Ifr For Simulator Pilots

Confidently fly your airplane in a simulator using real flight lessons for IFR training.

What you'll learn

Basic techniques of flying using only aircraft instruments

Perform IFR procedures including ILS, VORs, NDB, holding patterns, and GPS charts

How to make and file IFR plans

Communications radio-work for the IFR sim pilot

Detailed lessons on the use of each instrument and each aircraft

Requirements

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024 (other sims will do, but you can't submit homework

You can fly your plane in VFR conditions already (casual flying while looking out the window)

You have taken the Beginner course.

You need the basic stick or yoke for flying.

Description

This series of lectures and demonstrations will teach you the knowledge and skills needed to confidently fly your airplane using IFR rules. This enables you to fly any plane through almost any kind of weather and fly like the pros do. We focus on the Cessna 172 with a G1000 panel in MSFS (FS2020), although any simulator and airplane could work. You will eventually transition up to faster planes including the Beech Bonanza, The Cessna Citation Mustang TwinJet, and the CJ4. This real-world curriculum starts with holding patterns. First without wind correction nor any kind of fix. Then we add more complexity to the scenario. Holding with wind correction, holding on NDBs, VORs, VOR intercepts and GPS fixes. Moving on to learning chart reading and interpretation, we learn about approaches to airports and missed approaches. Transitioning to deeper topics, we cover more details about SIDs and STARs, complete with explanations and demonstrations. IFR radio communications are broken down to be easily understood. Using the G1000 glass cockpit, found in many planes both in real life and in the simulator, you learn to manage all aspects of the panel along the way. We eventually move on to faster planes that still have the G1000 such as the Bonanza and the Cessna Citation Mustang. As a final tip in the course, we learn the basics of an FMS system in the CJ4 twinjet.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Demonstration: Startup, Runup, Practice area and HASEL check

Lecture 3 Lesson 1: Standard Rate Turns

Lecture 4 Demonstration - Standard Rate Turns

Section 2: Module 2: NDBs & Standard Rate Turns

Lecture 5 NDBs & Standard Rate Turns

Lecture 6 Module 2 - Demonstration: NDBs and Holding at NDBs

Section 3: Module 3: Holding Pattern Entry Procedures

Lecture 7 Entry - Standard Rate Turns

Lecture 8 Demo - Module 3 - Standard Rate Turns

Section 4: Module 4: Holding Patterns with Wind

Lecture 9 Holding Patterns with Wind Correction Techniques

Lecture 10 IFR-Demonstration-Holding Patterns with Wind Correction

Section 5: Module 5: VOR Navigation

Lecture 11 Tune, identify, and fly in IFR using VOR stations.

Lecture 12 VOR Demonstration

Lecture 13 IFR-Demo-Module-5-172

Lecture 14 IFR-Demo-Module-5-G1000

Section 6: Module 6: Hold on a VOR Intercept

Lecture 15 Module 6: Hold on a VOR, a VOR Intercept, and DME

Lecture 16 Demonstration: VOR or DME Hold

Section 7: Module 7: The Instrument Landing System - ILS

Lecture 17 The Instrument Landing System - ILS

Lecture 18 Demonstration - ILS

Section 8: Module 8: Detailed ILS Information

Lecture 19 Missed Approach, Back Course and more details on Approach Plates

Lecture 20 IFR-Demonstration - Missed Approach

Lecture 21 IFR-Demo=Module 8 - Executing a Back Course Approach (unpublished and published)

Section 9: Module 9: Departure Procedures (DP) and ATC Radio-work

Lecture 22 Published Departure Procedures and ATC Radio-work

Lecture 23 Module-9-Demonstration-DPs

Lecture 24 ATC Communications - IFR Clearances

Section 10: Module 10: IFR Flight Plans

Lecture 25 IFR Flight Plans

Lecture 26 IFR-Demonstration Using SkyVector for Flight Planning

Section 11: Module 11: Weather Forcasting for the IFR Pilot

Lecture 27 Retrieving and deciphering METARs, TAFs, & NOTAMS

Lecture 28 IFR-Demonstration of the tools to retrieve and decipher METARs and TAFs.

Section 12: Module 12: GPS Navigation

Lecture 29 GPS Navigation

Lecture 30 IFR-Demonstration-Module 12A - A short flight

Lecture 31 IFR-Demonstration-Module 12B - A longer flight

Section 13: Module 13: The DME Arc & Circle Landing Approaches

Lecture 32 DME Arc & Circle Landing Approaches

Lecture 33 IFR-Demonstration: Executing a DME ARC published approach and a "Circle to Land"

Section 14: Module 14: Your IFR Check Ride

Lecture 34 Planning, preparation, and criteria for your check-ride flight.

Section 15: Module 15: Additional Basic Tools & Orientation Videos

Lecture 35 Using Little Nav Map for Planning, Tracking, and making Flight Plans

Lecture 36 A G1000 Orientation Video for Beginners

Section 16: Module 16: Moving up to Bigger Airplanes

Lecture 37 IFR Course: Moving to Bigger Airplanes

Simulation pilots using Microsoft Flight Simulator (or other sims) who wish to transition to flying in instrument conditions like the airlines.,Anyone interested in the procedures, radio-work, chart explanations of an IFR course.,Graduates of the Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced courses.