The flight test that I have booked this Thursday might just be a go!

The weather looks “decent” and could quite possibly be good enough for the actual exam. I’ve already booked the time off work.

The flight is in the morning, which means getting to the airport for 7am.

I have already started prepping for everything though, as I have school tomorrow night until 9pm and wont be able to do much prep work then.

I also have an economics test tomorrow too.

When it rains, it pours.

There are two types of instrument approaches called precision and non-precision.

Precision: A precision approach is able to guide the airplane in both the vertical (altitude) and horizontal (alignment with runway)

Non-Precision: A non-precision approach is only able to guide the airplane in the horizontal plane.

The most common precision approach is the ILS approach. It uses a narrow beam of radio waves that the plane (or pilot) follows to the runway. Planes and pilots can be certified to perform different types of ILS approaches, called “categories”.

Each category has a set of restrictions …