Flight Training The Fast and Easy Way
Flight Training Made Simple / Aviation tips, articles and things to help you learn!Collision Avoidance
You as a pilot are responsible for collision avoidance. That means, in order to avoid a collision you have to be looking outside the plane! I see so many students and pilots both staring at the instruments instead of looking outside. I will remind them to look outside...
Carburetor Ice
Do you know what causes carburetor ice? Many people struggle with understanding how things work when it comes to engines or mechanical things. Rather than get into pictures of a carburetor and go into complicated examples of exactly how a carburetor works, I will make...
Common flight training problems made easy
These E-Lessons are written in an easy to understand format, avoiding all the technical language that just confuses people. Simple, step by step instructions walk you through every step to be sure that you understand, once and for all. For the price of about 10...
Density Altitude
When you hear the term "high density altitude", do you get confused as to what that means? Most people do, so don't worry! We're going to clear it up once and for all and talk about how it affects you. Before we start, I'd like to clarify something. The images below...
Emergency Descent
Today I heard of an accident near my home airport. There was a guy that contacted approach control and said that his plane was on fire and that he was going to try to make it to the airport. The airport was from what I understand was 8 miles away. He was going to try...
Landing setup
Setting up the plane for it's final descent and approach speed is actually pretty simple. Many instructors give students various different speeds for the different legs in the pattern, with each speed being less as they get close to final. I don't teach this method...
IFR position reports to VFR pilots
You've worked hard and long to build up the experience you needed to get your instrument rating. You learned how to control the plane better, understand airspace and communication better and learned a whole new set of aviation terms. You should definately feel good...
How to stay ahead of the airplane
Many student pilots and even some experienced pilots get behind the airplane sometimes. What I mean by "behind" the airplane is struggling to keep up. For a student this is especially hard because there are so many things that are new to them. There are a few things...