INSTRUMENT FAA REGULATIONS

• Preceding six calendar months 
• -six instrument approaches
• -holding procedures
• -intercepting and tracking

Must be done after 12 calendar months if instrumeny recency expires

• Have a PVT license
• Read and write english
• Received ground training
• Receive logbook training endorsement
• Have appropriate training
• Pass the knowledge test

• Fifty hours of cross country as PIC
• Fourty hours of simulated instrument 
• Instrument cross country flight of 250 nautical miles along airways or directed routing from ATC
• Three different kinds of instrument approaches at each airport

• Aircraft carries enough fuel considering weather to complete flight ot the first airport of intended landing
• Enough to fly to the alternate
• Fly for 45 minutes at normal cruising speed after arrival

• 91.153 (general flight plan layout)
• Approach Procedure
• Weather reports indicating above minimums 1 hour before and after estimated time of arrival
• Alternate weather minimums are above
• Must cancel after landing or when no longer needed

• Operationally checked within the preceding 30 days within the permissable error
• Must log the VOR check with the date, place, bearing error and sign the record

AVE F

• Assigned
• Vectored
• Expected
• Filed

AME

• Assigned 
• Minimum 
• Expected

Report as soon as practical to ATC any malfunctions to navigational, approach or communication equipment 

Must have been inspected within the preceding 24 calendar months

Must have been inspected within the preceding 24 calendar months