Hold On! Not Sooo Fast!!! When things get busy in the sky, or the weather gets bad up ahead and ATC needs you to pull over to the side of the road and park that thing for a minute or twenty-five minutes, they will issue you a “hold”. Since you can’t exactly find a parking… Continue reading Holding Patterns
Lesson Category: IFR
Nav Instruments: Siri, Go Direct the Airport
Electronic Navigation Since virtually all of your navigation under IFR will be done with some sort of electronics, it makes sense to review a few things you may already know and add a few more. Lesson Objective: Learn more about how radio waves work and how your GPS system works. We’ll review VOR usage and… Continue reading Nav Instruments: Siri, Go Direct the Airport
IFR Mind Games
Good Pilots Do Bad Things In this LESSON we’re going to talk about some of the tricks your mind plays on you that can make good pilots do bad things. Cirrus SR22 Case Study: Three Fatal Before departing on the instrument flight rules cross-country flight, the private pilot obtained a weather briefing that forecast moderate… Continue reading IFR Mind Games
IFR Flight Instruments: Looking Through the Glass
Old Meets New…. So you’ve probably heard the term “steam gauges” and “glass cockpit”. Well steam gauges don’t run on steam, they’re the little round dial instruments shown on the left. Glass Cockpit simply means computer screens instead of round dial instruments. It requires a bit more proficiency to fly “round dial” or “steam gauge”… Continue reading IFR Flight Instruments: Looking Through the Glass
Starting Your Instrument Rating Right
How to Navigate this Course This course is broken up into LESSONs and TOPICs. The video above explains how to progress through each by clicking on the LESSON, then clicking on the individual TOPICs, marking them complete once the timer expires, then completing the quiz at the end of each LESSON. After taking a Quiz… Continue reading Starting Your Instrument Rating Right
Hobby Airport Accident
To get started: Click on the first TOPIC below and proceed through each topic, reading, watching the videos, and answering the quiz questions. Proceed through the following TOPICs and click on the quizzes spaced throughout the course. Follow along with the accident progression and answer the questions to see how your thought process aligns with… Continue reading Hobby Airport Accident
Lesson 9: Flying Blind and Performance Calculations
When you can’t see where you’re going: Flying blind doesn’t sound so fun. Although many pilots do fly airplanes through clouds and zero visibility conditions on a daily basis, it requires a lot of training and practice to have the proper knowledge and skills to do so safely. Far too many pilots die each year… Continue reading Lesson 9: Flying Blind and Performance Calculations
Partial Panel
Uh, which one isn’t working right? Well, that’s quite an ugly picture there on the panel! I don’t know if I’d rather them all be broke and be straight and level, or just have one malfunctioning (there is only one malfunctioning instrument in this photo) and try to correct that mess. In this LESSON we… Continue reading Partial Panel
Steep Turns
How tight can you keep it? Well keeping your turns tight in the traffic pattern or anywhere else for that matter isn’t really the best idea (especially when flying IFR). Occasionally we do get ourselves into scenarios where we are banking a little more than we should, and it’s important to keep these skills sharp… Continue reading Steep Turns
Intercepting and Tracking Courses
Follow Your Nose! If only it were that easy. Good news is this lesson is fairly easy and straightforward. There are no TOPICS included with this lesson, all the information you need is right below! Have fun! ARTCC: Cessna 8MA I have revised routing advise ready to copy….. Cessna 8MA: uh, standby center, I’ll be… Continue reading Intercepting and Tracking Courses