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  • Quiz: IFR Approach Chart Symbols

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Practical IFR: Does Your Approach Use the Wrong Minimums?

July 15, 2025
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It’s visibility that controls whether we can land or not. While on paper that's a number we have or don't, it’s not so simple in real life. We must make a rapid judgment call—sometimes based on a glance—as to whether we're getting enough visual information to call the flight visibility half a mile. Or three-quarters of a mile, or two miles, or whatever.
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Quiz: IFR Approach Chart Symbols

July 11, 2025
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Understanding a terminal procedures publication is key to completing a successful flight under instrument flight rules. How well can you interpret all the codes and symbols on an IFR approach chart?
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The art of instrument approaches – 7 tips for proficient flying

July 8, 2025
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Instrument training is demanding, but at its most basic the goal is quite simple: keep the wings level and the needles crossed. Do that a few times with an examiner and you can pass the checkride. But if your goal is to use your instrument rating for real (and do it safely), there's a lot more to consider.
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RNAV/GPS Instrument Approach Tips – LPV, LNAV+V and more (video tip)

July 4, 2025
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Learn how to fly RNAV approaches like a pro in Sporty's latest IFR video tip.
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What’s in an approach category?

July 1, 2025
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Aircraft fall into one of five approach categories (A-E) based on the aircraft's target final approach speed, or reference speed (Vref). If this speed is not published for the aircraft, then a speed of 1.3 times the stall speed.
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Mastering Approach Lighting Systems: Insights and Scenarios for Instrument Pilots

June 27, 2025
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Approach light systems are a configuration of signal lights starting at the landing threshold and extending into the approach area, at a distance of 2,400 to 3,000 feet for precision instrument runways, and 1,400 to 1,500 feet for non-precision instrument runways. Some systems include sequenced flashing lights which appear to the pilot as a ball of light traveling towards the runway at high speed—nicknamed the rabbit.  
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VIDEOS

RNAV/GPS Instrument Approach Tips – LPV, LNAV+V and more (video tip)

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Mastering Approach Lighting Systems: Insights and Scenarios for Instrument Pilots

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Video Tip: Filing an IFR Flight Plan? Here’s What Matters Most to ATC

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QUIZZES

Quiz: IFR Approach Chart Symbols

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Test Your Knowledge with This IFR Acronyms Quiz

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Quiz: Regulations for Instrument Flight Rules

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ARTICLES

Practical IFR: Does Your Approach Use the Wrong Minimums?

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The art of instrument approaches – 7 tips for proficient flying

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What’s in an approach category?

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WEBINARS

Webinar Video: How to Ace Your FAA Instrument Written

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Webinar Video: Home Simulation For IFR Training and Proficiency—a Pilot’s Perspective

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Webinar Video: Flying with the iPad as a Digital Copilot

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IFR TRAINING

8 IFR SOPs That Could Save Your Life

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Sporty’s Instrument Rating Course: New AI Tools & 2025 Course Updates

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Basic attitude instrument flying – the foundation for IFR flight

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TOOLS & TECH

Keeping One Step Ahead of ATC when flying IFR

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How to set up aircraft equipment codes in aviation apps to file IFR flight plans

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Sporty’s Instrument Rating Course: New AI Tools & 2025 Course Updates

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A Comprehensive Guide to the FAA Knowledge Test

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