How much runway do you need? Calculating how much runway is required for your airplane to takeoff and land is something specifically required for you to do each preflight by the FARs. It’s actually easier than you might think, and over the years aircraft manufacturers have made the charts more and more user-friendly to use.… Continue reading Takeoff and Landing Calculations
Topic Category: Private Pilot
Regulations (FARs Lite)
A light dose of rules Well, yes there are a lot of rules involved in flying, along with some unique nomenclature you may not have heard before. Given that this may very well be the “driest” part of your flight training, we’ve decided to break it up into a few parts, and it’s about that… Continue reading Regulations (FARs Lite)
S-Turns
Kind of like slalom skiing, but this time you’re flying S-Turns are typically performed over a long straight road and gives you another opportunity to hone in on your skills in controlling the airplane in relation to the ground at low altitudes. The idea behind the S-turn maneuver is for you to vary your angle of… Continue reading S-Turns
Turns About a Point
Turning and Pointing Well, it’s a little more than just that. The idea behind a “turn about a point” is to develop a skill of being able to control the airplane in reference to a point on the ground, while accounting for the wind aloft trying to blow you off course. Since when you are… Continue reading Turns About a Point
Unusual Attitudes Gone Wrong
Avoid doing this when practicing unusual attitudes…… What could have been done to avoid the improper recovery here? Leave your answers in the forum! Ask a Question to the Community Ask a Question and get a fast response from our CFIs
Unusual Attitudes
Wow, that’s very unusual. Yes, what you are about to embark upon will be quite unusual. Your CFI is about to make you close your eyes while wearing a view-limiting device, and put the airplane into either a steep nose up or steep nose down attitude, and ask you to open your eyes and rapidly… Continue reading Unusual Attitudes
Flying Blind: Simulated Instrument Practice
I see said the blind man! Ya, well, not really. If you are unlucky enough to have accidentally flown into a cloud, you won’t see much other than sweat streaming down your face and your instruments indicating strange things you do not actually feel happening. The trouble with flying in the clouds is that your… Continue reading Flying Blind: Simulated Instrument Practice
Class C Airspace
Hey Charlie, there’s some airspace up ahead Yes, there is, and it’s fairly straightforward and simple airspace at that. Not only are the dimension of Class C airspace easy to understand, it is also easy to enter. The Requirements to Enter: Transponder Two-way radio communication (usually by first calling approach control) Establish communication with approach… Continue reading Class C Airspace
Class B Airspace
Class B, the busy stuff To make sense of this complicated cake, let’s build it from the ground up! At a Class B airport, you have Ground Control, just like you would at a Class C or Class D airport. Ground control issues taxi clearances. You have Tower Control, same as any other towered airport. … Continue reading Class B Airspace
Class A Airspace
Class A, that’s high eh? Class A airspace is a fairly straight forward type of airspace to understand, it covers the entire globe, from 18,000′ msl or FL180 (flight level 180) up to and including FL600 (or 60,000′ msl). Requirements: You need a Altitude encoding transponder An instrument rating and be on an IFR flight… Continue reading Class A Airspace