IFR Preflight Checklists Flashcards
Personal documents required for flight
Pilot certificate
Medical certificate
Photo ID
Radio license if necessary
Aircraft requirements required for flight
ARROW
Airworthiness certificate
Registration
Radio license
Operating limitations (POH)
Weight and balance
Aircraft maintenance inspections
AV1ATE
Annual every 12 calendar months
VOR every 30 days
100 hour
Altimeter, altitude reporting, and static system every 24 calendar months
Transponder every 24 calendar months
ELT inspection every 12 calendar months. Or battery must be replaced after more than one hour of cumulative use or 50% of its useful life has expired
Preflight info required for IFR
NWKRAFT
NOTAMS
Weather
Known ATC delays
Runway length
Alternates if applicable
Fuel requirements
Takeoff and landing performance data
Taxi briefing
ARCH
Assigned/planned runway
Route
Crossing and hold short instructions
Hot spots
*sterile cockpit, correct for winds, see something say something
IFR minimum fuel requirements
Fuel from departure to destination airport + fuel from destination to most distant alternate + 45 minutes at normal cruising speed
Instrument check
Airspeed reads 0
Attitude indicator blue over brown within 5 degrees
Altimeter within 75 feet of airport elevation
Turn coordinator wings level ball centered
HSI matches with mag compass, compass has no cracks bubbles or leaks
VSI reads 0
Compass deviation card
Clock working to seconds
First protected turn check
Airspeed 0
Wing dips in ball swings out
Blue over brown within 5 degrees
HSI matching with magnetic compass
Mag compass swinging freely
VSI reads zero
Minimum equipment required for IFR day flight
For IFR day: all VFR day equipment and GRABCARD
G - generator or alternator
R - radios. Two way radio communication and navigational equipment suitable for the route to be flown
A - altimeter sensitive for barometric pressure
B - ball (slip skid indicator)
C - clock (installed as aircraft equipment)
A - attitude indicator
R - rate of turn indicator
D - directional gyro
