Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: jollyFE on March 16, 2012, 03:23:25 PM
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Any pilots that have their IFR rating got any advice for making the ground school any easier. Actual flying is ok, but the classroom is killing me.
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What's hard about it? A far as the flying, always ... again always as constantly... Always ask yourself ' what's next?'. You should constantly repeat yourself something like ' I'm waiting on 5 DME to go down to 1-400ft'. Best way not to fail a check ride by staying ahead of the plane. :old:
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It is absolutely critical to know the service volume of the various VORs. In gallons.
If its just a matter of not having things "click" that time will come. I remember being in a group IFR ground school and it was very dry material that made more sense the more we flew.
A big asset is to visit a TRACON and watch controllers work as you'll see a mix of traffic in arriving/departing/en route phases as well as learm what controllers can/can't do. Also what you can do to help them help you.
If you're hung up on how your altimeter works then go see the maintenance guys and play with the insides of one not being returned to service.
It depends on what you're struggling with but those come to mind as examples of things that helped me as well as my students.
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Remember to set the timer.....that I struggled with more than anything else in training. http://www.dauntless-soft.com/ Helped me tremendously with the written.
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Any pilots that have their IFR rating got any advice for making the ground school any easier. Actual flying is ok, but the classroom is killing me.
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Enjoy. It was my favorite rating by far (so far). As far as the ground stuff, most of it I thought of as tools I needed to keep myself safe. The more you know, the better off you are. You don't want to be the guy who actually loses comms and just happened to skip through that chapter. All the other advice you've seen so far is good. Go beyond service volumes, learn how the vor works. Etc...