INTERCEPTOR

NEXT GENERATION IFR TRAINING MISSIONS

FOR FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2024

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"This is a package that you must, must use... Products like these are so vital... A fantastic way of building your skills and enhancing your knowledge... Very rewarding... Extremely useful... INTERCEPTOR is one of the best products for learning in an easy way... Super relevant to airliner flying... I think this is a superb product... It is very seamless, intuitive, incredibly well integrated into the simulator."

- British AvGeek

As the sky darkens and the horizon fades, you find yourself at the mercy of the elements, unless you unlock the hidden world of instrument flight. FS Academy - INTERCEPTOR will guide you beyond the mist, revealing the invisible pathways that pilots rely on to navigate the skies with precision and confidence.

Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) empower you to keep the show on the road, interpreting the silent language of your instrumentation, which will become your eyes and ears.

From legacy gauges to modern glass cockpits, you'll build IFR skills step by step, just like real-world pilots transitioning to advanced avionics.. Tune in to a range of navigation aids, including VOR, NDB and GPS to find your way aloft, before returning to Earth under the guidance of radio beams that direct you towards a safe touchdown.

INTERCEPTOR is an all-new, 30-mission training pack designed to get you flying IFR like a pro. Created by a real-world airline captain, this is the most authentic and immersive instrument flight experience available for Flight Simulator.

This expansive course will cover a wide range of essential topics, including:

Attitude flying on instruments
The instrument scan pattern
VOR and NDB navigation
Use of the Omni-Bearing Selector (OBS)
Navaid tuning, identification and displays
Instrumentation failures, known as partial panel.
Compass turns
DME arcs
Procedure Turns
Holding patterns and their entry procedures
Accounting for wind drift
Enroute turn anticipation
ILS, VOR and NDB approaches
Circling including with Prescribed Tracks
Holding pattern and interception exercises
Culminating in a two part Instrument Rating Skills Test

We use internationally compatible techniques and procedures to enable you to deploy your new skillset anywhere.

Don’t stay grounded when the rain closes in. Instrument flying is more than a science, it is an art. An unmissable piece of the puzzle for any professional pilot. Don’t miss this opportunity to hone your skills and open up these new possibilities. Demystify the dark art of IFR and depart with confidence on those grey and cloudy days.

The techniques you learn will stay with you forever, whether it be a lightweight Cessna or a heavy jet, upgrade your abilities and join the big leagues.

Take the first step towards IFR and embark upon an unforgettable and rewarding journey.

Your time has come.

LESSON PLANS

1 - INTRODUCTION

Get familiar with your new surroundings. Many of the gauges, dials and equipment in front of you will have been a mystery until now. Before we get airborne, we will introduce you to the essential tools you will employ throughout INTERCEPTOR.

2 - TURN CONTROL

After perfecting straight and level flight on instruments alone, utilising the T Scan pattern, we introduce Rate 1 turns and how to determine them.

3 - ALTITUDE CONTROL

Now we introduce the vertical dimension and add climb and descent attitudes to your toolbox. Setting pitch and power references and holding them steady will yield the results we require.

4 - ADVANCED HANDLING

Combine turns with climbs and descents to change direction and altitude simultaneously, stretching your capacity and reinforcing a disciplined scan pattern.

5 - VOR NAVIGATION 1

The invisible aerial pathways overhead are defined by radio beacons. The cornerstone of Radio Navigation is the VHF Omni-Directional Range, or VOR. Start to become familiar with operating an OBS and find your way to and from the beacon.

6 - VOR NAVIGATION 2

Enhance your VOR navigational abilities as we set and intercept a desired Radial TO or FROM a VOR station. These allow you to approach and depart a beacon from a chosen magnetic bearing.

7 - NDB NAVIGATION

The Non-Directional Beacon (NDB) is a simple but effective navigation aid where we are presented with a bearing towards the station. It is displayed on the Relative Bearing Indicator (RBI), which you will learn to understand.

