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The value of actual IFR conditions

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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. The next and more complicated step is to try seeking out these conditions.

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The Flying Bear Goes to Beantown | Part 4, Going Missed

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However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. We spent some time in instrument meteorological conditions over Vermont.

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In Search of the Headless Horseman

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As our trip to Sleepy Hollow neared, forecasts for IFR weather inspired a shuffling of airplanes and pilots so that our seven adventurers were distributed among three IFR-capable airplanes with current IFR pilots. Eventually, we passed through the cold front that had pushed the dismal weather into Sodus that morning.