Teaching IFR
 

Hi all,

I hope I'm in the right place to ask this. I was wondering how IFR is taught in countries where cloud does not exist, E.G. not the UK. This is just a general question as I have seen on TV a student with, what looks like, a KFC bucket on their head that has been blanked out.
Is this the standard method or was i watching a clip from 20 years ago.

Many thank in advance.

Paul

By wearing those funky "IFR simulating glasses" or simply covering the windshield.

IFR is a set of rules that has nothing to do with cloud! Instrument flying can be taught using simulators and mechanical devices to prevent the student looking out however; you do not need to be in IMC to teach instrument skills, in fact its better not to be in IMC..

We use a device known as a hood in this part of the world mate.

http://www.tagpilotsupply.com/Produc...ew/G-M/H2G.jpg

I made my own.













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Thank you, Whopity, this needs banging into people's heads.

Unfortunately, this seems to have crept up as a confusion recently, what with the requirement in some places for so many hours 'IFR flight' to be able to teach flight by sole reference to instruments. Unless I've mis-interpreted stuff I've read recently, in some places you have to have an IR in order to be able to fly in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules. That's in a country that's notoriously flat.

Anyhow, we use a hood; rather have screens but not an option for us. We have excellent RADAR cover and no airspace issues so we can go cloud flying for greater realism. Using a map or similar to cover the windscreen is a no-no as it obscures the instructor/safety pilot's view.

TOO

That is now the case throughout Europe, some of which is not so flat.

Is this true? I've always thought (in the UK at any rate) that anyone could fly IFR as long as they met the restrictions of their license.

A pilot with an EASA Licence may not fly IFR unless they also have a valid IR of some description.
The holder of a UK national PPL/CPL/ATPL may fly IFR according to the "restrictions of their license" - basically outside CAS and in VMC.
HOWEVER this would only apply when flying Annexe II aircraft as the Licence is only valid for LAPL privileges when flying Annexe I (EASA) aircraft.

As has been the case for JAA licences since 1999!
A common misconception; since 1999 a new restriction was applied to JAA licences requiring compliance with JAR-FCL 1.175 which stated: Para (b) included National ratings such as the IMC so long as they were confined to the State of issue. Para (a) was transferred to EASA but para (b) was not, hence all the issues with the IMC rating.

Thanks for that. So just to put me straight as an EASA PPL holder with an IR(R) I can fly IFR in the UK only?

Correct.

IN2015-009

Thanks for that.