JAA instrument rating
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JAA instrument rating
What is the recommended reading (text books) for an European instrument rating? I am planning to do the IR in the future and It would be nice to begin slowly with the theory.
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I am suprised nobody has answered this yet.
The JAA IR must be done at a professional flight training organisation and these use certain training materials, so this is what you need to get because the exam questions will be constructed on the assumption you have studied from those materials.
The JAA question bank is also now available, so you can check you have got the right answers! Somebody told me that the place he studied at let him have access to the question bank for something like £50 for 3 months.
You will find resources at PPL/IR Europe.
The JAA IR must be done at a professional flight training organisation and these use certain training materials, so this is what you need to get because the exam questions will be constructed on the assumption you have studied from those materials.
The JAA question bank is also now available, so you can check you have got the right answers! Somebody told me that the place he studied at let him have access to the question bank for something like £50 for 3 months.
You will find resources at PPL/IR Europe.
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You will find that the course notes will provide the material you need. There are only three UK organisations doing the IR exams only so there is not much choice but all are by all accounts very good. If you really want to read ahead then your only choice is to get hold of the ATPL study guides, such as the Oxford Air Training manuals. They run at around £40 for each subject. The ATPL books have far more than you need if you are just doing the IR so you need to check the learning objectives to see what you need and what you can ignore. The sylabus may change significantly in the next few years as there is talk of the EASA IR having significantly reduced theoretical knowledge requirements.
In terms of the current requirements probably the ATPL books on Air Law and Met are the best places to start as the IR sylabus has a lot of both. Air Law is the most tedious of the subjects in my view; if you can manage that you can manage anything.
In terms of the current requirements probably the ATPL books on Air Law and Met are the best places to start as the IR sylabus has a lot of both. Air Law is the most tedious of the subjects in my view; if you can manage that you can manage anything.
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If you don't want to start hard-core studying just yet, but are just interested in the kind of stuff you can expect, the FAA makes two manuals on this subject available on their website for free.
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Have a look at JAA - Licensing: Learning Objectives IR (A) to check out the topics you have to know.
I used the distance learning course from Nordian. The books read like novels. They are less detailed then the Oxford manuals, but for the PPL/IR it is sufficiënt. A lot of the Law-course contains stuff you don't need to know (PICAO, ICAO, blah blah,...).
The most intense exam was Flight Ops/ Planning but you can't really study for that one. Meteo is of considerable size but I found it rather interesting.
You can find the Q&A databases for free on the net. But these are based on the ATPL exams. If you can manage these the actual exam will be a piece of cake.
Go for it and good luck !
I used the distance learning course from Nordian. The books read like novels. They are less detailed then the Oxford manuals, but for the PPL/IR it is sufficiënt. A lot of the Law-course contains stuff you don't need to know (PICAO, ICAO, blah blah,...).
The most intense exam was Flight Ops/ Planning but you can't really study for that one. Meteo is of considerable size but I found it rather interesting.
You can find the Q&A databases for free on the net. But these are based on the ATPL exams. If you can manage these the actual exam will be a piece of cake.
Go for it and good luck !
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Ah-ha!! I was clicking on the wrong URL in this thread 
Wonderful to know the president of ICAO is elected for 3 years. Always felt I needed to know that, when trying to outclimb some IMC at FL190, doing my best to pull +100fpm
Wonderful to know the president of ICAO is elected for 3 years. Always felt I needed to know that, when trying to outclimb some IMC at FL190, doing my best to pull +100fpm
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Wonderful to know the president of ICAO is elected for 3 years.
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Wonderful to know the president of ICAO is elected for 3 years. Always felt I needed to know that, when trying to outclimb some IMC at FL190, doing my best to pull +100fpm
