| Do not be afraid to get your instrument rating, there | | | | without him and actually use my instrument rating. |
| are hundreds of pilots that are content with flying on | | | | The currency requirements for holding onto your |
| severely clear days. That is just fine, for some people, | | | | instrument rating are you must do six instrument |
| but for me I like to get somewhere regardless the | | | | approaches, with holds and intercepting and tracking |
| whether conditions. Once you get instrument rated you | | | | courses within the past six months. Now that does not |
| will truly feel like a professional aviator. In my opinion it | | | | mean you lose it after six months, that just means you |
| is the most challenging certificate to obtain. But once | | | | can not do any IFR flights into IMC (instrument |
| you get that rating nothing can stop you short of a | | | | meteorological conditions) until you get those six |
| severe thunderstorm. | | | | approaches done, you have six more months to do so. |
| My advice though is to make sure you get an | | | | After those six months (which it should never get to) |
| instructor that is not afraid to get up there and fly in | | | | you must pretty much re-learn everything and do |
| some clouds and not just under the hood (limited | | | | another check ride, which you do not want to put |
| viewing device). My instructor would call me every | | | | yourself through again. This rating will be a tough one |
| time the clouds were right for an actual instrument | | | | but if you got your private license you can defiantly get |
| flight. He did that for one reason and one reason alone, | | | | your instrument. Good luck and make sure to stay in |
| that's so I would not be afraid to get in the plane | | | | the clouds. |