Posts Tagged ‘learn to fly’

How to Choose a Flight School, Video

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

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 [...]

Light Sports Aviation – Learn To Fly

It is almost every child’s dream to fly an airplane someday. In fact, the possibility of flying an airplane is something that delights children and adults equally. Therefore, it would be accurate to say that there is no sport like lights sports aviation. The joy of being airborne, becoming a pilot, feeling the cloud embrace [...]

Learning To Fly Light Sport Aviation Aircraft

Learning to fly a private plane has been an arduous and costly task in the past. This is however something that will remain in the past thanks to a new innovation in aircraft called the light sport aviation aircraft. The FAA introduced this new category of aircraft taking away the pain and the cost of [...]

Learning How To Fly

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 [...]

Ground School: Calculating Wind Correction Angle

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 [...]

Airline Pilot Training Video

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 [...]

Light Sport Aviation Guide

Light sport aviation (LSA) involves aircraft with a max takeoff weight that does not exceed 600 kilos (1,320 pounds) and a maximum level airspeed flight of 120 knots. A light sport plane has a reciprocating engine or single electric motor, and a ground adjustable propeller or fixed-pitch. Aircraft building designs that qualify as LSA may [...]