IFR Refresher

I had booked another flight with an instructor in order to get a bit more confidence flying in the system.  While we actually got rained out that morning we did spend a few hours in a classroom discussing icing, procedures, and transitions from cruise to the approach.

He also dug this book out of his flight back and asked me to go over it.  It is an older book and it is written from a few points of view.  Each chapter has a section by a very experienced instructor, as well as a section by one of his students.

They cover all aspects of IFR flying (except for GPS based RNAV) and go back and forth between them in this manner for all of it.

The book is practical and written for general aviation pilots in mind.  I found it useful although it's focus on learning from fatal accidents is rather off-putting at times.  The straightforward style of the prose makes it easy to imagine myself flying as they describe it, and learning from their mistakes.

The authors' are focused on weather as a hazard.  The workload of managing an IFR flight is discussed, but for them it is icing and thunderstorms that are most troubling.  They discuss accident statistics and classify accident causes, and then write several sections addressing those specific situations.

I found it a pleasure to read and I have cracked it open several times in order to go over another section.  It is an older book and doesn't discuss RNAV although there may be a new revision.