IFR X-Country Training: Which Approaches

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Key Takeaways:

  • Instrument rating training requires a 250-NM IFR cross-country flight, often called the "long cross-country."
  • A point of confusion has been clarifying which specific three approaches are required during this flight.
  • The current issue of *IFR Magazine* contains an article that resolves this confusion by sorting out the instrument cross-country training requirements.
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Any pilot who got an instrument rating in the last 25 years knows that part of the training requires a 250-NM (for airplanes) cross‑country flight under IFR. It is called the “long cross‑country” flight, although there’s no “short cross‑country” flight. That flight requires three approaches, but which three has been a source of confusion. The instrument cross-country training article in the current issue of IFR Magazine sorts it out. Read the story here. 

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