Flight simulation software for pilots preparing for their Instrument Rating. The only simulator that can show, teach, and test you on all the IFR proce- dures in the Instrument PTS.

IP Trainer is the only IFR simulator with a foundation of artificial intelligence in the form of a virtual instrument flight instructor (CFII), the only interactive courseware designed exclusively for instrument students, and the only program that can compare its knowledge of the Instrument Rating Practical Test Standards against a student's real-time flight simulation performance.

The only IFR simulator that can show you, teach you and then test you on the things you need to know.

When Private Pilot Magazine called IP Trainer™ "... a landmark step forward in IFR procedures training," it wasn't just because IP Trainer was the first computerized tool to teach IFR air work. More importantly, it was because IP Trainer was the first program to simulate the key facet of instrument flight training — the instructor.

Version 7 continues the tradition of excellence as the only IFR simulator designed specifically for pilots working towards an instrument rating. All previous version's features are included, such as IFR procedures presented in 133 interactive lessons, teaching all the tasks outlined in the FAA's instrument rating PTS in a Cessna 172.

Version 7 of the popular IP Trainer desktop simulator includes these features and benefits:

• Scan Trainer provides different scan patterns for all lessons.
• CFII Tips included in each briefing provide hints and suggestions for managing the software lessons with less frustration, while acquiring the instrument flying skills.
• On-screen streaming messages appear when you are flying outside the lesson parameters so you may correct before the lesson stops you.
• A "Continue" button is now available so you can keep flying the lesson without backing up and starting over.
• Preset flights are available in Free Flight mode, allowing you to fly the lesson approaches “solo” for continued scan and procedural practice without the built in CFII.
• A more comprehensive navigation database has been added.
• The Instrument Flying textbook that ships with the software has been updated and now has full-color illustrations throughout.

It's About Instruction

The danger in non-rated pilots shooting their first approaches on a simulator is when there isn't an instructor looking over their shoulders, demonstrating the right way to do things and looking out for the formation of "bad habits." Unless you have that guidance and instruction, there's no guarantee of what you're learning and how you're learning it.

IP Trainer's 133 built-in lessons are assembled on a foundation of artificial intelligence and presented by a "virtual CFII," who briefs you on each maneuver, demonstrates it, verbally prompts you through your own attempt at it, lets you practice under its guidance, and finally tests you on it. Since the instructor knows your precise flight profile at any given time, it can stop you if you stray outside the lesson parameters. Then IPT will explain what the error was, and offer to either back up to a point before the error occurred or even practice the lesson again — unless you're in the Test Mode, where you and your newfound skills must fly the procedure from start to finish. When you've completed a lesson test, IPT evaluates you to exacting standards (the same standards as on an FAA Practical Test) and graphically displays your rating in the different elements of that lesson. Just like a CFII, Instrument Pilot compares its knowledge of how the procedure should be flown with your execution of it, then examines your performance.

It's About The Lessons

The IP Trainer syllabus covers every aspect of instrument flight, in a comprehensive format that The Aviation Consumer called "the most elaborately organized IFR simulator course we've ever seen...This Herculean software can do the job with an awesome pyramid of instructional building blocks." Lesson Blocks cover their own areas of training, and build on the elements learned earlier. IPT records every lesson you've taken and knows how well you've done on it, and recommends the next lessons to take or where to go back for further review.

"Instrument Flying" covers both basic and advanced attitude flying. "Radio Navigation" teaches intercepts, holding patterns and more. In "Instrument Approaches" you'll learn every approach from NDB and ILS to "no gyro" approaches, all at real airports. "Enroute IFR" covers clearances, Departure Procedures and STARs. Every lesson has actual digitized controller voice: for ATIS, clearance delivery, ground control, tower, approach and departure control, center, FSS and Flight Watch. Along with guiding your lesson, these voices prepare you for the real world of IFR flight.

IP Trainer's airplane is an aerodynamically correct model of a Cessna C172, the world's most popular instrument trainer. All instruments are accurate models of aircraft instruments, incorporating indicated airspeed errors, Heading Indicator precession, and magnetic compass errors.

If you're not up to a lesson, go to the "Free Flight" mode, where you can fly the C172 into any airport in the U.S., with every navaid at your disposal, to practice your newfound skills. Review your flight on a map, and preset wind, ceilings and visibility. Practice unfamiliar approaches anywhere in the country, before you ever get there.

It's About Saving Time and Money

While IP Trainer™ will never replace your real instructor, you'll fly with that CFII carrying a thorough understanding of IFR procedures with you. You'll be able to spend more time on fine-tuning technique, instead of learning frustrating concepts. IP has helped thousands of IFR students with their ratings, in less time and with less money spent overall, and given them the most solid foundation of skills an Instrument Pilot can possess.

• Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
  
• 128MB RAM (Win2000/XP)
• 512MB (Windows Vista)
• 120 MB hard drive space
• Mouse
• Joystick or Yoke

This is an interactive desktop flight simulator created to help instrument-rated pilots maintain proficiency in the maneuvers outlined in the FAA instrument currency requirements and prepare for the Instrument Proficiency Check (IPC). Unlike any other desktop flight simulator available on the market today, Instrument Refresher — An IPC Simulator is a comprehensive tutorial and training platform for instrument pilots.

