IFR Flight: Instrument Practice for CFII | Let's Go Fly A Plane
0Originally streamed April 28, 2025
5:15 - Greetings
10:30 - Flight planning and briefing with SkyVector from KLBB (Lubbock, Texas) to KPVW (Plainview, Texas) for VOR 4 and back for LOC BC 35L
1:06:06 - IRL storytime (short-/soft-field practice with pre-checkride private student)
1:12:12 - IRL storytime (applying for pilot job, gah)
1:18:44 - IRL storytime (continued)
1:24:00 - IRL storytime (personal IFR flight with unexpected ATC interactions + miscommunication led to post-solo private student missing lesson)
1:33:50 - Preflight
2:11:30 - Takeoff and engaging autopilot
2:21:10 - Requesting approach ATC practice
2:24:10 - 10 miles from initial approach fix procedures
2:25:37 - IAF #1
2:32:15 - Minimums and landing
2:43:50 - Takeoff and engaging autopilot #2
2:54:25 - Requesting approach ATC practice
3:00:25 - 10 miles from initial approach fix procedures
3:04:05 - IRL storytime (cancelled flights: lesson with home airport private student & subsequent passenger attempts + ground lessons: checkride ground prep with pre-checkride private student)
3:07:10 - IAF #2
3:09:17 - IRL storytime (continued)
3:13:23 - IRL storytime (continued)
3:20:15 - Minimums and landing
3:31:41 - IRL storytime (continued + ground lesson with sleepy post-solo private student)
3:38:33 - Debrief with LittleNavMap
3:46:36 - IRL storytime (touch-and-gos for different students + personal IFR flight cloud chasing! & meeting pilot and his plane + ground reference maneuver refresh with post-solo private student)
3:55:28 - IRL storytime (ground, refresh, & above the clouds with home airport private student)
4:02:10 - IRL storytime (pre-checkride student: cancelled solo for aircraft not starting - got maintenance for bad mag + crosswind patternwork solo instead of lesson + lesson for maneuver comfort building for solo practice + contact with examiner for student's upcoming checkride & other prep ++ upcoming: starting new student + getting multi hours)
4:25:20 - IRL storytime (simulator hours are a headache + friendstructor wanting to be a DPE + potentially converting constant-speed 172 owner's paper logbooks to digital)