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IFR cert may be as little as a radio and a VOR. The aircraft's pitot and static system must be checked as does the altimeter. Now for different approaches, you'll need different goodies. For example to shoot an ILS, you'll need a glide slope receiver/indicator and marker beacon receiver. Don't forget about that stopwatch/clock! An IFR GPS/COM needs a head and annunciators to be /G. Remember that when taking your check ride, you'll be made to shoot an approach, go missed and probably do a hold with each piece of equipment you have. If you have just a VOR, you'll only be asked to use that. Glide slope, DME, ADF, GPS, etc, if you got 'em you'll need to show you can use 'em. Plenty of used equipment out there that is being taken out for upgrades. Check Ebay and your local pilot hangout. Another good place is the AOPA classifieds. ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen coffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:39 AM Subject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] IFR item list > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > > > I'm thinking of making the Alon IFR. Not that I think it would make a great > platform, just basically to use to learn, and for those days when you could > get through it quickly. Like two weeks ago, everything was GREAT once you > got 30 miles south of Atlanta, but I still drove to Jacksonville instead of > flying. > > I've read the FAR's, and the "required equipment list" is all stuff I've got > in the airplane already. What is left completely ambiguous is what you need > for approaches, in that it says "as required by your airport". That's where > I get wrapped around the axle. What would be a "typical" way to set up an > airplane? > > I THINK a good way to go (based on my uninformed research) would be to put > in a NARCO Nav-122 all in one VOR with localizer and glideslope (KISS > principle, and light, too!) and then something like a Garmin GNC-300 IFR > certified GPS. Used and tagged, I could do this for under $4k. I'm told > that the GPS negates the need for redoing the intercom to include marker > beacon. > > How sayeth the crowd? Am I on the right/wrong/stupid path? > > > Stephen Coffey > > > > ========================================================================== == == > To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm > Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/ > > > > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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