Using a photorealistic and aerodynamically-accurate Cessna 172, Instrument Refresher gives pilots 24 lessons divided into four "blocks" of learning: radio navigation, airwork, enroute procedures and instrument approaches. Lessons cover all maneuvers required to maintain instrument currency including instrument approaches, holding, intercepting and tracking using NAVAIDs, as well as unusual attitudes, partial panel, radio communications, and steep turns; a fifth block simulates an actual Instrument Proficiency Check (IPC).

This software is ideal for pilots who don’t fly on the gauges as frequently as they’d like to, those who need to relearn some procedures, or those seeking a way to practice instrument recent-flight-experience maneuvers. Instrument Refresher will help pilots build confidence in their instrument skills and get over the refresher hurdle with the guidance of a qualified, knowledgeable instructor in the privacy of their own home. The program also includes a "free flight" mode that allows users to leave the training environment and practice procedures and approaches anywhere in the world, setting weather conditions along the way.

Continued VFR into IFR conditions persists as the most frequent cause of weather-related accidents. This book provides the bare-bones essentials of instrument flying technique and procedures so urgently needed in order to cope with and survive an inadvertent encounter with low-visibility IFR conditions.
For this "IFR survival guide," Richard Taylor has adapted the key lifesaving elements of IFR discipline to the average VFR pilot's capabilities. Here are complete instructions in a simplified "hands-off" flying technique that minimizes the risks of loss of control when outside visual clues are lost. The physiological causes of spatial disorientation are explained, giving valuable insights into IFR's most treacherous aspect. A chapter contributed by noted pscyhologist and flight instructor Dr. Jerald Cockrell tells how to control fear and panic the cockpit.

Should Air Traffic Control assistance be necessary, IFR for VFR Pilots tells how to communicate effectively and how to use ATC to fly out of a low-visibility predicament. The book guides you step-by-step through the essential procedures of DF steers, radar vectors, and other ATC "assists." VOR and DF fixes, VOR approaches, low-visibility landing technique, even the missed approach, are clearly explained with typical Taylor expertise.

IFR for VFR Pilots is a must for all fair-weather fliers, however proficient and cautious they may be. Its no-nonsense approach has a lot to say to the seasoned instrument-rated pilot as well. Second Edition. Soft cover, illustrated and indexed, 138 pages.

In this unique and instructive book, veteran IFR pilot Richard L. Collins takes the right seat beside Patrick E. Bradley to demonstrate effective ways to grasp and solve IFR problems and eliminate uncertainties that may plague even current IFR airmen. Bradley, a relatively new IFR pilot, discusses the concerns and errors he has shared with most instrument fliers who are new or rusty. Collins then applies his own experiences and methods, including some lessons learned the hard way, and carefully examines airline and general aviation accidents to point out how threatening situations can be avoided or safely confronted.

IFR is a thinking game, and the authors emphasize ways of avoiding mental lapses that can turn simple difficulties into lethal crises:

• Making sure you’re fuel-safe when your destination is at minimums.
• Recognizing and thinking through the dangers of nighttime and circling approaches.
• Shifting strategies and tactics when the winds aloft misbehave.
• Avoiding the traps of the missed approach: before, during, and after.
• Choosing right when you’re number one for takeoff and a thunderstorm is approaching the field.
• Staying on top of equipment needs, quirks, and failures.
  

This high quality book offers a unique learning method from which you can comprehend Radio Navigation with ease and become a more proficient and confident pilot. With 1200 full colour briliantly clear illustrations all the various problems of radio navigation are covered and will be of great help to Students, Instructors, Commercial Pilots and all users of Flight Simulators. 'With this book you will learn not only to interpret the indication on your instrument with the position of the aircraft in relation to the radio beacon but also "to oneself". The instrument indication and the chart excerpt with the drawn in aircraft and its position right next to it perfectly teach a spatial perception and the ability to fly according to IFR. This is also the first book for VFR pilots which explains in plain and understandable manner the pilot's navigational environment. Large colored illustrations provide an enjoyable reading of the book. Many drawings clarify the connection between practice and theory or ease the interpretation of one's own position. Especially the approaches like ILS, NDB-DME or just NDB are well illustrated. Numerous exercises in the appendix are a perfect supplement to the training material.'

RANT XL Release 3 is the latest, fully Vista compatible version of the Radio Aids Navigation Tutor and provides all the ground training a trainee pilot, who has never seen a VOR or NDB, needs to progress to being able to navigate the most complicated radio-aids navigation task - whether en-route or in the terminal area. Here is a completely re-engineered package which contains the tutorials and exercises that have made RANT so popular as a training tool but which has many new features and has been brought right up-to-date with photo-realistic instruments, including the Bendix/King Silver Crown range, and actual en-route, approach and departure charts, in association with Navtech/EAG Aerad. A full suite of context-sensitive help pages completes the product. RANT XL runs on computers using Windows ME, XP or Vista, with 64 Mbyte RAM, 16-bit colour and screen resolutions of 800 x 600 pixels or more. For enhanced visuals 1 GByte of RAM and minimum 1024x768 pixels resolution are required.