Bow’eth Down’eth in awe before me!
 

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Right then, I’m off the smite those low ceilings and cumulus clouds that used to make my life ****. Now what was that little ditty again? Turn, Time Twist, , , ah bollox I’ve forgotten already :ugh:

Oh Sky God did you hammer out your IR in a twin or face the grim reality and suspicion of the examiners in a 'mere' single? Whatever the case kudos, and congrats... I have always suspected that the powers that be are even tougher on testing those private mortals who would adorn the sky in IMC conditions with an IR...

(Edited to say- I speak from the UK perspective. In the US my appreciation is that folks want you to fly and fly safely and thus are keen that you expedite your IR accordingly).

Caco

How many packets of Cheerios did you go through before you found your 'lightweight IR"?

:p

pb84,

Congratulations. Very well done. I had a Canadian IR (now lapsed), which I acquired in my mid-40s. Even though I had had previous instrument experience, including a PFIG in a UAS, I found it the most intellectually difficult exercise I had ever undertaken, including physics at university.

I did mine in a 172 and it was clear that the standards and expectations of both my instructor and examiner were exactly the same as if I had been doing it in a Boeing - "4200' please, not 4220'". My examiner was an ex-CF104 pilot and although he was slightly bored by the pedestrian performance, he was very keen to make sure I was able to meet the standards. One of his techniques was to engage me in conversation to see if I could still keep up with my situational awareness.

As I sit here in the flat in Santa Monica looking at a bookcase full of biographies of folks like Chuck Yeager, Emelia Earhart, Wayne Handley, Patty Wagstaff, Sparky Imeson, Clay Lacy and many others, my gaze shifts to an unrestricted view of the huge armada of arriving commercial aviation turning downwind at the Santa Monica VOR for LAX, the vast majority of which are piloted by folks with the same FAA issued IR I've just got. I then look down the beach a few miles to the southwest and see those massive Boeings lumbering out on departure over the shoreline one after the other, all day long, heading for all corners of the globe and I wonder how the foxtrot can these guys and girls pull all this off with “lightweight” ratings?

Gutsy buggers those Yanks :ok:

GPS approach for Forfar?:ok:

D.O.

Nah, too easy. NDB for sure, plenty on e bay...

Well done Piperboy, see you in the airways..