The Pilot’s Manual: Instrument FlyingAttitude Flight
1 Introduction to Instrument Flight
2 Instrument Scanning Techniques
3 The Instruments
4 Straight-and-Level Flight
5 The Straight Climb and Descent
6 Turning
7
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The Pilot’s Manual: Instrument FlyingAttitude Flight
1 Introduction to Instrument Flight
2 Instrument Scanning Techniques
3 The Instruments
4 Straight-and-Level Flight
5 The Straight Climb and Descent
6 Turning
7 Unusual Attitudes
8 Normal Instrument Flight on a Partial Panel
9 Suggested Training Maneuvers
101In
troduction to Instrument Flight
Air travel becomes much more reliable when airplane operations are not restricted by poor weather or by
darkness. Greater reliability can be achieved with a suitably equipped airplane and a pilot skilled in instrument
flying.
The instrument-qualified pilot and the instrument-equipped airplane must be able to cope with flying in
restricted visibility, such as in cloud, mist, smog, rain, snow, or at night, all of which may make the natural
horizon and ground features difficult, or even impossible, to see.
Figure 1-1 Control and performance.
As an instrument pilot, you must learn to trust what you see on the instruments. We generally use vision to
orient ourselves with our surroundings, supported by other gravity-perceiving bodily senses, such as feel and
balance. Even with the eyes closed, however, we can usually manage to sit, stand and walk on steady ground
without losing control. This becomes much more difficult standing on the tray of an accelerating or turning
truck, or even in an accelerating elevator.
In an airplane, which can accelerate in three dimensions, the task becomes almost impossible unless you
have the use of your eyes.
The eyes must gather information from the external ground features, including the horizon; or, in poor
visibility, they gather substitute information from the instruments.
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