We Help You Pass Our free online study guide really works. You can study for your FAA private pilot ground school exam right now. For more info about the 4VFR.COM project, click here. You can find a daily update log here. Live ATC Audio Streams Tune into live air traffic control frequencies from North America. This feature requires Real player. Start listening to ATC now! Reference Library Our glossary lists and databases have grown quickly. I am working to create an on-line reference library to tie together all the loose ends. You can check out what is currently available in the library FAA Practice Exam - New! Introducing our newly enhanced practice exam. Now with figures!. Take a test a day for a week, and I guarantee you will do better on your exam. Get Started Now! Show your support for 4VFR.COM - Link us. Bookmark us. Tell your mother about us. Press CTRL-D to bookmark this site now!. Check out one of our proposed T-Shirt Designs. Feature Article: VFR to IFR Options What to do? If you're on top, do the four C's. Climb, communicate, confess, comply. If fuel and weather limits your ability to find a VFR escape route. Don't delay, find an area in which to descend to VFR below. ATC vectors may get you to the area but you must know how to make a safe decent. As a student the maneuvers below should be a 'hood' exercise with your instructor. Some practice now may solve a future problem by having a pre-planned solution. Try it until you can do it. When the need for performance occurs you can advise ATC of your ability to perform an IFR climb or descent in a declared emergency. One way follows. There are other ways. Pay our money and take your choice. Assume that all instruments are functional. Get on a cardinal heading, C.H. power to 2000 rpm, and trim for 60 knots. Let go of the yoke and hold heading with rudder. Slowly decrease power to 1500 rpm and descend at 60 knots using only rudder. If the terrain below is completely unknown as to cloud clearance and terrain elevation. Do the process with full flaps and airspeeds as low as 45 knots. The worse thing you can do is a spiraling descent. If you are below a cloud deck with a known top attainable by your aircraft and fuel remaining, initiate a VFR to IFR to VFR climb using much the same technique as the descent. Well below the cloud base, initiate a 65-knot climb and trim for hands off. Let go of the yoke and hold a cardinal heading with only the rudder. Once on top you should know if an escape VFR airport is within range. Hopefully, you will never need an emergency option. You should practice recognition of weather so as to initiate the 180 escape before it cant be done. When the turn is only possible in IFR conditions you must know enough to totally rely on your instruments. Any effort to mix IFR with VFR is doomed to failure. Use the turn coordinator to limit the bank to a standard rate. Better yet learn the amount of bank on the HI that gives the standard rate for your airspeed. Last Modified December 26, ©2025 TAGE.COM Related Links Featured Articles Introduction To The Radio Introduction to The Radio Minimum Equipment List Runup Maintenance Records Cross-Country Planning FAR Violations In Decending Order Recall Statistics The Competence of Incompetence Teaching precepts Warning Areas Forced Landings The Compass Ear Block Service Difficulty Reports (SDRs) More Flight Training Articles... Student Kudos "Wow! Thank you for this wonderful website! I am so thriled to have found it! I am a college student also, and like most students, I am forever short on cash. You have no idea how much this is helping me, I will be a frequent visitor. Thanks again, KO." - K O