Every airport with an instrument approach must have some blessed IFR departure. But that doesn’t mean you can fly it, and the problem might not be climb rate.
Down to the Driggs
On a fine spring day, you trundled off to Driggs, Idaho, to meet your buddy and sneak off to the best-kept-secret fishing spot in the west Tetons. Your buddy made a killing because he was an Apple geek in the '80s and bought no stock but theirs. He chartered a plane to Driggs. You invested heavily in the DeLorean Motor Company-and arrived in your dads old 172H.
Key Takeaways:
- Under Part 91 regulations, pilots are not legally mandated to fly published IFR departure procedures, even if their aircraft lacks the required equipment (e.g., RNAV) for those procedures.
- However, departing without approved navigation for a published procedure, or attempting to follow it with an unapproved portable GPS, introduces significant safety risks and constitutes a regulatory violation with severe potential consequences.
- The article highlights a conflict between legal permissibility for Part 91 pilots to bypass published procedures and the inherent dangers of doing so without proper equipment, especially in challenging terrain and weather.
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