Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Aeronautical experience in the regulations does not require that you have any actual instrument flight time to obtain your instrument rating. That’s correct, you can earn your instrument rating with flight time only in simulated conditions.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Somatogravic Illusion Let’s say you increase power to increase speed at night or in IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions). A quick identification and correction of the bank is all you need to avoid the graveyard spiral altogether. Your brain, ever so deceptive, interprets this feeling as a climb.

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

From flight planning, I knew that we would experience rain, instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and darkness. Mitigating factors included no risk of convection (thunderstorms) or icing at our cruise altitude of 5,000 feet and VFR conditions expected to prevail at Saratoga Springs for our landing.

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Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

One or more blockages in these holes, alone or in combination, create different errors in instrument indication. It’s critical for pilots, especially those flying in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) , to know how to identify these errors and what secondary instruments can be used as a back-up.

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Pitot Tube Altimeter Instrument Meteorological Conditions Descent 73

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

The GOM also called for the airspeed to be “on target” at such altitudes respectively. According to the GOM, either pilot could call for a go-around, yet neither did despite the published stabilized approach criteria being violated.

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

The NTSB recently published the probable cause as “the non-instrument-rated pilot’s decision to continue visual flight into an area of instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in a loss of control due to spatial disorientation. No other mechanical abnormalities with the airframe or engine were present.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 4, 2023

by Gustin Robinson, FAA CFI-I ASEL Flying under instrument meteorological conditions keeps even a good pilot on their toes. But now, while flying in low visibility and overcast cloud layers, you have to rely on your instrumentation more than ever before and keep your eyes inside the airplane.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

The NTSB recently published the probable cause as “the non-instrument-rated pilot’s decision to continue visual flight into an area of instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in a loss of control due to spatial disorientation. No other mechanical abnormalities with the airframe or engine were present.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Weather Airplanes Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The NTSB recently published its final report on this crash, determining the probable cause to be the “noninstrument-rated pilot’s intentional visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions based on latent weather information, which resulted in the airplane entering extreme precipitation, a loss of aircraft control, and in-flight breakup.”

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

” This is especially common when flying in IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions) —like clouds or fog—when you can’t see outside. The textbook definition is: “The inability of a pilot to correctly interpret an aircraft’s attitude, altitude, or airspeed in relation to the earth or another reference point.”

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Runway Instrument Meteorological Conditions Approach Airplanes 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

We spent some time in instrument meteorological conditions over Vermont. One of our last glimpses of the ground was the Connecticut River that physically coincides with the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. At one point, we entered a region of sufficient turbulence that I disengaged the autopilot to hand-fly.

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Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Helicopter courses include surviving inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), advanced energy management, and advanced cockpit resource management. Other courses specific to fixed-wing aircraft offered are titled advanced upset recovery and rejected takeoff go/no-go decision-making.

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Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 29, 2024

total), where IMC = instrument meteorological conditions. Landing on five different grass runways (Woolsey Memorial, 5D5; Basin Harbor B06; Shelburne, VT8; Benton, PA40; and Green, 4N7) in four different states (MI, VT, NY, PA) with three of them being new to me. The Numbers Hours flown: 176.8 / 2945.2 Hours in IMC: 8.7 / 87.8

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

IFR Currency Requirements As a pilot, you must remain proficient in flying under Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC). The FAA requires specific currency requirements to maintain your instrument flying privileges. Within the Past 6 Months, You Must Log: 6 instrument approaches.

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Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Number of hours flown in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) in 2023 for a lifetime total of 79.1. This was largely due to my week in Michigan for seaplane training in which I logged 31.4 hours in a single week combined across time in my Warrior and Tom's Super Cruiser. 12.7 / 135.6:

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

The risk of losing control is higher in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) or at night. So, it’s important to use the flight instruments to maintain control. Another issue is controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). CFIT is likely when the pilot does not pitch up adequately or if the aircraft stalls.

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Wind Shear Runway Approach Aeronautical Decision-Making 52

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 13, 2023

hours in instrument meteorological conditions with one instrument approach logged (Pickens County Airport) and two IFR departures (Pickens County and Knoxville). Almost home. Remarkably flat cumulus bottoms on the descent into Sodus. Recap This year's SurnameFest expedition added 13.8 hours to the logbook, including 1.9

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Putting the front to our tails, we flew in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) for 30 minutes before emerging under a clear blue sky. Despite those ground clearances, we found that the ceiling above our home airport was high enough to accommodate VFR departures with airborne clearances. Better safe than sorry.

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