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IMC Club Hosts Packed IFR Proficiency Center

Oshkosh event a huge success.

The IMC Club’s IFR Proficiency Center at AirVenture Oshkosh has been busy all week, with well-attended educational talks hosted by experts from Jeppesen and instructor-guided training scenarios using Redbird simulators linked to live ATC through PilotEdge.

Sponsored by EAA, Hartzell, Jeppesen, Redbird and Flying magazine, the inaugural IFR Center has clearly demonstrated that proficiency matters, whether you’re a pilot who flies often in IMC or are hoping to regain proficiency.

The IMC Club simulator sessions are based on three scenarios each lasting 15 to 30 minutes. Pilots sit down at the Redbird sim, don a David Clark headset and start flying IFR flights in a Cessna 172 while talking with live PilotEdge air traffic controllers, who strive to make the scenarios as realistic as possible.

The Club on Wednesday presented its first “Brown Jacket” award to Andrew Dow, chief flight instructor at Great River Aviation and aviation program coordinator at Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois. The IMC Club International Brown Jacket will be presented each year to one general aviation pilot in recognition excellence in flight proficiency, continuing education and service to the aviation community.

IMC Club has nearly 100 chapters across the country and around the world, which meet each month for IFR-minded hangar flying discussions and learning.

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