Most flight schools will have you focus a huge chunk of your time learning navigation. As a pilot, it’s your duty to know exactly where you are at any given time. The latest tools being used are GPS systems, but you’ll find most of your training revolves around the old standby VOR’s.
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 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 just ran across a nice way of speeding up your connection to FSS. If you’ve tried to use the voice prompts, it can be very difficult if you’re standing outside your local flight schools hangar with props making tons of noise.
Call 1-800-WX-BRIEF (1-800-992-7433)
Press “1″ to speak to a briefer.
Enter your two digit [...]