Objective: During this stage check, an authorized flight instructor will determine if the pilot is proficient in attitude instrument flying and in the use of navigation equipment.

Text References:

Instrument Pilot Flight Maneuvers and Practical Test Prep (FM)

Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH)

Content

1. Flight Lesson 12 complete? Yes ___ Copy of lesson placed in pilot’s folder? Yes ___

2. Preflight briefing

3. Stage check tasks

a. Preflight procedures

Airplane systems related to IFR operations

Airplane flight instruments and navigation equipment

Instrument flight deck check

b. Attitude instrument flying --full and partial panel unless otherwise indicated

Straight-and-level flight

Change of airspeed

Constant airspeed climbs and descents

Rate climbs and descents

Timed turns to magnetic compass headings

Magnetic compass turns (partial panel only)

Steep turns (full panel only)

Recovery from unusual flight attitudes

c. Navigation systems

Intercepting and tracking VOR radials

Intercepting and tracking DME arcs

Tracking a GPS course

Tracking a localizer

Additional items at CFI’s discretion

4. Postflight critique and preview of next lesson

Completion Standards

The lesson and Stage One will have been successfully completed when the pilot can demonstrate proficiency in attitude instrument flights (full and partial panel) and navigation procedures. The pilot will be able to maintain the desired altitude, ±100 ft.; airspeed, ±10 kt.; heading, ±5°; rate of climb, ±100 fpm; DME arc, ±2 NM; to roll out on the desired heading, ±10°; and to track a VOR radial or a GPS course with no more than a 3/4-scale deflection of the CDI or within 10° in the case of an RMI.