicore landing (but hey, I haven't landed since
November and that's my excuse). Next lesson: on sim - Monday, in plane
next Thursday with a cross country to Craig field Jax, Gainesville,
Ocala and home.
Wow, that's a long time under the hood for a lesson. Where I am you
are not put under the hood for more than 45 mins to avoid brain
saturation. I enjoyed IF (found it easier than precision VF!) but did
not do an ILS. I'm guessing that the idea that a non-ILS rated pilot
would need that skill is essentially zero. In addition, basic IF
training to that level might make you more bold about flying when and
where you shouldn't? Comments?
Cheers
.
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