2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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AV 210B - Instrument Ground School


Credits: 4
Description
Aspects of instruction will include the aeronautical knowledge areas as determined by the Federal Aviation Administration for the Instrument Rating – Airplane. This course will prepare eligible students to take the FAA Instrument Rating – Airplane Knowledge Exam. Course may be taken as an IFR refresher or to enhance knowledge of IFR flight operations.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. List and describe FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) requirements for an instrument rating.
  2. List and discuss recency-of-experience requirements.
  3. Identify and discuss the conditions under which IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) flight is required and/or recommended.
  4. Describe and demonstrate appropriate and correct IFR pre-flight procedures and protocols.
  5. Identify and compare specific panel instruments needed for VFR (Visual Flight Rules) versus IFR flight, and describe their uses and limitations.
  6. Review and demonstrate complete understanding of various types of air space, and relate to IFR flight.
  7. Identify and describe instrument approach airports according to including, tower ATC (Air Traffic Control) procedures and policies, runway markings, glide slope approaches, special considerations.
  8. Review various sources of weather information, and demonstrate the ability to read coded weather reports and interpret weather map symbols.
  9. Review various types of weather phenomena and relate to IFR flight.
  10. Identify and describe correct IFR departure procedures.
  11. Describe en route IFR flight according to airway route systems, special use airspace, navigation, cruise clearance, oxygen requirements, emergencies and unusual flight conditions.
  12. Describe IFR approaches including regulations and required procedures.
  13. Define and describe the following approaches, approach control, precision approaches, non-precision approaches, circling approaches, missed approaches.
  14. Identify, discuss and compare aids to IFR approaches and landing including radar approaches, glide slope indicators, microwave landing systems, approach plates, SID (Standard Instrument Departure) and STAR (Standard Terminal Arrival Route) charts, and other aids.
  15. Complete IFR flight plans and comprehensive IFR trip review.

Prerequisite: AV 110B  



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