[skidz]

I had a stage check today. This is the first out of three stage checks for my instrument rating. Before I went flying, we covered some of the ground stuff, and I had to take a stage check written test. For the stage check we took of north to Hammond, I was tracking the Hammond VOR and then a 9 Nm arc around it to line up for localizer approach to Hammond. After tracking the outbound loc course we did some unusual attitudes, compass turns and timing, DG and AI failure and then the GPS tracking back to Lakefront. We also did changes in altitudes, speeds and steep turns. This is basically the basics of IFR flying and tomorrow we will start on the approaches and more holdings and that will be the stage two. Will keep posting it here as it gets more interesting.