Keep Your Instrument Rating Current
Channel: Over 50 and Learning To Fly!
Date: 2021-10-14

Keep Your Instrument Rating Current!

As we get closer to fall and winter we have to really get comfortable with IFR flight and IMC.    I – as all of us should be- am super conservative on the weather.  Having an instrument rating does not guarantee you will stay out of trouble, and can actually be seen as permission to get in trouble…  so all of us should  have  an exercise our personal minimums.

So during the time I had the engine installed and I was down for about 3 months to my surprise my IFR currency vanished into the clouds… and on the 180th  day, so it technically did not lapse, I went up did 3 approaches and a hold I was back in the currency game. 

My message here is simple.  Keep your instrument rating current.  You don’t want to be caught by surprise IMC and have to use when you are not proficient.  If you have an instrument rating, get out there and shoot approaches every time you go flying.  Grab a safety pilot, there are plenty new pilots out there who are screaming for hours and bit if you will be better pilots because of it.

Yes! I bought an airplane! This program has some initial numbers and breaks down the monthly expenses. Owning an airplane can be affordable... but the upgrades....  That is what will get me.  Watch this program to find out what ownership costs.

Have you always wanted to learn how to fly but now you are over 50?  Get out there and start and learn! There are so many people in there 50's and 60's who are just starting to fly so what are you waiting for?