Instrument Rating Lessons | Epic Flight Academy - Instrument Rating Course: 4.5.1 - Cross Country Planning, Preliminaries

Welcome back to Epic Flight Academy’s Instrument Rating Course! In this lesson, Mike Thompson teams up with Austin DiCola to walk through the fundamentals of IFR cross-country flight planning. Before wheels-up, every instrument pilot must know how to properly prepare, evaluate risks, and ensure compliance with FAA regulations and weather considerations. You’ll learn how to conduct thorough preflight planning using the PAVE checklist, review NOTAMs, assess weather conditions, calculate fuel requirements, and determine takeoff and landing performance data. Austin and Mike also discuss alternate airport planning and how to anticipate ATC delays and environmental factors that may affect your flight. By the end of this video, you’ll know how to effectively plan an IFR cross-country from start to finish and understand the key elements that keep your flight safe, efficient, and compliant. #InstrumentRating #IFRTraining #InstrumentPilot #FlightTraining #EpicFlightAcademy #LearnToFly #PilotTraining #Aviation 📘 Video Chapters 0:00 – Introduction 1:06 – IFR Cross-Country Planning 1:35 – Preflight Action – PAVE Checklist 3:05 – Environmental and External Factors 3:27 – NOTAMs 4:08 – Weather Information 4:26 – ATC Delays 5:09 – Runway Lengths & Airport Information 5:48 – Alternate Airports 6:07 – Fuel Requirements 6:50 – Takeoff & Landing Data / Performance Data 7:33 – Lesson 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/