IFR VIP Podcast
Complete Online Ground School + Bonus Lessons in Dedicated Audio on your Favorite Podcast App
Lifetime Access to our complete library of IFR audio lessons, allowing you to listen and learn your Ground School knowledge everywhere you go!
Or get the VIP Podcast included for life when you Purchase our Online Ground School
ONLY $127 for unlimited and lifetime access to:
Every single IFR ground lesson in dedicated audio… Ad FREE
It would technically be an audio lesson if we just took the audio of the video lessons in our Online Ground School. But that’s NOT what this is.
Videos expect you to be able to see things. This dedicated audio knows you are listening to learn and describes the content and images with metaphors and plain English.
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Listen on your favorite Podcast App
As soon as you’ll join, you’ll get an email with an access code and instructions to join via your favorite FREE Podcast App. Our VIP Podcast supports:
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Download and Listen everywhere you go… even Offline
The best part about accessing the audio lessons in your favorite Podcast App is that you have the added features of the app.
Download for offline listening. Fast-forward. Rewind. Listen on 1x, 1.5x or 2x speed. And more!
Full Lesson List. Created following the IFR Rating Airmen Certificate Standards (ACS), structured for optimal learning:
IFR Aircraft Instruments
- Altitudes
- IFR Altimeter Operations
- Pitot-Static Instruments
- Vacuum/Gyro Instruments
- Turns & Turn Rates
- Magnetic Compass
- Flight with Instruments
- Recovery from Unusual Attitudes
- Digital Flight Displays
- GPS
- Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Range (VORs)
- Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)
- Instrument Landing System (ILS)
- Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI)
- Flying the Glideslope & Localizer
- Non-Directional Beacons (NDBs)
- Radio Magnetic Indicators (RMIs)
IFR Regulations
- Flying in IMC
- IFR Flight Plan
- IFR Currency & Logging Time
- Alcohol & Drugs
- Preflight
- Off Airway Altitude Requirements
- Required Equipment for IFR
- Required Inspections
- Alternate Airport & Fuel Requirements
- Transponder Requirements
- Transponder Requirements
- Accidents & Incidents
- Sterile Cockpit
Weather
- Global Air Circulation & Wind
- Air Masses & Frontal Systems
- Air Stability & Lapse Rates
- High Altitude Atmosphere
- Temperature Inversions
- Clouds
- Fog
- Frost
- Icing
- De-Icing Techniques
- Thunderstorms
- Wind Shear & Microbursts
- METARs & TAFs
- PIREPs
- Winds & Temperatures Aloft
- Graphical Forecasts for Aviation (GFA)
- Surface Analysis & Weather Depiction Charts
- Significant Weather Prognostic Charts
- Other Charts & Weather Advisories
IFR Navigation
- Ground Based Navigation (HSI, VOR & DME)
- VOR & DME Checks
- VOR Navigation Limitations
- GPS & Area Navigation (RNAV)
- IFR Charts
- IFR Airway Altitudes
- Communication Frequencies
- Extra VOR & HSI Questions
National Airspace System
- Flight Rules & Airspace
- Class A
- Class B
- Class C
- Class D
- Class E
- Class G
- Transition Areas
- Special Use Airspace
Departure & Arrival Procedures
- Departure Procedures
- Arrival Procedures
Instrument Approach Procedures
- Approach Charts/Plates Overview
- Course Reversals
- Holding Pattern Instructions & Entries
- Holding Pattern Speeds & Timing
- Airport Diagram & Lighting
- Approach Segments & Identifying Fixes
- Approach Arcs with DMEs & RMIs
- Approach Descent
- Approach Procedures
- Other Localizer Approach Procedures
- RNAV GPS Approaches
- Other Helpful Approach Procedures
- Alternate Minimums
- Missed Approaches
- More Approach Chart Information & Notes
- Inoperative Components
IFR Flight Plans
- Filing an IFR Flight Plan
- Information for Flight Planning
- Flight Planning Calculations
Airport Operations
- Taxi-way & Runway Lighting Systems
- Taxi-way & Runway Signs & Markings
- Takeoff & Landing Hazards
- Airport Automated Weather
ATC Communications
- Receiving Initial Clearance
- Radar Vectors & Traffic
- IFR Compulsory Reports
- Emergencies
- Visual Approach Clearance
- Contact Approach Clearance
- Cruise Clearance
- VFR-on-Top-Clearance
- Other Clearances
- Read Backs
- ATC Instructions
- Land & Hold Short Operations
Human Factors
- Supplemental Oxygen
- Hypoxia
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Hyperventilation
- Spatial Disorientation & Illusions
- Night Flying & Night Illusions
- Stress & Fatigue
BONUS Lessons:
The VIP Podcast also comes with a variety of important subject lessons NOT covered in your normal ground school curriculum. Such as:
- The 5 Step Study Hack I’ve Used to Pass Every Test
- The SR71 Blackbird
- Buying your Own Aircraft
- Interview with AviationConversation’s Shannon Torres on Stress
- Interview with Sleep Expert Andi Clark
- Interview with Former MLB All Star Bob Tewksbury on Mental Performance
- Perfecting your Landings
- How to Become an Airline Pilot
- Day in the Life of a Student Pilot
- Day in the Life of a CFI
- Day in the Life of a Member of the Air Force, CFII and Future Airline Pilot
- My First Experience at Osh Kosh
- Day in the Life of the Calm Cockpit Podcast
- And more…