Some Resources I used to help pass Inst. checkride

[KB4]

Hope this helps other MS'ers. 

Andy Munnis YT video   By far the best video I found.

 

FlyM8.com free IFR Charts videos

Pilots Cafe study guide not complete but good start.  Was free resource, but when I checked the link, appears to be a pay what you feel is fair now.

https://pilotscafe.com/IFR-quick-review-guide/

Sporty's video series on Ipad.

I downloaded all the handbooks, supplements, TPP, IFR Low/High Legends, Regs... ect on the Ipad. 

I read through the PTS so I knew what to expect and special emphasis areas (these are freebies cause you know they will be tested).  It has a good checklist for all the items you need to bring.  I brought a small printer along as a backup and needed it to print at the end.  

 

[201er]

Cool. But you don’t have to look so far for freebies. The FAA has everything you need to know available for free already... and they make the tests.

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/media/FAA-H-8083-15B.pdf

 

Edited March 16, 2021 by 201er

[toto]

The FAA publications really are underrated.  They're quite good, and ultimately they're the source material (at least in part) for all of the expensive third-party test prep courses. 

[dominikos]

On 3/15/2021 at 10:27 AM, KB4 said:

Hope this helps other MS'ers. 

Andy Munnis YT video   By far the best video I found.

 

FlyM8.com free IFR Charts videos

Pilots Cafe study guide not complete but good start.  Was free resource, but when I checked the link, appears to be a pay what you feel is fair now.

https://pilotscafe.com/IFR-quick-review-guide/

Sporty's video series on Ipad.

I downloaded all the handbooks, supplements, TPP, IFR Low/High Legends, Regs... ect on the Ipad. 

I read through the PTS so I knew what to expect and special emphasis areas (these are freebies cause you know they will be tested).  It has a good checklist for all the items you need to bring.  I brought a small printer along as a backup and needed it to print at the end.  

 

Thank you for sharing. I have been happy with sporty’s video series. Used it for both private and instrument. My instrument is still in progress. The resources that I found helpful so far:

- https://pilotworkshop.com has some nice tutorials - paid but they show real use cases. I bought more than I should but IFR communication and missing IFR lessons are probably the most useful

- ARSim (on iOS) allows you to practice radio calls.

- flightready (ios) helps you to practice for IFR written exam

- Rod Machado’s Instrument Pilot Handbook - I like his style and the book has wealth of information with some real life examples

- pilotedge.net for overview of ATC communications. I’m still to spend time in the sim to practice radio calls but I expect it to be quite helpful as radio is one of my biggest challenges.

What I’m missing in all those materials is how different pieces come together. pilotworkshop is the closest to showing how IFR flight planning and actual execution look end to end. Rod has a chapter dedicated to it as well.

Hope this is helpful to others, would love to see some other pointers.

[hammdo]

Pilot workshop has a new ifr course too...

Instrument Rating Accelerator...

-Don

 

[KB4]

On 3/17/2021 at 8:35 PM, dominikos said:

Thank you for sharing. I have been happy with sporty’s video series. Used it for both private and instrument. My instrument is still in progress. The resources that I found helpful so far:

- https://pilotworkshop.com has some nice tutorials - paid but they show real use cases. I bought more than I should but IFR communication and missing IFR lessons are probably the most useful

- ARSim (on iOS) allows you to practice radio calls.

- flightready (ios) helps you to practice for IFR written exam

- Rod Machado’s Instrument Pilot Handbook - I like his style and the book has wealth of information with some real life examples

- pilotedge.net for overview of ATC communications. I’m still to spend time in the sim to practice radio calls but I expect it to be quite helpful as radio is one of my biggest challenges.

What I’m missing in all those materials is how different pieces come together. pilotworkshop is the closest to showing how IFR flight planning and actual execution look end to end. Rod has a chapter dedicated to it as well.

Hope this is helpful to others, would love to see some other pointers.

For radios, pull an approach plate at airport that LiveATC monitors and spend few minutes listening to APPROACH even better if it’s same approaches you will use.  Quickly you will be comfortable.  
 

I found this helpful keeping Instructions and Freq’s organized 
https://www.dauntless-soft.com/downloads/ifrfp22.pdf