Instrument Flying

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Instrument Flying

• A Brief Overview

Written for the Notre Dame Pilot Initiative By
the Pilots of the University of Notre Dame
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Quote

• "There will be a new industry, and we are just
  now in the beginning. I will predict that in
  twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of
  thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of
  people, that fly and see that black sky."
• Burt Rutan

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Roadmap

• Overview
• Navigation
• Airways
• Holding Patterns
• Approaches
• Regulations

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Intro

• Purpose
• To fly in IMC
• Greater proficiency
• Privileges
• File/Fly an IFR flight plan
• Fly in IMC
• Fly in Class A
• Fly SVFR at night

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Intro

• Requirements
• 50 hours cross-country PIC
• 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument
• One cross country flight under IFR

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Intro

• Requirements
• 50 hours cross-country PIC
• 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument
• One cross country flight under IFR

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Basics

• Driving
• On-Ramp
• Highway
• Off-Ramp

• Flying
• SID (DP)
• Airway
• STAR

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Navigation

• Point-to-Point (Airway) Flying
• VOR
• Very-High Frequency Omnidirectional Range
• NBD
• Nondirectional Radio Beacon
• LORAN
• GPS
• Direct Routing
• GPS
• INS

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Airways

• Include airspace within 4nm of each side of
  centerline
• Victor
• Low Altitude 1,200AGL 17,999MSL
• Jet
• High Altitude 18,000MSL FL450

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Altitudes

• Minimum En Route Altitude (MEA)
• Ensures navigation signal reception and adequate
  obstacle clearance
• Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA)
• Provides obstacle clearance

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Holding Patterns

• Reasons
• ATC Delays
• Weather
• Airport Closed
• Parts

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Instrument Approaches

• Precision Lateral and Vertical Guidance
• ILS
• MLS
• PAR
• GPS
• Non-Precision Lateral Guidance Only
• LOC
• VOR
• NDB
• GPS
• SDF
• LDA
• ASR

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ILS

• Instrument Landing System
• Crown Jewel
• Components
• Localizer (lateral guidance)
• Glideslope (vertical guidance)
• Marker beacons

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ILS
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Instrument Approach Charts

• NACO (Government)
• Jeppesen

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Regulations

• Currency
• May not fly IFR or in IMC unless within the past
  6 months you have flown
• 6 instrument approaches
• Holding procedures
• Intercepting and tracking of courses
• If not met, you have 6 months to become current
• If 12 months pass, you must pass an Instrument
  Proficiency Check (IPC)
• Safety Pilot

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Communications Failure

• All flights should be planned in anticipation of
  two-way radio failure
• Route
• Assigned
• Vectored
• Expected
• Filed
• Altitude
• Assigned
• Minimum for Flight
• Expected

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Questions?