Now that I've completed my private pilot training, I'm working on my IFR instrument rating. This is a practice GPS RNAV-Z approach to Runway 10 at Syracuse International Airport (KSYR) in Syracuse, NY.
Foggles: amzn.to/3y21D7t
The glasses I'm wearing (, known as "Foggles", prevent me from being able to see out the windows and eliminates any reference I have to the ground or horizon. This simulates what it's like flying through clouds, which obscures your vision and eliminates ground and horizon references. While I'm wearing the goggles, all I can see is the instrument panel gauges in front of me and I'm not able to see out the windows until I take off the glasses a few seconds before landing. The "minimums", or decision altitude, for this particular approach, is 200 FT AGL (above ground level), so when I take off the foggles, I'm only 200 feet above the runway.
These are the specific brand of foggles I wear while flying IFR simulated instrument approach practice: amzn.to/3y21D7t
This was flown in my club's Piper Cherokee 180 (PA-28-180) which is based at the Canandaigua Airport (KIUA) in Canandaigua, NY which is in the Finger Lakes region just outside of Rochester, NY.
16 окт 2024
