Procedures

IFR Suite is not cockpit resource management.

Cockpit resource management is how a pilot runs a real flight. IFR Suite has no crew, no radio, and no flight to manage. A session is one procedure.

IFR Suite is not cockpit resource management.

IFR Suite Editorial · IFR Suite · 5 min read

A field note, for the way ahead.

Cockpit resource management is the work of running a flight: the airplane, the plan, the weather, and the radios, with one pilot or with a crew. IFR Suite does not teach that work.

There is no crew in the app, and there is no second pilot. There is no radio and no microphone. There is no weather to decide on, and no flight to manage. It is not for a real flight.

What a session is

One procedure, so the picture is familiar before you spend airplane time.

  • A departure, until the runway and the first turns are familiar.
  • The traffic pattern, until you can describe the circuit.
  • An approach, from the initial segment through the missed approach.
  • A hold. The entry is direct, teardrop, or parallel, chosen from your heading and from where you are relative to the inbound course.
  • An intercept, and a DME arc.

There are more than 9,800 airports and navaids. Glass or round gauges. The instruments stay in English. The session panel follows the language you choose.

What stays outside the app

How you manage the workload in the airplane belongs to you and to your instructor. Time in the app is not flight time and not instrument time. The app does not copy a clearance, and it is not a source of charts.

Use a short session, then fly the same procedure with your instructor.

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