Waypoints PilotBooks Vol 9 - The Instrument Rating Manual - September 2025

This manual is aimed at providing the knowledge required by candidates for the New Zealand Instrument Rating examinations in the subjects ‘Instruments and Navigation Aids’ and ‘Flight Navigation IFR’. The manual is in two parts to reflect those two separate but related subjects.

The material in Part 1 covers the NZCAA syllabus for the Instruments and Navigation Aids (AC61-17 subject 56) examination. It should be noted that Chapter 10 on GNSS also provides, in effect, a pilot training syllabus for the Instrument Rating GPS endorsement. This chapter has again been updated in this edition of the manual.

Part 2 gives a comprehensive coverage of the topics associated with Flight Navigation IFR (AC61-17 subject 54). The text is based on the assumption that the reader is familiar with the contents of our Waypoints PilotBooks Volume 2, Navigation and Flight Planning.