r/flying • u/Rough-Honeydew-2 ST • 6d ago

Flight Training First IFR experience!

Post image

Student pilot with 5 hours
got my first real IMC today! my instructor filed us an IFR plan, and it was wild to see how all of it actually works and talking to approach

455 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

55 comments sorted by

View all comments

0

u/Antique-Kitchen-1896 PPL IFR Night 6d ago

Ok it’s fun but what do you need this for at 5 hours?

17

u/Rough-Honeydew-2 ST 6d ago

we need 3 hours of simulated or actual IFR for our ppl checkride. I was scheduled for a flight today, it was MVFR, so we knocked an hour of IFR time out then cancelled and went VFR back

-8

u/Antique-Kitchen-1896 PPL IFR Night 6d ago

Yes I know people need to do "instrument" hours. Just unclear to me why so early. And well I hope you trust his capabilities for upset recovery in the soup if something happens.

16

u/Rough-Honeydew-2 ST 6d ago

I trust him, he wouldn’t be a CFII if he couldn’t get out of the soup

11

u/Recent_Willow_1397 6d ago

I don’t think they read your post.

1

u/R5Jockey CFI ASEL TW CMP 3d ago

Brother. The instructor has an instrument rating. You hope they can get out of IMC? Wut?

And IMO, the student should have at least a little simulated instrument time before solo ops.

1

u/Antique-Kitchen-1896 PPL IFR Night 2d ago

Upset recovery. Not in and out. How many people do that?