The East Coast IFR Experience (ECIE) is a five-day aviation adventure developed by master instructor Doug Stewart. It takes a pilot through some of the most demanding real world flying scenarios that one would encounter in years of normal flight. The ECIE program begins at the mountains of New England, proceeds southwest over the Catskills, the Poconos, Appalachians and through North and South Carolina, Georgia, and south Florida. The return trip proceeds up the east coast all the way to Maine, then back over the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire to ultimately, where the trip started, Columbia County Airport (1B1) at Hudson, NY.

All along the way Doug challenges the pilot to fly some of the most difficult instrument procedures available. This includes all types of approaches, departures, communications, partial panel flight, flight planning, weather briefings, radio navigation, and more. Doug will also share personal techniques and best practices he has learned from thousands of hours of IFR flight. Over the course of the five days, pilots can expect to log over 30 hours of flight time, 20+ approaches, landings and departures.

As you can imagine the price of such a trip is significant and not within everyone's budget. However Community Aviation filmed and documented the entire trip so that you can come along for a fraction of the cost. Join Doug and his pilot in training, Billy Winburn, as they cover over 3,000 miles up and down the east coast of the US. Filmed professionally by passenger, videographer Alex Bryant of Kaiman Brothers Media.

The program is organized so that you can watch the entire five-day trip, leg by leg, as if you were seated in the back of Doug's Cessna 177RG Cardinal. Additionally we've created over 75 vignettes; distillations of key events over the 30+ hours logged. These highlights take full advantage of the multiple camera locations inside and outside of the airplane, screen recordings of our EFB's, recorded pre- and post-flight briefings, as well as radio transmissions.

You'll find analyses from CloudAhoy. We recorded the entire flight on ForeFlight so we've featured certain track logs from the flight into the debriefing tool for more detailed analysis for certain maneuvers.

We've also included three simulation missions developed by Community Aviation. "The Wright Stuff" is an exercise that replicates the RNAV (GPS) Rwy 21 approach into Kill Devil Hills on Day 3 and "Escape from Berlin" was inspired from the departure at KBML on Day 5. You can fly these on a Redbird flight simulation device at one of our flight training centers around the country. The "Escape from Berlin" scenario also qualifies for FAA Wings flight credit.

The third mission, "Deep Practice", takes place on the west coast (KLGB Long Beach, CA) but it is a great exercise for approach skill building and can be flown on a PC as well as a Redbird training device. This mission was also introduced at Oshkosh this year and is part of the EAA's Proficiency365 initiative.

So join us for over 3,000 miles of flight, 38 hours of video, three scenarios and more resources from Doug's library. Thank you.