Instrument flight rules

Yeah.

So, so we're, we're doing that right now, doing our own IFR teaching and all that sort of stuff, um, within the regulations obviously.

Yep.

But, you know, we're just leveraging the regulations, leveraging the rules so that we can do things a little bit more efficient-

You have to fly an aircraft.

um and flying at first when you start flying in flight school it's like wow finally everything starts to make sense you see yourself sitting flying and it's one of the most beautiful parts of the training for sure if probably not the most beautiful when you start doing all your vfr all of this is very nice and it's it's simple to learn but then suddenly you reach a stage where you start to fly in IFR, so maybe for the people that don't quite understand, when you start to fly reading your instruments instead of navigating with your eyes by looking outside, this becomes more difficult because the workload increases a lot.

So they start to stress you more, you have to be very, very concentrated.

It's very easy to make a mistake and it's also necessary to make a mistake uh in order in order for you to learn so something that uh helped me with this is to try and have as i call it a good reset capability so what i mean by this is you make a mistake Okay, you made it.

At that moment...

There were 4,546 aircraft still airborne under IFR flight plans.

Wow.

And of the hundreds of thousands of passengers represented in those 4,500 plus aircraft, Canada took in 33,000 of them.

See and avoid.

Instrument flight rules, or IFR, separation services from approach and departure control if you're in controlled airspace.

Standard rules apply.

The aircraft looks unusual on a visual flight rules, or VFR, traffic pattern, but it flies the pattern the same way.

And all the notifications were made to ATC.

They were told specifically, "Notify us if there are any rescue helicopters in the way." They didn't say, "If there are any landing Ryanair [laughs] 737s in the way." The odd thing about it is that the controller read the notification, and the controller's interpretation was that the drones needed to be kept clear of only helicopters and VFR traffic, but not IFR traffic.

Now, every single airliner is on an IFR flight plan.

That, to me, [laughs] seems like a rather big oversight on their part.

So anyway, it just kinda s- goes to show as we develop these new systems, people are not gonna always get everything right, just like the accidental drone shoot-down where we're talking about.

This was way too close

And it could have been really catastrophic.

So it's definitely we've gotta get more communication, and if we're gonna be operating in these kind of areas, the, they need to up-train the pilots of the drones because if that kid was told not to worry about IFR because it was just mist, then that's, that's a communication issue on the Bundeswehr.