Another approach for Instrument Flight Training

Any licensed private pilot who has tried to earn their instrument rating know that traditional instrument flying training can be slow, frustrating and unnecessarily redundant. Medford, Oregon-based Certified Flight Instructor Field Morey realized long ago that he needed to get his instrument students away from the distractions of day to day lives so that they can focus on the process of learning IFR mastery.
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To separate life of flying schools, Morey takes two students at a time on what he calls “West Coast Adventure Flights” across six days flying across the American West. He has used this technique to teach instrument flying more than 40 years, with more than 600 hours toward building their pilots IFR rating, while seeing the western United States from within Morey in 2008 Cessna Skylane T182T aircraft.
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Morey offers three different flight IFR Adventure: L 1
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The Alaska Adventure is an incredible space for a week of flight training while enjoying the majestic scenery and grandeur of the great American wilderness. On this once-in-a-lifetime journey is as important as the six days of IFR flight training you receive, much as it is the nature of real-world that is found in IMC Alaska.
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After leaving Medford, IFR flight students to cross over into Canada and clear Canadian customs using CANPASS. The flight then travels north along the coast British Columbia, and after clearing U.S. customs in Ketchikan, the tour has scheduled stops in Anchorage, Sitka, Yakutat, Cordova, Juneau, and other points of interest. If the weather allows, students can see Mt. McKinley (Denali). L 1
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For pilots to learn to fly and backcountry operations, Morey, the Wilderness Adventure Flight, a six-day flight instrument designed as a refresher and a chance to learn the skills to work in the Idaho backcountry.
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The course begins in Medford with two flight students and Morey travel north into Washington, Idaho and Montana to learn the ins and outs “of the action from the mountains and canyon comics techniques. On this adventure, pilots time to walking, fishing or just relax and enjoy the solitude of Idaho Wilderness.
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Pilot and flight student Blake Picquet Fort Worth, TX was one of Morey’s students on this adventure a few years ago. “Never will you have another opportunity to become a legendary instructor to combine the panoramic view and the intensity of the Idaho backcountry. The result is a journey that all your skills to the test … commercial, instrument, and of course, fly, “Picquet said.
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Morey also offers the Rockies Adventure Flight, a six-day course that combines IFR techniques with a wonderful mountain scenery of the Rockies and American Southwest. After stops in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona, the program is still in the busy Class Bravo airspace of the Los Angeles and San Francisco regions before arriving back in Medford, Oregon.
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One aspect of Morey’s Adventure Flight is a brand new Cessna 182 Skylane with glass cockpit. The turbo Skylane, the extra performance needed in the mountainous areas, with extra power to climb over the ice in the winter months. The aircraft has a full Garmin G1000 instrument panel and will soon be equipped with Garmin’s “Synthetic Vision Technology plus TAWS-B terrain and obstruction data, GDL-69 Datalink XM Weather and Radio, and Garmin GFC700 Autopilot, Morey is even equipped Skylane with Bose noise-canceling headphones for a quiet workout environment.
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The program has proved such a success would be all movements during training season in 2008, Morey easily sold. He has launched a new website that is sure to continue making its West Coast Adventure flights one of the most popular IFR training programs in the country.

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