IFR Check Ride

[VAndersen]

Took and passed the check ride today...........VERY happy to have this done. It was a lot of fun, but I was definitely getting tired of training for it. Oral went great and the actual flight was almost a non-event after all the prep I did. My greatest fear was doing it on Ground-Hog Day.....I hope I don't wake up tomorrow and have to do it all again!

 

Vincent

[jelswick]

Outstanding and Congratulations Vincent!  You'll be happy countless times in the future that you did this.  I know I was getting very frustrated not being allowed to look out the windows for nearly a year since I did my training almost exclusively on weekends over close to a year, but the safety you've now gained and ability to fly when you otherwise might not have been able to will be very just reward.  As my instructor told me, you'll never be better prepared for IFR than the day you pass your checkride, so stay current, stay safe and enjoy this added freedom you've just gained!

[DanM20C]

Congratulations!  The anticipation of a check ride is always worse than the actual check ride.  You will sleep good tonight!

Stay sharp, stay safe, and enjoy the new utility of your Mooney.  You just added a great speed mod to your plane, not waiting for that 600ft overcast to clear up.

Dan

 

 

[N33GG]

Congrats!!!!

[eldeano]

No more life through foggles! Congratulations!

[MooneyMitch]

Awesome Vincent!  We are very much looking forward to completing our training as well.  

[231Pilot]

Congratulations Vince!  I still remember mine, and how hard I worked before and during the ride.  I know you are excited and feeling really happy.  File IFR and fly in the system as often as possible, even on VFR days.  Keep the rust off.  Oh yeah, the first time you are single pilot in real IMC, with no instructor or instrument pilot aboard you will be a little nervous....you'll do OK.  Congratulations again.

[smitty9006]

Congratulations Vincent! 

[mooney231]

Congratulations, the instrument rating checkride is definitely one of the hardest I have found and most rewarding to pass!!

[fantom]

Well done, Vincent, now use it! Don't throw the foggles away...you'll need them for practice.

[thinwing]

  awesome job....ditto the advice on filing everywhere so the system become second nature,also the siskous are an ice factory...kpc

[AustinChurch]

Congrats!  I've been working on mine off and on for a few months now but frustration is setting in due to the lack of time and consistency.  I think I'm going to take a week off of work and finish up with GATTS and their 7 day course.

[Hank]

I worked on mine for several months and was almost checkride-ready when the plane developed an electrical problem. Three months later, I got to resharpen my quickly-deteriorated skills and do lots of studying again. Taking the actual practical exam was a bit of an anti-climax, as I had worked so hard for so long getting ready for it. [i was chewed out for ugly holding patterns in a 40-knot crosswind under the hood . . . ] Everything seemed so easy, even the veering, gusty crosswind and the circle-to-land on a 40' wide strip that I couldn't see when the DE told me to remove my foggles. [it was really close on the right side; he could see it, but I couldn't, so I circled left and landed.]

Getting that rating felt even better than getting my PPL in the first place, even if the first few flights afterwards were non-events. My first flight that I logged any [0.1] actual was climbing through a scattered cloud that I normally would have dodged around, but hey, I'm on an IFR flight plan so they expect me to go straight. It was the first cloud I'd seen the inside of in several months, and at 500 fpm, those 2000' took a whole 4 minutes. Duly noted.

You will get lots of good use from your IR, whether you finish up quick or "traditional." The important parts are to not let the written test expire, and to make the DE happy.

Good luck, and fly safe!

[Lionudakis]

Congrats. !!!!! I look forward to starting, soon I hope.