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ADVANCED PILOT TECHNOLOGY

* Check for a phone number in
the chart supplement that can be
used for clearance delivery.
* Airborne. Weather permitting,
you can depart VFR and contact
ATC in the air or flight service on
122.2 MHz or a local frequency
that can be found on an IFR or
VFR chart. FT

Beginning in October, the chart
supplement also will include backup
clearance delivery phone numbers for
all airports with a remote communications outlet, ground communication
outlet, or remote transmitter/receiver
to use if the radio communications
become unavailable-per AOPA's
request.

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basic instrument flying skills, Patterns
A and B are valuable exercises in timing
turns, maintaining heading, and using
the skills necessary for holds, procedure turns, and approaches. They're
also 14 minutes each of mind-numbing
monotony.
Suffering through these exercises as
an instrument student is bad enough;
I can only imagine what it's like for an
instructor twiddling his thumbs in visual
conditions while I get the rust off my
straight-and-level skills. In that sense,
Redbird Flight Simulations' Guided
Independent Flight Training (GIFT)
instrument rating program, unveiled at
EAA AirVenture on July 22, really is a
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gift-to burnt-out flight instructors, and
to the instrument students paying them
for their time.
Simulators are now well established
as training tools, particularly in the procedural world of instrument flying. But
the dynamic in the simulator is typically
similar to that in the cockpit: student and
instructor side by side, with the instructor
observing and offering feedback, much
of it rote. Watch your altitude. Check your
airspeed. Right rudder. With its GIFT programs, Redbird delegates some of those
instructor tasks to the software.
The IFR program follows the basic
format established with the private
pilot program, which launched in 2017:
Students review the online video and

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