with 40.2 hours of instrument / simulated instrument time I passed my IA checkride yesterday.

It was pretty brutal, and was almost 5 hours from the time we started until the time I had the temporary airmens cert in my hand.

The oral was the worst part of it. There is just A LOT of stuff to know and remember when flying instruments.

It definintely was worth the efffort for myself, but if I didn't own my own plane I can see that it would be very expensive to get and maintain.

Now off to commercial ground school and then taildraggers sign-off...

If anyone needs a safety pilot, I need about 70 more hours PIC for comm!

You're a freight train, Rod!

Congrats. I was just wondering about this yesterday. Let me know if you want a safety pilot to shoot any more approaches.

This week has been a whirlwind!

All the things that go into getting ready for a checkride, a checkride, my wife started school again on Monday, I closed today on buying out my partners, so 7034G is mine, all mine, and Saturday - Sunday Aviation Seminars Commercial Ground school. Going back to work on Monday will be a rest....

Where do you keep your plane? IIRC it's on the east side somewhere. We start our annual in 2 weeks, so I don't think I am going to fly to much between now and then, but until it gets cold, I don't have an excuse to not go fly anymore.....

Now that you have it, remember it's a perishable skill. Get as much wx time as you can. Don't go anywhere VFR for quite a while.

Congratulations,

The IFR ticket is the most difficult of all the ratings. Now go slow and watch the WX carefully when you fly IFR.

Idaho SuperCub