Instrument Rating Lessons | Epic Flight Academy - Instrument Rating Course: 3.4.1 - Visual & Contact

Welcome back to Epic Flight Academy’s Instrument Rating Course! In this lesson, Mike Thompson explains the differences between Visual Approaches and Contact Approaches, two procedures that help instrument-rated pilots safely transition from IFR to VFR conditions when approaching their destination. You’ll learn the weather and visibility conditions required for each approach, when pilots can request a visual or contact approach, and how air traffic control coordination ensures a safe transition. Mike also discusses published visual approaches, their chart details, and why situational awareness is critical during these segments of flight. By the end of this video, you’ll understand when and how to execute these approaches, as well as the regulatory and procedural differences between them under IFR operations. #InstrumentRating #IFRTraining #InstrumentPilot #EpicFlightAcademy #FlightTraining #LearnToFly #Aviation 📘 Video Chapters 0:00 – Introduction 1:20 – What Is a Visual Approach? 1:35 – Conditions for a Visual Approach 2:50 – Can a Pilot Request a Visual Approach? 3:30 – What Is a Published Visual Approach? 4:40 – What Is a Contact Approach? 6:22 – Summary ✈️ 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/