IFR TRAINING

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IFR TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONAL PILOTS

Selective radial scan

An effective scan is the foundation skill of all professional pilots.
To be effective you require a strategy for scanning that directs your eyes selectively to the instruments that are most relevent for the phose of flight.

How ADF works

ADF stands for Automatic Direction Finder

How VOR works

The simulation shows how VOR works . 
VOR stand for VHF Omni-directional Ranging.

How RMI works

There are two simulation on this page .
They explain how RMI works.
It is a common misconception to believe that the RMI needle points at the VOR, but it does not .

How ILS works

This simulation explane how the ILS system works.

How DME Works

I will add an explanation later.

DME jitter

Every airplane using a DME ground station interrogates the station on the same frequency.
Given this it seems amazing that your DME can tell which response pulse the station is for it.But it can tell. The system that makes this possible is colled ” Jitter “.
This simulation explains how Jitter works.

DME squitters / autostanby

When the DME ground station is out of range it would be inefficient for your DME radio to transmit interrogation pulses. To do so would waste electric power. To solve this problem your DME will enter auto-standby mode until such time that it ” hears ” response pulses from the ground station. To ensure that there are always response pulses to be heard the ground station transmits “squitter ” even if there are no airplanes in the area. 

How the DME tuner works

It will come later.

How VOT Works

VOT stands for VOR Test.
The VOT station transmits in the same frequency range as VOR but the two signals are transmitted in phase in all directions. 

Comparative VOR test

A VOT facility is not always available when you want to test your VOR receivers accuracy. A comparative test can be used if your airplane has two VOR receivers.

navigation displays

This page is supposed to show the difference between standard VOR and HSI display as well as the difference between fixed card and RMI. 
Later i will document the simulation more fully.

Practice Vital Skills

A vitally important skill for pilots is to estimate the amount of wind drift given the forecast wind. The simulation below explain how to do it and then offers you the chance to test your skill.

Bracketing is the single most important navigation skill you must develop. Far too many pilots “home” when they should track. The result is weaving along an airway chasing the CDI or RMI needle and never establishing an accurate drift angle. You must be better than that. As a professional pilot you are expected to establish the drift angle and fly the heading that keeps you on track. In other simulations you have learned how to estimate the drift, but in this simulation you will determine the drift without knowing the wind in advance.

When tracking with an ADF, either fixed card or RMI a saying that pilots find useful is “push the head, pull the tail.” The simulation below clarifies what this saying means.

When tracking inbound to a station always look at the “head” of the needle. By head we mean the end with the arrow on it. The head ALWAYS moves away from the nose of the airplane, so we can say that the nose “pushes” the head away. Thus, to get the head of the needle to move to our desired track we must move the nose of the airplane to the opposite side. Once you have the nose positioned you can imagine a little bulldozer appearing that pushes the needle where you want it. The simulation below demonstrates this. It also shows a little tractor that pulls the tail of the needle toward the nose. Thus if you want to track outbound you must keep the nose on the side of the tail as the track you are trying to intercept / track.

This simulation allows you to develop the skill of flying a DME arc.

In IFR flying it will often be necessary to intercept an assigned course either to or from a particular VOR or NDB. In most cases this will be an airway as specified on a chart or an approach course or hold course as assigned by ATC.

When flying IFR it is quite common to recieve a hold clearance. You will have to enter and maintain a hold pattern on your IFR flight test. This simulation gives you an opportunity to practice entering and maintaining a hold pattern.

 

The simulation will create an infinite number of IFR approaches for you to practice. Press the “N-key” for NDB approaches, the “V-key” for VOR approaches and the “I-ley” for ILS approaches.

This simulation is exclusively to prepare for simulator lesson 5. Download instructions and charts.

Use this simulation to practice TSI, PDTs, Holds, and approaches. Download instructions.

You can easitly imagine releasing a balloon to “drift” in the wind, but what does it mean when we say that an airplane drifts? This simulation clarifies what drift is. For a complete description of teh simulation read this document.

Pilots often use the terms crosswind and headwind rather casually. It is quite common to refer to headwind as “wind on the nose” for example. But this is actually incorrect. This simulation clarifies the definitions.

Hier you can vieuw some programs in working , but only possible to open in windows G1000

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