A C172 SINGLE PLT KNOWINGLY DEPARTED ON AN IFR FLT PLAN UTILIZING AN EXPIRED VOR CHK AND LATER UTILIZED THE WRONG APCH PLATE CAUSING A HDG DEV WITH ZSE.

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I DOWNLOADED GOV CHARTS FOR THE FLT FROM A WEB SITE; BECAUSE I HAD MISLAID THE CURRENT COMMERCIAL CHARTS FOR THE AREA. I FILED AN IFR FLT PLAN. THIS FLT WAS WITH MY SON; WHO IS ALSO A PVT PLT. THE VOR AT PAINE FIELD IS OTS UNTIL OCTOBER; THE LAST CHK ON THE PLANE WAS JUN/SUN/04. A FEW DAYS LATER I DECIDED TO FLY ANYWAY. ENRTE; I USED THE IFR CERTIFIED GPS FOR THE DME; AND SET IT FOR HQM. ARTCC CLRED ME FOR THE ILS APCH TO HQM; RPTED NO TFC BTWN MY PRESENT POS AND HQM; FREQ CHANGE APPROVED. AT ULESS THE DME IS MEASURED FROM HQM VOR. I DID NOT CHANGE THIS FOR SEVERAL MI; THEN WAS LATE CHANGING TO THE HQM LOC DME; WAS LATE AND HIGH; AND BEGAN A MISSED APCH. I RETURNED TO ARTCC AND RPTED THE MISSED. THEY SUGGESTED WHAT I REALIZE NOW WAS THE VOR RWY 6 APCH; MAINTAIN 3000 FT; FREQ CHANGE APPROVED. MY MIND WAS STILL THINKING RWY 24. I GOT OUT THE APCH PLATE FOR VOR RWY 24; EXECUTED A TURN IN THE HOLD OVER HQM; AND (BIG ERROR) PROCEEDED TO FLY A 10 NM DME ARC ALONG THE 10 NM CIRCLE ON THE APCH CHART TO LEAD ME BACK TO RWY 24 AT 3000 FT. I HAD MISTAKEN A 10 NM CIRCLE AROUND A POINT 11.9 NM FROM HQM (ON THE GOV PLATE) FOR A DME ARC. AS I APCHED A HDG OF ABOUT 050 DEGS; I GOT A CALL FROM HOQUIAM UNICOM TO CLB IMMEDIATELY TO 5000 FT; HDG 010 DEGS (I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE HDG); CALL ARTCC. I DID SO. WHEN ASKED MY INTENTIONS; I ASKED FOR ROUTING BACK TO PAINE FIELD. HE GAVE ME THE REVERSE OF MY RTE TO HQM; AND I FLEW BACK. AT NEAR SHN; WE RETURNED TO VMC; AND I CANCELED IFR. WE FLEW THE SCENIC RTE BACK TO PAINE VIA LUNCH IN PORT TOWNSEND. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS: I AM A NEWLY RATED INST PLT WITH 6.1 HRS OF ACTUAL INST TIME; AND 63.2 HRS OF SIMULATED INST TIME. I WAS RELATIVELY UNFAMILIAR WITH THE GOV APCH PLATES. COMMERCIAL CHARTS DO NOT PUT THE CIRCLE ON THE MAP; BUT NOTE IT IN PRINT ON THE PROFILE VIEW OF THE APCH. THE CONDITIONS AT THE TIME WERE MARGINAL IMC; THE CEILING OF THE CLOUDS BELOW US WERE VISIBLE (I WOULD GUESS 1000 FT BELOW). ABOVE US WAS HIGH STRATUS; AND WE WERE IN SMOKY HAZE WITH FORWARD VISIBILITY OF ABOUT 6 NM (A GUESS). I HOPE WE WOULD HAVE SEEN TFC AND OBSTRUCTIONS IN TIME TO AVOID THEM. I WILL NOT FLY IFR AGAIN UNTIL I HAVE THOROUGHLY REVIEWED VOR NAV AND APCHS WITH AN INSTRUCTOR; BOTH WITH A PTCAD AND INFLT. I HOPE TO START THAT PROCESS TOMORROW. I WILL ALSO REVIEW THE DIFFERENCES BTWN COMMERCIAL AND GOV APCH PLATES; AND MAKE A THOROUGH REVIEW PRIOR TO ANY FLT. I WANTED TO SHOW MY SON THAT I COULD FLY IFR. I IGNORED THE LITTLE VOICE THAT SAID I SHOULD NOT FLY IFR WITH THE LAST VOR CHK OVERDUE. I DID NOT ADEQUATELY REVIEW THE APCH PLATES FOR THE FLT; AND WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE BY THE CHANGE IN DME LOCATIONS. THIS SET UP THE LATER CONFUSION BY PLACING ME IN AN UNCERTAIN STATE OF MIND; AND BEHIND THE AIRPLANE.