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IFR Flight Time Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) 50 hours cross country
as PIC (at least 10 in airplanes)
b) 40 hours Instrument (actual or simulated)
c) 15 hours instrument dual training from CFI (in same type)
d) 3 hours instrument training within 60 days prior to test
e) 250 NM cross-country conducted under IFR with 3 different types of
approaches
When is Instrument Rating required? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) On IFR Flight
Plan
b) In Class A Airspace
c) In weather conditions less than VFR
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,d) Under special VFR within Class B, C, D, and E surface areas between
sunset and sunrise (night)
Recency-of-experience requirements for IFR - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) 6
instrument approaches, holding patterns, and intercepting/tracking of
courses using navigation aids within the preceding six months.
b) 3 take-offs and landings within preceding 90 days (full stop at night) to
carry passengers
c) Biennial flight review
If instrument currency expires, what can be done to become current again?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Within six months of expiration, complete the
requirements (instrument approaches, holding patterns, and
intercepting/tracking courses) with a safety pilot in simulated IFR conditions
only. After that, must get a check with an examiner, authorized instructor,
or FAA-approved person.
Requirements of safety pilot - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) Possess a current medical
certificate
b) Possess a private pilot's license with appropriate category/class ratings
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,c) If flight is conducted on an IFR flight plan, safety pilot must have
instrument rating
Info a PIC must be familiar with before a flight - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All
available information, including:
a) weather reports and forecasts
b) fuel requirements
c) alternatives if flight cannot be completed as planned
d) known ATC delays
e) runaway lengths of intended use
f) takeoff and landing distances
What are fuel requirements for flight in IFR conditions? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔With alternate airport: enough fuel to fly to intended airport (holding
pattern included), then to alternate, then for 45 minutes after at cruise
speed
Without alternate airport: enough to fly to destination airport and land with
45 min fuel remaining
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, Before conducting IFR flight using GPS equipment for navigation, what
checks should be made? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) verify that GPS equipment is
properly installed and certified for planned IFR
b) verify that database is current (not expired)
c) review the GPS NOTAM/RAIM information for planned route of flight
Aircraft instruments/equipment required for IFR flight - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔G -
generator or alternator of sufficient capacity
R - radios for navigation
A - altimeter (sensitive)
B - ball (for turn coordination)
C - clock with sweep-second hand
A - attitude indicator
R - rate-of-turn coordinator
D - directional gyro
D - DME / RNAV (for flight at FL240 and above if VOR equipment
necessary for planned route)
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IFR Flight Time Requirements - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) 50 hours cross country
as PIC (at least 10 in airplanes)
b) 40 hours Instrument (actual or simulated)
c) 15 hours instrument dual training from CFI (in same type)
d) 3 hours instrument training within 60 days prior to test
e) 250 NM cross-country conducted under IFR with 3 different types of
approaches
When is Instrument Rating required? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) On IFR Flight
Plan
b) In Class A Airspace
c) In weather conditions less than VFR
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,d) Under special VFR within Class B, C, D, and E surface areas between
sunset and sunrise (night)
Recency-of-experience requirements for IFR - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) 6
instrument approaches, holding patterns, and intercepting/tracking of
courses using navigation aids within the preceding six months.
b) 3 take-offs and landings within preceding 90 days (full stop at night) to
carry passengers
c) Biennial flight review
If instrument currency expires, what can be done to become current again?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Within six months of expiration, complete the
requirements (instrument approaches, holding patterns, and
intercepting/tracking courses) with a safety pilot in simulated IFR conditions
only. After that, must get a check with an examiner, authorized instructor,
or FAA-approved person.
Requirements of safety pilot - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) Possess a current medical
certificate
b) Possess a private pilot's license with appropriate category/class ratings
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,c) If flight is conducted on an IFR flight plan, safety pilot must have
instrument rating
Info a PIC must be familiar with before a flight - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All
available information, including:
a) weather reports and forecasts
b) fuel requirements
c) alternatives if flight cannot be completed as planned
d) known ATC delays
e) runaway lengths of intended use
f) takeoff and landing distances
What are fuel requirements for flight in IFR conditions? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔With alternate airport: enough fuel to fly to intended airport (holding
pattern included), then to alternate, then for 45 minutes after at cruise
speed
Without alternate airport: enough to fly to destination airport and land with
45 min fuel remaining
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, Before conducting IFR flight using GPS equipment for navigation, what
checks should be made? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) verify that GPS equipment is
properly installed and certified for planned IFR
b) verify that database is current (not expired)
c) review the GPS NOTAM/RAIM information for planned route of flight
Aircraft instruments/equipment required for IFR flight - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔G -
generator or alternator of sufficient capacity
R - radios for navigation
A - altimeter (sensitive)
B - ball (for turn coordination)
C - clock with sweep-second hand
A - attitude indicator
R - rate-of-turn coordinator
D - directional gyro
D - DME / RNAV (for flight at FL240 and above if VOR equipment
necessary for planned route)
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