On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:26:45 +0800, Innis Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably takes about two years of flying to get a basic knowledge. That's a bit of an exaggeration. A couple of hours spent reading through http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ should make a good start. A pilot normally needs about 40 hours training to be able to fly holds and approaches within tolerance for the instrument rating, but most pilots have the basics of VOR/DME/ADF/ILS down after about 5 hours practice, even if they're pretty sloppy at that point. A lot of the 40 hours are spent learning to fly on the gyros when you cannot see out the windows, not learning how to use the nav instruments. Most of IFR ground school, in Canada at least, is spent on weather and regulations, not navigation radios. Before the original poster tries that, though, it would be a good idea to get the basic airmanship down -- learn to use the central six instruments, and learn to maintain heading, airspeed, and altitude. Once that's all down, it's good to practice again in IMC, where the instruments are your only reference. > It took 3 months of solid 8 hours a day in aicraft radio school to learn how > these > systems work.And I am not sure 30 years later that I fully understand or > believe > what I was taught. Were you learning how to build or maintain the instruments, rather than just use them? All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
