| If you have your private pilot's license and are looking | | | | 2. It can save you time. |
| to earn an Instrument Rating, then it might be in your | | | | IFR flight simulator programs can save time. It is simpler |
| best interests to get your hands on a good IFR flight | | | | to turn on the PC and start up your simulator program, |
| simulator for your home computer. Here are 3 reasons | | | | and start flying right away. A real flight lesson, on the |
| why: | | | | other hand, involves the extra time of refueling and |
| 1. It can save you money. | | | | preflighting the aircraft. |
| Leveraging an IFR flight simulator can significantly | | | | Poor weather can delay your progress in obtaining |
| reduce the cost of your instrument training and your | | | | your Instrument Rating and can slow you down. |
| instrument proficiency checks. | | | | Weather phenomena such as rain, snow, fog, overcast |
| Since the FAA allows pilots to log as many as 20 | | | | clouds, and high winds are grounds for cancellation of |
| hours of instruction with a simulator as credit towards | | | | flight lessons. You don't have to "cancel" any lessons if |
| your instrument rating, then you would be a fool not to | | | | you are flying a simulator instead. |
| take advantage of the opportunity as a cost savings | | | | 3. You can get more practice. |
| measure. | | | | |