Added Rating

[Pictreed]

Awesome, I feel like my instrument rating is official now.  I started checking this week since it's the six week mark and it showed up tonight. 

Mooney purchase will hopefully take place next month and it we be time to wade slowly into some IMC. 

[carusoam]

Congrats!

I would have believed you even without the screenshot.  

Proceed with the usual high level of caution for the new plane and new rating.

Best regards,

-a-

[Pictreed]

I don't know why, but until I saw it on line, it didn't sink in. 

Thanks for the word of caution. 

[laytonl]

Congratulations!  Lee

[chrisk]

Congrats! 

I don't know why it takes so long for the FAA to update the records.  I got my commercial on the 2nd of January.  The FAA website indicates they are about a month behind.. 

[Pictreed]

It looks like about 6 weeks to show up on their web site so we will see how long it takes to get the license in the mail.  My examiner said 6-8 weeks. 

[Robert C.]

Well done, congratulations!

Feels good, doesn't it

[MooneyPTG]

Congrats!!!

Hopefully I will be next. Been working on it for 2 years:)

Edited January 22, 2016 by MooneyPTG

[Pictreed]

22 hours ago, MooneyPTG said:

Congrats!!!

Hopefully I will be next. Been working on it for 2 years:)

Thanks everyone.  It feels good to share with those that the term IMC has some significance.

I'm glad that I was able to do it in 3 months but I went through an aviation degree program in '92 that included separate classes for weather, private, instrument, commercial, and CFI ground schools, as well as law, aerodynamics, and so on.  I also took 20 hours simulator training in an old Singer trainer at the college (very interesting piece of equipment). 

Upon returning to aviation in September, after a 18 year break, I was surprised I remembered some of it. 

The flight school I got the instrument from also has a simulator and I took the max amount allowed in it.  

The oral exam went well but I got a discountinuance in November due to weather so I spent the last two hours, we were supposed to be flying, talking with the examiner about Mooney airplanes.  I had no idea he owned one till someone told me that morning.  His Mooney was the first one I've ever flow.  That was just a couple weeks ago. It's a '65 E with all the body mods (maybe not the belly).  First autopilot too.  What a dream to fly!

The flight exam made use of navigation without ANY magenta lines which was fine for me since the only RNAV we had in the '90's was LORAN.  The worst part of my instrument training was learning the GPS so I downloaded the GNS 430 simulator along with MS Flight Sim.

During the checkride I couldn't figure out how to turn off the tracking on Foreflight so I just zoomed in to the profile view.  I memorized the hold as well so I didn't look at the plan view.  

I also studied a lot which included many of the King videos. Plus all the training I had for the Dispatch license (which I do not do for a living) helped a lot. 

I would be willing to go up with any of you guys that are preparing for the instrument exam and go over what to look for...just give me a shout.  Plus I get to ride in a Mooney...:-)  Or if you want to meet at the diner at T67 we can just talk about IFR.

Tim