Instrument Competency Check

Let's face it, unless you fly every day for a living, it's hard to maintain the IFR currency required by the FAR's. If you are not current for IFR flight, you will need an Instrument Competency Check from a CFII.  OTC's Senior Instructor is a retired airline pilot and holds a CFII and MEI. 

Sure, you can get current almost anywhere, but at OTC, you'll fly with a veteran pilot and will learn how to operate in the IFR system safely and like a professional.  OTC will provide you with a real world IFR check, in the aircraft you are used to flying, and get you current again.  You won't find the real world knowledge needed to safely and comfortably operate in the IFR system anywhere else.

Your Instrument Competency Check will consist of a knowledge portion covering the following topics:

  • FAR Part 91, with special emphasis on Subpat B, C, and E.
  • Instrument Enroute Charts with emphasis on approach charts, including SIDS and STARS
  • How and where to obtain weather information; how to analyze weather information; knowledge of hazardous weather conditions
  • Preflight planning including aircraft performance data, NOTAM information, fuel and alternate requirements, and the use of appropriate FAA publications such as the Airport/Facility Directory.
  • Aircraft systems related to IFR operations for your specific aircraft or aircraft you usuallly fly, including operating methods, limitations, and emergency procedures due to equipment failure
  • Aircraft flight instruments and navigation equipment, including characteristics,
    limitations, operating techniques, and emergency procedures due to malfunction or failure, such as lost communications procedures.
  • Determining the airworthiness status of the aircraft for instrument flight, including required inspections and documents.
  • Air Traffic Control (ATC) procedures pertinent to flight under IFR with emphasis on
    elements of ATC clearances and pilot/controller responsibilities.

Following discussion of the above subjects, you will be asked to prepare for the skill portion of the competency check by completing the necessary flight planning, obtaining current weather data, filing a flight plan, and conducting the preflight inspection.

INSTRUMENT COMPETENCY CHECK ----- SKILL PORTION.

  • Basic attitude instrument flying skills, within the levels appropriate to your pilot certificate, to include holding heading and altitude, turns, climbs and descents, and climbing and descending turns.
  • Intercepting and tracking a VOR radial, NDB, and/or GPS.
  • Holding procedures
  • Various instrument approaches. 

The maneuvers and procedures selected for the instrument competency check will be
comprehensive enough to enable our CFII to determine that the pilot can safely operate under IFR in a broad range of conditions appropriate to the aircraft flown and the ATC environment selected. Proper adherence to ATC clearances will be especially emphasized.

Rates are $41 per hour.  Plan on at least three hours of ground and flight time. 

For more information send us an email to train@otcnc.com

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