HWC%S1-A@sri-unix.UUCP (11/08/83)
From: Hon Wah Chin <HWC@S1-A> Does anyone have suggestions of where in the San Francisco Bay Area is there a good outfit to get IFR instruction, assuming the written has already been passed?
daver@hp-pcd.UUCP (daver) (11/14/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-1347200:hp-kirk:5500017:000:828 hp-kirk!daver Nov 12 13:47:00 1983 I would strongly recommend starting by taking an instrument simulator class at a local community college (I took mine at Foothill College but there are others in the area with such courses). The course is surprisingly inexpensive and I found that one hour of simulator time with a good instructor is equivalent to considerably more time in an aircraft, and the simulator time you log with an instructor counts toward your required 40 hours. As for which FBO to go to, I did my training at Amelia Reid Aviation at Reid Hillview airport, but I think the instructor is more important than the FBO and there are good CFIIs (and bad) working at just about every FBO which offers instrument instruction. Good luck, Dave Rabinowitz hp-pcd!daver