8 - NAVIGATION EXERCISE

Solidify your new knowledge in this simple beacon to beacon IFR exercise. We will navigate to both NDB and VOR stations to reinforce what we have covered so far.

9 - PARTIAL PANEL 1

No sooner than getting to grips with your instrumentation must you learn to live without them. Learn to deal with equipment failures whilst flying IFR. You can compensate for the loss of certain instruments, but must recognise the symptoms to correctly diagnose the issue.

10 - PARTIAL PANEL 2

Maintain directional control by substituting your failed Heading Indicator with the classic magnetic compass. Once you have learned of its limitations it will become an invaluable backup when the odds are stacked against you.

11 - GLASS COCKPIT

Advance to the modern era and become accustomed to current-gen tech, known as the Glass Cockpit.

12 - SID

Become familiar with your new equipment and depart Jersey, following a Standard Instrument Departure (SID). Think of SIDs as the on-ramps to the IFR highway.

13 - GNSS NAVIGATION

Use satellite based navigation to fly between waypoints. There are subtle differences in how GPS positions are displayed and selected, which we will cover in this lesson.

14 - EFFECTS OF WIND

Learn to calculate and compensate for the effects of wind drift, accounting for wind direction, wind speed and aircraft ground speed to determine a drift angle correction.

15 - HOLD ENTRY : DIRECT

When approaching a holding fix near to the inbound CRS you can perform a Direct Entry, by flying to the beacon and turning in the holding direction.

16 - HOLD ENTRY : TEARDROP

A Teardrop or Offset Entry is flown by leaving the beacon on a TRK 30 degrees from the outbound course, before turning right to intercept the inbound course to the fix.

17 - HOLD ENTRY : PARALLEL

After crossing overhead the beacon, fly parallel to the outbound course. Then perform a long left turn to align yourself with the inbound course, returning to the fix.

18 - HOLDING WITH WIND

More complex wind corrections must be applied to holding patterns as we must apply triple the drift effect to our outbound HDG in order to set us up to intercept the inbound course.

19 - HOLDING EXERCISE

A holding pattern inbound course will be selected for you at random. We discuss the entry procedure and wind corrections before flying the holding entry. Repeat the lesson for another inbound course.

20 - DME ARC

Flying a DME arc requires you to fly around a beacon at a constant distance. We will discuss the 5 Up 5 Down strategy to divide the arc into multiple small turns.

21 - VOR APPROACH

What goes up must come down. We will explore the first of our Non-Precision or 2D approaches, starting with the VOR.

22 - NDB APPROACH

Another form of 2D approach, we will this time rely upon the NDB.

23 - ILS APPROACH

A crucial piece of the IFR puzzle, the Instrument Landing System (ILS) combines both lateral and vertical guidance to provide a high accuracy approach.

24 - CIRCLING APPROACH

Initially flying the ILS, we level off and break off the approach to fly a visual circuit to touchdown on the reciprocal runway.

25 - CIRCLING WITH PRESCRIBED TRACKS

Combine multiple skills to complete a Circling with Prescribed Tracks approach into Split, Croatia. Terrain prevents a conventional instrument approach so we will perform this special procedure.

26 - MISSED APPROACH

Not all IFR approaches go to plan. If not visual as you reach approach minima, a Missed Approach must be flown.

27 - INTERCEPTION EXERCISE

Now that you are getting comfortable with the digital avionics suite, we will put this to the test with a simple VOR radial tracking exercise.

28 - ENROUTE NAVIGATION

Navigate between VORs on a clear winters night. Intercept and follow radials from three navaids, accounting for drift to stay on course.

29 - IR SKILLS TEST Part 1

Apply your new skills to embark upon a virtual IR Skills Test with your examiner. Begin the test by navigating between navaids before moving on to Part 2.

30 - IR SKILLS TEST Part 2

Complete your IR Skills Test by performing a holding pattern entry then executing a VOR approach to land.