Instrument Rating Lessons | Epic Flight Academy - Instrument Rating Course: 3.1.2 - Landing Requirements

Welcome back to Epic Flight Academy’s Instrument Rating Course! In this lesson, Mike Thompson breaks down the landing requirements for IFR pilots under FAR 91.175. Before any pilot can land in instrument conditions, specific visibility, lighting, and approach criteria must be met to ensure a safe and stabilized approach. Mike explains the three essential requirements to land under IFR, followed by an in-depth look at visibility types, approach lighting systems (ALS), and the many runway lighting and marking systems that guide pilots to a safe touchdown. You’ll learn how to identify and interpret threshold lights, runway end identifier lights (REILs), glideslope indicators, and touchdown zone markings—all crucial for landing when the runway isn’t clearly visible. By the end of this video, you’ll have a strong understanding of how to determine when a landing is legally and safely permitted under instrument flight rules. #InstrumentRating #IFRTraining #InstrumentPilot #EpicFlightAcademy #FlightTraining #LearnToFly #Aviation 📘 Video Chapters 0:00 – Introduction 1:15 – What Are the 3 Requirements to Land IFR? 2:05 – FAR 91.175 3:43 – 3 Types of Visibility 5:28 – Approach Lighting System (ALS) 6:13 – Threshold, Threshold Markers, and Threshold Lighting 6:45 – Runway End Identifier Lights (REILs) 7:06 – Glideslope Indicator 7:17 – Touchdown Zone Markings and Lighting 7:40 – Runway or Runway Markings 7:52 – Runway Lights ✈️ Start Your Instrument Rating Training: https://epicflightacademy.com/prequalification-enrollment 📚 Learn more about Epic Flight Academy’s Instrument Rating Course: https://epicflightacademy.com/instrument-rating/ This course is taught by Epic Flight Academy's own Mike Thompson. Mike Thompson is the author of "Telling Is Not Teaching", which promotes the idea that the “new school” of teaching that embraces electronic technology cannot sacrifice the “old school” of human relationships because the human brain stills learns in largely the same way that it has for millennia. "Telling Is Not Teaching" : https://www.amazon.com/Telling-Not-Teaching-Instructors-Handbook-ebook/dp/B0752BPPW7 Enjoying our content? Like this video and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel so we can continue to produce more Epic content! Follow us on social media to stay up to date on EVERYTHING happening at Epic Flight Academy! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/epicflightacademy Twitter: https://twitter.com/epicfltacademy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/epicflightacademy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/epic-flight-academy Website: https://epicflightacademy.com/