IPC PREPARATION
Prepare for your Instrument Proficiency Check with purpose.
A focused refresher for instrument-rated pilots who want to sharpen knowledge, procedures, and flying skills before completing an IPC.
Identify weak areas before the check.
This session is designed as preparation for an Instrument Proficiency Check—not the check itself. We use a structured ground discussion and targeted flight training to find the areas that need attention, rebuild confidence, and make your instrument procedures deliberate and repeatable.
The emphasis is on practical IFR proficiency: understanding what you are doing, staying ahead of the airplane, managing workload, and making sound decisions when conditions or equipment do not cooperate.
Good fit for
- Pilots returning to IFR after time away
- Pilots preparing for an upcoming IPC
- Pilots who want a structured IFR refresher
- Pilots who want to identify proficiency gaps before being evaluated
Preflight discussion
- IFR currency and operating requirements
- Weather interpretation and go/no-go decisions
- Alternates, fuel, and flight planning
- Departure, en route, arrival, and approach procedures
- Holding procedures and missed approaches
- Navigation equipment and automation
- Systems and equipment limitations
- Partial-panel or degraded-system operations
- ATC communication and clearances
- Risk management and workload management
Flight training focus
Your flight is built around the areas that will give you the most value. Typical work includes instrument departures, intercepting and tracking courses, holding, precision and nonprecision approaches, missed approaches, unusual-attitude recovery, communications, automation management, and partial-panel or degraded-system scenarios.
The goal is not to simply “get through” procedures. We focus on scan, anticipation, briefing, configuration, energy management, situational awareness, and decision making so your IFR flying is usable in the real world.
Get ready before the evaluation.
Tell us how long it has been since you last flew IFR and where you feel least confident. We’ll tailor the session around your needs.
