Saving money and reviewing flying lessons with less stress at home!

In this episode, Steve takes his home sim IFR training to a new level by recreating exactly what happened in real life with his instructor Dennis, on his home sim. Meanwhile, longtime Flight Chops supporter and mentor Jim explains how he got proficient on the G1000 by practising at home on his $10k sim, and why he now wants it to find a new home in the Flight Chops Community!

Massive thanks Jim for giving one of you his $10,000 home sim set up!

And Sporty’s stepped up to cover the shipping!

Learn more about the biggest Flight Chops giveaway ever here:

https://flightchops.com/2019/10/15/10k-flight-sim-giveaway-flight-chops-fan-pays-it-forward/

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Written test was complete, so he couldn’t punch me in the face

In this instalment of the IFR Vlog, Flight Chops and his family are guests in Jim Stroh’s Cirrus SR22T GTS while he prepares for his Instrument Rating. The pilots work through Jim’s personal clearance checklist and flight planner. Luckily, Steve made good on his word and completed the written test before meeting Jim again, so he was spared getting punched in the face

EDIT: By popular demand – here’s the link to Jim’s IFR clearance / Flight planner template form.

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Get caught up with this special VLOG series that gets into all the nitty-gritty details as Steve goes after his Instrument Rating:

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The 2nd leg of this trip was my busiest 15 mins in the air

THANKS To Erik for this one! He said timing is great regarding my edit nearly a year later Erik has been an very active member of the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association “COPA”. They have Their annual meeting and tradeshow coming up soon.

This year he is a volunteer working on COPA’s annual meeting and tradeshow this October in Las Vegas, and invites anyone who wants to come to register to attend. Check out their links in the description below. Erik would appreciate it!

Link to COPA

And

Check out their annual meeting, you can register and attend if you like!

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I can’t wait to find out which viewer will relive this episode!

An additional note from Jim about TFRs:

One important fact to make known on TFR’s is NEVER TAKE A REPETITIVE TFR FOR GRANTED.  In other words just because the POTUS TFR is the same every two weeks when he arrives in Palm Beach for the weekend, one had better read the details just in case something changes.  AOPA does a great job of mapping a TFR to their members location and sends out emails with a description of the TFR.  I’m not sure what the distance is before an email is sent however I receive a message from AOPA for all the POTUS and VIP TFR’s in Florida.

The main reason we went IFR instead of VFR: ICAO VFR flight plans must include in the transmitted line 18 “other information” section: DVFR/estimated United States ADIZ penetration at time (UTC) and estimated point of penetration (latitude/longitude or fix-radial-distance).

More info about Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ): 

Entering, Exiting and Flying in United States Airspace

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