| If you are looking to fast track and expedite your | | | | time toward your IFR training requirements, but the |
| instrument flight training in order to obtain your IFR | | | | point is that you get to spend more time practicing the |
| (Instrument Flight Rules) rating as quickly as possible, | | | | concepts the instructor taught you.) |
| what can you do that does not require you to break | | | | 3. By being able to practice more often with an IFR |
| the bank? | | | | simulator, you will be able to master the concepts |
| Sure, there are many of those "IFR boot camp" | | | | more quickly. This translates into the need for less |
| courses that cram all of your IFR training in a span of | | | | repetition, less review, and fewer "remedial flight |
| a couple of weeks. But that can be very costly. | | | | lessons". You will be able to demonstrate to your |
| Fortunately, there is a more cost effective way to | | | | instructor your mastery over the concepts more |
| expedite your flight training: | | | | quickly. |
| Make use of an IFR simulator. | | | | 4. Actual IFR flight training must be performed in VFR |
| An IFR simulator offers many advantages: | | | | conditions. Therefore, you lose time when the weather |
| | | | outside does not cooperate. A flight simulator enables |
| 1. If you have an IFR simulator on your home computer, | | | | you to keep on practicing, so that you aren't |
| you have the freedom and flexibility to practice on it | | | | squandering your downtime by not flying. |
| as much as you want, as often as you want, any time | | | | 5. Today's modern IFR flight simulator software is so |
| at your own convenience and leisure. | | | | realistic that there is virtually no difference between |
| 2. You have the liberty to practice maneuvers on your | | | | flying a real aircraft while wearing a view limiting device |
| own with an IFR simulator, without the need for a flight | | | | or flying the aircraft in a simulator. So you are not short |
| instructor to be present. (It won't count as loggable | | | | changing yourself in any way. |