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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 [...]
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.
As I’ve mentioned, from the time I was very young, I’ve had a dream to fly. I’ve watched planes and helicopters, and even birds and been fascinated by flight. I love flying. I had called the local flight schools so often, I was probably becoming a pest. As I got older, I considered a career [...]