IFR Lesson #16
At this point in my IFR training, I can get the aircraft in the air, navigate to where I want to go and hold in place there, but I can’t land. At least not if the weather is overcast such that I don’t have visual on the airport from my cruise altitude. So now that we’ve finished up with holds, we are moving onto approaches, which will allow me to follow a procedure down to, hopefully, a safe landing at the desired airport.
We did a handful of approaches at two different airports this afternoon: the VOR 25 at Calgary International (CYYC) and the VOR A at Empress (CYEA). Like all the training thus far, the first time doing VOR approaches is a bit of a gongshow. Everything seems to come too fast, mostly because I’m too slow. I’m too slow with FITS check, too slow with my CRATOG check and too slow trying to get the aircraft settled down and ready for the approach. But it was good to be done holds. Holds are brutally boring. At least I find them as such.
Sim Time: 1.5 hrs
