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
Lesson Category: Private Pilot
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
Holding Procedures
Hold on NOT SO FAST! And you thought you were going to have a nice easy GPS direct flight huh? Well, ATC saw your life was going nice and easy and decided to assign some holding instructions to spice things up a bit. Variety is the spice of life don’t ya know! In this lesson,… Continue reading Holding Procedures
Departure and En-route Charts
How low can you go? Well, that’s not exactly the point of Low En-route Charts, but they do have lots of helpful altitudes on there to help you figure out just how low you can safely go, along with lots of other great information. In the next TOPIC we’ll cover a great refresher on what… Continue reading Departure and En-route Charts
Instrument Approaches and Plates
Cleared for what approach? In this lesson we’ll cover several different types of instrument approaches including: ILS LOC / LOC Backcourse LDA RNAV / LNAV / VNAV / LPV VOR ASR / PAR We’ll be skipping NDBs because, well, they’re old and the FAA has removed them from the testing standards. I think the waitress… Continue reading Instrument Approaches and Plates
Lesson 20: Test Prep
Time to get your Pilot Certificate! By the time you arrive here in the course I’m sure you are ready to go and get your Pilot Certificate! Over the next few topics we will give you some quick review and prep to help you with passing the written exam, as well as preparing for the… Continue reading Lesson 20: Test Prep
Lesson 19: Cross Country Flight Planning
Flying Cross Country In this LESSON we’ll cover: Airport Diagrams Cross Country Planning Making Calculations using the E6B Flight Computer Completing Navigation Logs The only time you can have too much fuel, is when you’re on fire! [sg_popup id=7]
Lesson 18: Flying at Night
The sun will come out tomorrow! Bet your bottom dollar that it will come out tomorrow! But, in the meantime, you’re going to have to figure out how to fly in the dark. The other option is to sleep in the cramped cockpit of that Cessna 150 you’re flying and wait for the sun to… Continue reading Lesson 18: Flying at Night
Lesson 17: Aeromedical Factors, ADM, FARS
Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills.