If you’re like me, you’ve dreamed of flying for years. Every time you hear an airplane fly overhead, you’re the one person in the group straining your neck to watch it fly overhead. You’ve got it in your blood. There’s something inside of you that yearns to take to the air. You’ve got pilot blood [...]
Flight Schools specialize in teaching basic flight instruction. They teach you everything you need to know to pass your checkride (final test with a Designated Examiner) and then fly safely among the rest of the pilots in the world. Ground School It will all start in your ground school learning the fundementals of aeronautics. What [...]
Using Your License You’ve worked hard, studied hard, and flown countless hours with your CFI. You may have even gone through several CFI’s or even several flight schools. You spent gone through the grueling pressure of a checkride and your Designated Examiner shook your hand and said “congratulations pilot.” Now what? Now that you have [...]
Flight schools will have you do all of your flight planning on a paper sectional and hand write your Navigation Log. Once you’ve earned your private pilot certificate, you’ll have a new set of tools you can use to plan your flight. It’s very important you learn how to plan your flights by hand before [...]
Flight schools have one goal, teaching you whatever you need to know to pass your check ride. Don’t get me wrong, they want you to be a safe pilot as well. It’s not just about passing the check ride. They know, if you pass the check ride, you’ll also be a safe pilot. Your CFI [...]
Flight schools are focused on teaching what you need to know to pass your check ride. Once you cross that hurdle, the real learning begins. As you begin to fly in a real world environment at airports you’ve never flown into, you’ll realize you have so much to still learn. Checklists are vital during all [...]
Flight schools usually won’t spend too much time going over GPS systems during your Private Pilot training. It’s not because you won’t use them, just because knowledge of them isn’t required to pass your check-ride. There is SO much to remember when going through the training, anything they can put off until after you’ve got [...]
I don’t know if there is any scientific backing for my “feeling”, but I do “feel” better when I’m flying ON the wings than under the wings. I know, it’s dumb, but I’ve felt this way for a while and I found out I’m not the only one who “feels” this way. When you’re in [...]
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What do you need to do before entering a Class D airspace? What should you do before talking to anyone in Class D? What’s the first thing you say talking to the ATC? All these are answered in this review of radio use in a Class D airspace.