There are many different reasons that an individual would want to learn how to fly. One reason is to conquer one of the last greatest parts of the planet earth and that is the sky. It is easy to conquer land and fairly easy to conquer water but it is the sky which still leads [...]
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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 »Airline Pilot Training Video
May 9th, 2011 junkie I found this video, if you are thinking about becoming a pilot it is very inspirational. It has some great flying images and some really cool video shots. Making it to the airlines is a big job, but you can do it if you focus and apply yourself. It helps if you have a plan [...]
Private Pilot Manuals and Handbooks Needed For the Private Pilot License
May 7th, 2011 junkie Private Pilot Manuals and Handbooks Needed For the Private Pilot License By Frederick Longe If you are thinking of getting a private pilot license,There will be a lot of books and materials you will need to get you through your training. Though there are many different manufacturers, they all pretty much have the same information [...]
Posted in Education Tags: aviation, flying, learn to fly, private pilot, private pilot license 1 Comment »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 [...]
