Patch's Flight Schools Guide

A complete and very in-depth look at the Comm1 VFR radio simulator. This tool is designed to teach and reinforce your radio communications skills while flying under VFR conditions. It’s not a CD or DVD, but rather software you install on your computer and actually interact with in the same way you would with controllers when you’re flying. This is designed to be used with a headset and boom mic.

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 [...]