Instrument rating trial lesson – your next step

Experience Professional Instrument Flying

Ready to expand your capabilities as a pilot? The Instrument Rating represents a major step toward true operational freedom — allowing you to fly with precision, confidence, and control, independent of outside visual references.

This Instrument Rating trial lesson is designed for pilots who want a realistic introduction to instrument flight training or are considering starting their full IR. It offers a hands-on, technically accurate experience that reflects real-world IFR operations and training standards.

What to Expect from Your Instrument Rating Trial Lesson

This session combines structured ground instruction with practical flight training, providing a clear insight into the skills, discipline, and situational awareness required for instrument flying.

Technical Briefing

Your lesson begins with an in-depth briefing led by a qualified instrument instructor. Topics include:

• Principles of instrument flight and aircraft control without external visual references
• Instrument scan techniques and workload management
• Attitude instrument flying and power-performance relationships
• Spatial disorientation and human factors
• Basic IFR navigation concepts and situational awareness
• Safety procedures and decision-making in instrument conditions

The briefing is tailored to your experience level and reflects current instrument training philosophy, ensuring you understand not just what to do, but why it’s done that way.

Flight Training

Following the briefing, you’ll enter a focused training environment where flying by reference to instruments becomes the primary task. Under the close supervision of an experienced instructor, you’ll fly for approximately one hour, practicing:

• Straight and level flight using full instrument scan
• Standard rate turns, climbs, and descents
• Power and configuration changes under instrument conditions
• Basic instrument navigation and orientation exercises

You will be handling the controls for most of the flight, gaining firsthand experience of the precision, structure, and mental discipline required for IFR flying. This trial lesson accurately reflects the pace and standards of formal Instrument Rating training.

Why Choose an Instrument Rating Trial Lesson?

• Experience professional-level instrument training before committing to the full rating
• Improve accuracy, situational awareness, and confidence
• Gain insight into real-world IFR procedures and workload
• Ideal preparation for advanced training or career-oriented flying

Practical Information

• Proof of identification required (ID card or passport)
• Spoken languages: Dutch & English
• Number of participants: 1
• Season: Year-round
• Minimum age: 14 years
• Minimum height: 1.50 m
• Maximum weight: On request
• Activity: Instrument Rating trial lesson
• Duration: Block time
• Voucher validity: 1 year