On The Cover: Whether a given IFR flight is "hard" or not is in the eye of the beholder. Given what we can see nearing the airport in the cover image, we might want to delay prepping this JetPROP DLX for departure until the bad stuff passes by. After all, we don't want to make hard IFR too hard. See page 16 for ore. Image by Paul Sanchez.
Pull up a digital copy of the FAA’s regulations and search for “hard IFR.” Can’t find it anywhere in the FARs, can you? That’s because it’s one of those terms that everybody understands on one level but really can’t agree on a definition for. It’s a popular term though: you’ll hear it from instructors, hangar-flying […]
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