Procedures

IFR Suite does not plan the flight.

Fuel, an alternate, and the weather briefing belong to the flight you are going to fly. The app does not plan that flight. A session is the picture of one procedure.

IFR Suite does not plan the flight.

IFR Suite Editorial · IFR Suite · 5 min read

A field note, for the way ahead.

Planning an instrument flight is the fuel, the alternate, the route, and the weather, written down before you go. You do that in a briefing, with your instructor when you are learning. IFR Suite does not plan that flight.

There is no fuel in the app, no alternate, and no weather. It does not read a METAR or a TAF, and it does not play the ATIS. There is no radio and no microphone. 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. That is where the procedure sits. It is not a flight plan to those places. Glass or round gauges. The instruments stay in English. The session panel follows the language you choose.

The app does not copy a clearance, and it is not a source of charts. Time in the app is not flight time and not instrument time.

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

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