Hold entries, the 1-2-3 rule, 600-2 and 800-2, 91.175, lost comms. You've read them three times and they still blur together. Here each topic fits on one page: the drawing first, then the numbers you need in a box. 81 illustrated pages.
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One topic per page, the drawing that shows you how it works, and boxes with what you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 76 topics.
You've read the control and performance method three times. You close the handbook...
...and you can't say which instruments you set and which ones you check. It was just one line after another.
Here, attitude flying is a drawn sequence: attitude and power on one side, the performance instruments on the other, and the four steps in order: establish, trim, cross-check, adjust.
And on the pages next to it, every topic gets its own: the scan and its three errors, unusual attitude recovery, the VOR, the ILS and the hold.
First you understand why it's done that way. Then the order sticks on its own.
The rating and your rules, instruments and equipment, attitude flying and human factors, navigation, IFR weather, charts and altitudes, planning and clearances, holds and approaches, and the final review: 81 pages, all illustrated
Picture this:
Instead of rereading half a page on hold entries without being able to picture them...
...you open the page and find the hold drawn from above, with the 70° line and the three entry sectors: direct, teardrop and parallel.
And the ILS, the minimums box, the alternate rule, 91.175 and lost comms turn into drawings and tables you can read at a glance.
You stop memorizing and start understanding.
That's what Instrument Rating Made Visual does: 9 parts, 76 illustrated topics, and at the end the look-alike numbers side by side and a test day checklist. What you see in order, you remember.
Because what your brain sees organized, it remembers.
What's on the IRA test, what it takes to earn the rating, when you must be instrument rated, 6 HITS in 6 months, the grace period and the IPC, and safety pilots.
The pitot-static system, blocked pitot vs blocked static, altimeter errors, the five kinds of altitude, gyros, ANDS and UNOS, the standard-rate turn, glass cockpit failures and IFR inspections.
Control and performance, primary and supporting instruments, the scan and its three errors, unusual attitudes, spatial disorientation, hypoxia and oxygen rules, and IMSAFE, PAVE and the hazardous attitudes.
VOR radials and reverse sensing, the ±4° and ±6° checks, service volumes, DME and slant range, the HSI, intercepting and tracking, the ILS, GPS with RAIM and WAAS, RNAV minimums and CDI sensitivity.
The standard atmosphere, stability and clouds, fronts, five types of fog, structural icing, thunderstorms, wind shear, METARs and TAFs, the GFA, AIRMETs, SIGMETs and PIREPs, and winds aloft.
Airspace from the IFR seat, the enroute low chart, MEA, MOCA and the other altitudes, cruising altitudes, ODPs and SIDs, takeoff minimums, STARs, the approach plate top to bottom and the Chart Supplement.
Filing the flight plan, fuel and the 1-2-3 rule, 600-2 and 800-2, copying a clearance with CRAFT, void times, VFR-on-top, required reports, radar services and lost comms.
Hold anatomy, the 70° line, solving a hold in 3 steps, holding speeds, approach segments, the procedure turn, DME arcs, DA vs MDA, the VDP, 91.175, circling and visual approaches, and the missed approach.
The look-alike numbers side by side, the most frequent mix-ups, your repeatable methods on one page and the test day checklist.
At the end of the book: A final review: the look-alike numbers side by side, your methods on one page and a test day checklist.
Practice on redrawn approach plates, SIDs, STARs and enroute chart excerpts, with every answer worked out in the same steps as the book, so reading a chart under pressure becomes routine.
Quick-review cards that put the look-alike rules side by side (1-2-3 vs 600-2/800-2, MEA vs MOCA, ANDS vs UNOS), plus what you need on test day: your instructor endorsement or home-study endorsement, PSI registration and what to bring.
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PDF by email: Instrument Rating Made Visual reaches your inbox as a PDF, and the two free books come by email too. One-time payment, no installments or hidden costs.
Instruments, navigation, weather and charts, one topic per page, to review between lessons with your CFII.
A review of every area in the order of the ACS, and at the end the look-alike numbers side by side and a test day checklist.
A quick visual refresher before an IPC or a trip: currency, alternates, 91.175 and lost comms, one page each.
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You have 30 days to try Instrument Rating Made Visual and the two bonus books. If it doesn't work for you, email us, tell us what didn't work, and we'll refund 100% of what you paid. One-time payment, no subscription.
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For private pilots preparing for the FAA Instrument Rating – Airplane (IRA) knowledge test, pilots training with a CFII, and instrument-rated pilots who want a visual refresher before an IPC. It assumes you already hold your private pilot certificate: it doesn't reteach VFR basics, it starts at instrument level. It covers U.S. FAA rules only. Check the table of contents above to see every topic.
The current Instrument Rating – Airplane ACS, the Instrument Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-15), the Instrument Procedures Handbook (FAA-H-8083-16), the AIM, the Aviation Weather Handbook (FAA-H-8083-28), 14 CFR Parts 61 and 91 and the FAA-CT-8080-3 testing supplement. Every rule and number was checked against these sources, and the order follows the ACS.
No. It's independent study material. It is not published by, affiliated with or endorsed by the FAA or PSI. Every chart and approach plate is an explanatory redrawing marked “Not for navigation.”
No. It works alongside your ground school, your question bank, your CFII and the FAA handbooks. Your question bank tells you the right answer; these pages show you why: why that hold entry, why that alternate, why those minimums. You still need your instructor's endorsement to take the test. The pages on hypoxia, disorientation and IMSAFE cover test content, not medical advice.
No. The drills and practice items are written for this book. They aren't official FAA test questions: they're there to help you practice.
Yes. It's a high-resolution PDF, so you can print the whole book or just the pages you want at your desk or in your flight bag.
You have 30 days. Tell us what didn't work and we'll refund 100%.
You don't have to reread the same page hoping it sticks this time.
You don't have to memorize rules you can't picture.
And you definitely don't have to walk into the test not knowing where to start.
There's an easier way. And it's one click away. Now it's your turn.
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