Getting My Instrument Rating From Start to Finish

Fantastic video - thank you for sharing! Super cool

Good job, Mike. It would also be VERY helpful if you would make a video going over the oral part of the check ride.

Man, I have started my IFR training, and it is off the chain hard. I also did my ground and got it out of the way and made 87% using Shepherd air and Kings for my endorsement.

Just want to make a comment here on holding procedures. Today it is fairly simple because most GPS is have the holding pattern, already drawn in a magenta format, and all you have to do is follow it. Most of it is visualization, but the FAA requires you to think and used the proper determination for the entry based on your heading and the outbound leg. Once you get familiar with the location of your aircraft and how you’re heading toward the hold, you will automatically visualize the proper entry. On that note, I have seen the Garman where it is evident. It should be a teardrop entry select a parallel and visa-versa.

Welcome to the world of instrument flying. If you’re an area of a country like me, it is almost impossible to keep current unless you use a simulator. Out here in the Midwest to either deal with thunderstorms in the summer or ice in the winter. An instrument rating is great for coastal states that have fog and low visibility, but other parts of the country one becomes a pilot who starts chasing bad weather instead of good weather. My next step after all these years to try to become a CFI. I think that’s gonna be the toughest rating to get since there’s so many knowledge based areas, including fundamentals of instruction. Learning to fly up to the commercial maneuvers in the right seat is going to be challenging enough. I’ve been flying off and on for 40 years now.

thanks for your video . i Just statrted IFR Training and your video is very helpful!!

Mike please I mean it you are the one who expired me am to take everything serious am getting ready I will reach out to you.

This was a great video. Thank you for making it. Love the advice on holdings and knowing your equipment. Keep up making great content👍👍👍

Got my instrument rating and still never flown in IMC. Seems nerve racking to fly IMC by myself. So even though I have my instrument rating, I am in no way an instrument pilot

Hi Mike. Great vid. How long did the ground school take you to finish?

What brand is your view limiting device and where purchased ?

Awesome content!
Regarding some of the requirements, for instance point number 2: Over 50hrs PIC x-country time, is that the minimum amount when starting the IR training? Or at the end of training once one is about to take the check ride?

Very expensive too lol

Awesome video man!

About to start my IFR adventure. Great video!

So proud of ya Mike. You're living the dream. Im so glad you have your instrument ticket! Congratulations!

Thank you so much for the video. I am starting on my IFR training and this was very helpful to figure out what is needed!

great Video young man, Love the content looking to get a discovery flight in soon, and getting start on my flight training

Private was way harder than instrument for me, I think if you last a couple years without studying you would have to re learn everything, but in most accelerate programs ur knowledge stays consistent making instrument a breeze

Great video Mike! Whats next for you? Multi?

Thanks Mike! I’m about to start my instrument rating. Very helpful. 🙏

My struggle in the journey to get my instrument rating is being able to program the IFR navigator. I have a GNX-375 which has the usual Garmin menu and I am assuming behaves much like the GTN650. I can't find much info on how to program the varying step during the flight plan and approaches... Can anyone point me to any videos on this? Thanks!

Congrats! Working on my IFR rating now. Way harder than PPL for sure.

There is an even faster accelerated program. Do the ground school and pass the test on your own. Then PIC (Professional instrument courses) set up a time/day for the checkride with a specific DPE, then arranged for a CFII to come to my house with the simulator. Trained one on one, all day every day until done. Took 10 days. I took one day off in the middle for a break.

I am about to start. Glass cockpit or 6 pac?

Awesome video with great tips. Congrats on your new Instrument rating brother. I did instrument training part 141 which has slightly different requirements. I’m currently Comm Multi Instr. What a journey.

Congratulations Mike! Also, I wish you and your entire family an extremely blessed and merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!

Thanks my man Mike, I am about to start instrument rating now, it is going to be some work 👌 but I appreciate the insight. You are doing great bro.

Been watching you for awhile, if I were younger I would go for license 😁 . I will just keep enjoying as a passenger. Keep up the good work, and stay safe , love your channel . Knowledge is amazing, now undersand more of whats going on when taking flghts now. When are you gonna fly one of those big babies out of Hartsfield ? 😁

Great advice👍 Thanks

You didn’t include 141 rules. Your quoting part 61. For 141 there isn’t a xcountry hours requirement and it’s only 35 hours instead of 40.

Not sure how much actual imc time you have..but make sure to get as much of it as you can safely..it is a night and day difference from being under the hood..

Nice job…I started my training last October for my PPL. In eleven months I did IFR, single engine commercial and multi engine commercial. I got to 600 hours of flying and got a job with a charter company..keep grinding bro..

Great job Mike !!
My father was an instructor many many years ago retired 7 years ago with 42 years of flying under his belt still has his first log book last aircraft flown at UPS was the md-11 and total flight hours 28,000,737 hours.
Has a excellent retirement package and he now literally works one day at Taco Bell as a manager and the other days he drives the school bus in Tennessee just to do something LOL

Congrats. Working on mine. Did you take ground check ride before you did flying portion or was it all on the same day?

Congrats Mike! You deserve it!

Congratulations. As a flight instructor I maintain that a private pilot with an instrument rating is a safer pilot than a commercial pilot without one.

Thanks Mike once again good information.

Congrats Mike very very cool that you got it very rewarding .

Thanks for a very clear explanation. The process might be slightly different in the UK, but I'm sure the content and process is similar. IR is a big boost to your capability, so congratulations Mike!

I just passed my instrument checkride on Saturday. I followed much the same procedure except the accelerated training, as I couldn't dedicate that much time. I definitely agree to do the ground school first. I went through the material once or twice, then went through it again as I was doing my flight training. That way I could ask questions as we went. Then about halfway through the flight training I did the written. Once I scheduled my checkride (the earliest I could get was 2 months out), I accelerated my flight training as I then had a hard date to finish my training.

Congratulations Mike! The instrument rating is the best rating to get as far as making you a better, safer pilot. Your hard work will pay dividends for years to come as you continue to gain experience.

Merry Christmas Mike: OK I'll say it...
Do you think that when a Private pilot gets Instrument rated, that it should specify the instruments.
*Honeywell
*Collins
*Garmin
* Avidyne
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You almost say it big 10ench d👀👀😅😅😅😅

Thanks 👍 & congratulations 🎉

Hey buddy!! Very very nice. Please keep coming out with more vlogs!!

Congratulations just curious how many hours do you have now I’m getting prepared to start mine in the spring I have had my license for 3 1/2 years now and have over 750 hours but ready for the next level

Congrats Mike on your instrument ticket just curious about John Harvey and Jeff Kerlo with Revelaero in Jasper Georgia do you have an update on their aircraft the voodoo jet powered version ?

how old, is too old to learn to fly? ill be 49 in march of next year.

As a high IQ individual and an IQ specialist with 8 years of studying in Singapore and a net worth of 32 million I can say that flying a little plane is statistically more dangerous than surfing, scuba diving, horse back riding and biking. No deicing or two engines …not safe and considered pinged in the 5 laws of stupidity