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Old 31st Aug 2012, 18:55
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JohnDixson
 
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Tactical IFR Rating

SAS or some of the younger guys better answer this as to the details.

All I can add is that beginning in 1966, the new pilots right out of Ft Rucker had this training, and from personal observation, the training in basic instrument flying was very sound. If one had a new kid for a night flight, no moon and iffy weather, and assuming it was ash and trash or something non-adversarial in nature, so to speak, you put the new guy in the right seat and treated the situation as if you had an audio-command auto-pilot. My sense was that it was the basic IFR flight tasks from a standard ticket type of training syllabus, but less the civil nav and approach tasks.

Discussions about this rating tended to be loud and polarized, in my failing memory.

Thanks,
John
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