IFR Training In Canada

After 13 years of VFR flying in Canada, I decided to get my Instrument Rating. I had two main reasons behind this decision: I wanted to learn something new and I wanted the added flexibility an instrument rating gives you.

I met with the Chief Flight Instructor at the Calgary Flying Club in the summer of 2005 and at that time picked up all the information, books and older copies of maps and CAPS that I’d require. In October 2005 I started the actual training. Just over a year later, in November 2006, I did my instrument rating flight test and passed.

Below is a list of links to my entries regarding various lessons throughout my training. It was my original intent to document every lesson I did, however, a lack of time has prevented me from doing that. If I manage to find some time to spare, I will try to eventually update this list with the missing entries.

Entries: (newest entries last)

  1. IFR Preparation
  2. Introduction to the Simulator (lesson #1)
  3. Timed Turns & Rated Ascents/Descents (lesson #2)
  4. Navigation Aids (lesson #3)
  5. Lesson 4
  6. Lesson 5
  7. Lesson 6
  8. Lesson 7
  9. Lesson 8
  10. Lesson 9
  11. Lesson 10
  12. Lesson 11
  13. Lesson 12
  14. NDB Holds w/ Wind (lesson #13)
  15. NDB Holds w/ Wind (lesson #14; aka #13 continued)
  16. Approach Briefing (lesson #15)
  17. VOR Approaches (lesson #16)
  18. VOR Approaches (lesson #17)
  19. VOR Approaches (lesson #18)
  20. NDB Approaches (lesson #19)
  21. Localizer Approaches (lesson #20)
  22. Localizer/BC Approaches (lesson #21)
  23. ILS Approaches; DME arcs (lesson #22)
  24. IFR Flight Planning (lesson #23)
  25. INRAT Exam
  26. IFR Simulated Cross Country (lesson #24)
  27. IFR Cross Country #1 (lesson #25)
  28. IFR Cross Country #2 (lesson #26)
  29. IFR Cross Country #3 (lesson #27)
  30. IFR Cross Country #4 (lesson #28)
  31. IFR Pre-Flight Test
  32. IFR Flight Test

Current status: training completed (12 Nov 2006)
Sim Time: 22.6 hrs
Flying Time: 15.0 hrs (10.9 hrs hood; 0.8 hrs actual)

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:14 Posted in

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  1. By Tim Christie 8 months later:


    I'm actually commenting on a different blog post (regarding fplan), but comments are closed for that one. How did you create your own database, and could I look at both the original text and the binary file? I can't figure out how to get paddb to work for the life of me, nor what kind of data it's even expecting.

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