nosehair
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Training, Training, Training! - A good pilot is always training.
I remember when I left the school environment and "went into the field", I was shocked (this was many years ago) to see that pilots did not wear the hood provided in each aircraft, but logged the monthly required instrument training time anyway. "How could this be?", I said to myself, this is life-or-death stuff. Does not every pilot try to be the best that he can be? Well, I have come to know that is not the case.
It makes absolutely perfect sense to practice one full instrument approach a month to minimums - to minimums, right? that's where it gets hairy - that's where the practice needs to occur. If you don't get an actual one to minimums, you need to put the hood on and practice one.
If you put the hood on during one of those in-and-out days, you would keep the hood on during the entire approach to insure doing the full approach to mins in simulated conditions. No matter what's going on outside. You're in-and-out. Maybe solid for the entire approach, but you don't know if it will stay solid or not, so you keep the hood on and therefore you need to keep the safety pilot employed.
Got it?
I remember when I left the school environment and "went into the field", I was shocked (this was many years ago) to see that pilots did not wear the hood provided in each aircraft, but logged the monthly required instrument training time anyway. "How could this be?", I said to myself, this is life-or-death stuff. Does not every pilot try to be the best that he can be? Well, I have come to know that is not the case.
It makes absolutely perfect sense to practice one full instrument approach a month to minimums - to minimums, right? that's where it gets hairy - that's where the practice needs to occur. If you don't get an actual one to minimums, you need to put the hood on and practice one.
If you put the hood on during one of those in-and-out days, you would keep the hood on during the entire approach to insure doing the full approach to mins in simulated conditions. No matter what's going on outside. You're in-and-out. Maybe solid for the entire approach, but you don't know if it will stay solid or not, so you keep the hood on and therefore you need to keep the safety pilot employed.
Got it?
