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Instrument practical training material / book

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I am looking for suggestions on practical training material. I want to maximize my time in the air with my instructor as well as have practical triggers when I chair fly at home.  My instructor has given me some great ideas, some stick and some just don’t help me. For example, my instructor does the mental math of calling out 800 to go, 700 to go. I spend too much time tripping up on the math. Instead I use a technique from M0A and call 13 for 2, 12 for 2,...  this works much better for me. My instructor is very supportive and encourages me to find the technique that works. Which is why I am asking for links or recommendations on practical training material.  

 

I am not looking for written or oral testing material, really the mechanics of instrument airwork.  A mix of tips and best procedures.  

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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  1. KDS on Aug 05, 2018

    It’s not a “technique” publication, but a very useful book that many instrument students never even hear about is the Instrument Procedures Handbook published by the government. It is FAA-H-8083-16. If you’re not familiar with it, you definitely should give it a try.

    As far as techniques, I think the most critical one is to think “what is next and then what comes after that?” Always be two steps ahead mentally.

    I’m probably going to show my age with this suggestion, but I like to use countdown timers. I know that nowadays everyone just follows a purple line and reads numbers off a screen, but if you’re shooting an approach that has the missed approach point three minutes and seventeen seconds past the final approach fix, it helps keep me from messing up. When I learned to fly, we had to hold that number in our head, look at an analog clock that couldn’t be reset, and do the math of how many minutes and where the second hand would be when we hit the MAP. Very error prone. Clocks with second hands that could be started were a step forward, but being able to key in the time on a digital device and then just hit the start button at the MAP point took a lot of the work out of my already saturated brain and let me think about other things.

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