This pilot is busy, he is hand flying a missed approach in a piston twin aircraft followed by the entry into the holding pattern. Its interesting that the dash is equiped with some pretty good avionics. But nowadays single engine aircraft such as a Cirrus puts this technology to shame. I thought it would [...]
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How to Choose a Flight School, Video
November 7th, 2011 
junkie This is a short video with some great advice and very practical input on starting your flying career. See more articles about learning to fly and flying lessons in this section.
How Flight Instructors Get More Students
November 5th, 2011 junkie These are not exactly good economic times and less people can afford flying lessons. The price of fuel really does not help either and starting an aviation career is not a cheap goal. You have to have some serious cash set aside and a good plan. So how do flight instructors stay alive when business [...]
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Tags: aviation, Flight instructing, Flight instruction, flying lessons, learn to fly 
1 Comment »Ground School: Calculating Wind Correction Angle
May 10th, 2011 junkie This is a great little class on wind correction angle. I have been flying for years but this theory is something I use everyday. Not so much in the difference between magnetic course and true course but more in the theory of angles and adjusting to the wind. See some pilot watches with chronographs [...]
Posted in Education, Flying Lessons Tags: learn to fly, pilot school, private pilot ground school No Comments »Do-You-Want-to-Pass-Your-Private-Pilot-Checkride?
April 19th, 2011 junkie By Rod A Yeager In order for you to become a private pilot, first you have to take and then ace your checkride. If you do, then the FAA will issue you your certificate authorizing you to start operating on your own and independent of your certified flight instructor. That’s where the real fun begins. [...]
Learn To Fly
April 18th, 2011 junkie This is a very humorous video done by yours truely showing a lot of pilots that we are all human. There is a reference in the video to the Private Pilot award, but you can also get the same thing in the First Solo award as well. It beats the heck out of buying a [...]
The Biennial Flight Review and What Pilots Don’t Know
April 18th, 2011 junkie By Jon Pickering It never ceases to amaze me the bad habits that pilots have either been taught or adopted through their flying, neither does it surprise me that these pilots have any real concept of the controls that they are manipulating, what they do and why. Pilots are and always will be at a [...]
Posted in Flying Lessons Tags: Beinnial flight review, flying currency, flying lessons No Comments »What You Should Know About Getting a Pilot’s License
April 10th, 2011 junkie By Hobson Tarrant Have you ever listened to those little voices in your head be they conscience and soul, good or evil, whatever, my first solo flight turned out to be a real three seat event. Having completed my practice circuits and landed my instructor unbuckled his belt and announced “She’s all yours off you [...]
