Unfortunately the weather is not always perfect, even though we would all loveit if it was sunny and 90º everyday.  Your instrument rating is crucial if you plan on flying in less than perfect weather.  During this stage of your flight training you will be taught how to fly instrument approaches, learn basic attitude instrument flying, and how to interpret instrument enroute and approach charts.  Obtaining your instrument rating will be challenging and often confusing at times, but will be the most rewarding once completed and leave you with the foundation you need to be a successful commercial pilot.

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Before you start flying approaches and executing holds over a VOR, you have to have a solid foundation to build off of.  If you jump straight into VOR or ILS approaches without working on (BAI) basic attitude instrument flying than your going to struggle and get extremely frustrated.  BAI is exactly what it says, it's the basics, your going to learn how to scan your instruments while flying straight and level, doing constant rate turns and descents, and tracking to or from a station (all while solely referencing your flight instruments).  When your flying an approach, your talking to ATC, reading your charts, interpreting all of your instruments and if your not 100% comfortable with basic attitude flying, your going to struggle with the workload placed on you (and your progress will suffer as well).  The instrument rating is divided into two phases;

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