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INSTRUMENT REQUIREMENTS

Eligibility Requirements

  • Proficient in English

  • Hold at least Private Pilot Certificate or apply for PPL  along with Instrument rating

  • Receive ground and log ground training, or complete a ground school course

  • Receive a logbook endorsement or certificate required to take the written exam

  • Hold current medical

  • Receive endorsement to take checkride

  • Pass written test​

 

Aeronautical Knowledge

  • FAR’s that apply to flight operations under IFR

  • Appropriate information that applies to flight operations under IFR in the AIM

  • ATC system and procedures for instrument flight operations

  • IFR navigation and approaches by use of navigation systems

  • Use of IFR en route and instrument approach procedure charts

  • Procurement and use of aviation weather reports and forecasts and the elements of forecasting weather trends based on that information and personal observation of weather conditions

  • Safe and efficient operation of aircraft under instrument flight rules and conditions

  • Recognition of critical weather situations and windshear avoidance

  • Aeronautical decision making and judgment

  • Crew resource management

 

Aeronautical Experience Requirements

  • 50 hours of Cross-Country PIC

  • 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument

    • 15 of which must have been received from an appropriately rated instructor and include:

      • 3 hours of instrument flight training within 2 calendar months prior to the date of practical test

      • Instrument flight training on cross-country flight procedures, including 1 cross-country that is performed under IFR, when a flight plan has been filed with an air traffic control facility, and that involves:

        • A flight of 250 nm along airways or by directed routing from ATC

        • An instrument approach at each airport

        • 3 different kinds of approaches with the use of navigation systems

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