Instrument Rating · Airplane

Build the route.
Protect the escape.

A source-backed workspace for connecting IFR legality, weather, systems, clearances, instrument control, navigation, approaches, and changing flight decisions. Explore in any order.

FrameworkInstrument Airplane ACS
ScopeAirplane · ASEL focus
SourcesFAA · eCFR · Aircraft documents
AccessNo account required
Set a heading

What are you working on today?

This changes the recommended starting point without locking you into a sequence or measuring completion.

Mission board

Six systems behind instrument flight.

The ACS remains underneath the dashboard, but the material is grouped by the decisions and dependencies that hold an IFR flight together.

Why it matters

ACS footprint
Threads to pull
5-Link connections
    Tools and planned builds
    Primary authority and guidance
    Pinned topics
    5-Link generator

    Follow one IFR condition into a defensible decision.

    High-ticket radar

    Subjects that carry a wide footprint.

    These are not predictions about a particular examiner. They are foundational instrument subjects that connect to multiple ACS elements and decisions across an entire IFR flight.

    Tool bay

    Open what is live. See what comes next.

    Blue cards are operational. White dashed cards are planned and deliberately have no dead links.

    Source desk

    The authority behind the dashboard.

    The ACS defines the certification standard. Regulations control. FAA guidance and aircraft documents supply explanation and operating detail for instrument operations. This ASEL-focused dashboard excludes the multiengine-only engine-inoperative Tasks in Area VII.

    Open the governing material.

    Every dashboard thread should terminate in a source that can be independently checked.