Instrument Rating Course: 4.3.2 - Airways & Altitudes

Welcome back to Epic Flight Academy’s Instrument Rating Course!
In this lesson, Mike Thompson is joined by Shane Williams, Epic’s Director of Flight Operations, to explain the essential airways and altitude concepts every instrument pilot must know.

You’ll learn how to read Low Enroute Charts, understand the purpose of transatlantic and military training routes, and interpret the meanings behind various IFR altitude types, including MEA, MOCA, MRA, MCA, MAA, and OROCA. Mike and Shane break down each term with clear examples to help you apply this knowledge during real-world IFR navigation and flight planning.

By the end of this video, you’ll know how to navigate airways safely, comply with altitude requirements, and interpret all the key data found on IFR charts.

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📘 Video Chapters

0:00 – Introduction
1:51 – Low-Enroute Chart
2:20 – Transatlantic Routes
3:15 – Military Training Routes
3:57 – Minimum Enroute Altitude (MEA)
4:25 – Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA)
4:59 – Minimum Reception Altitude (MRA)
5:25 – Minimum Crossing Altitude (MCA)
5:50 – Maximum Authorized Altitude (MAA)
6:05 – Off Route Obstruction Clearance Altitude (OROCA)
6:44 – Distances
8:00 – Lesson Summary

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This course is taught by Epic Flight Academy's own Mike Thompson. Mike Thompson is the author of "Telling Is Not Teaching", which promotes the idea that the “new school” of teaching that embraces electronic technology cannot sacrifice the “old school” of human relationships because the human brain stills learns in largely the same way that it has for millennia.

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