Forward Slips and Side Slips Pr Copy
Boy, that’s a slippery subject! Actually, not really. Forward slips and side slips are relatively easy maneuvers to practice and learn, and while they may…
Reading the Weather – TAFs Pr Copy
Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts TAFs are very similar to METARs in the sense that they use the same coding abbreviations and a very similar structure. Obviously…
Reading the Weather – METARs Pr Copy
METARs METARs are a snapshot in time, a simple observation of what the weather was doing at a particular moment. They are an excellent tool…
How To Practice Stalls Pr Copy
The Fun Part! How to properly practice stalls in the real airplane. Hopefully after watching the video above you will have a better understanding of…
Stalled Airflow Pr Copy
Check out the video above to have a look at what actually happens to the airflow over the wing of an airplane when it stalls.…
Angle Of Attack Pr Copy
The Angle it Attacks Angle of Attack, or AOA as we’ll call it going forward, is technically defined as such: THE ANGLE AT WHICH THE…
The Secret to Being Stable Pr Copy
The trick to being more stable than Charlie Sheen isn’t just abstaining from drugs and alcohol. Safe and STABLE approaches all start with how you…
Flying in the Wind Pr Copy
By about lesson 3 in your training you probably will have had the opportunity to experience a few takeoffs and landings, and there’s a good…
Taxiing in the Wind Pr Copy
You’ll often find that it is always windy at the airport whenever you want to fly, whether or not you live in Kansas. This means…
Load Factor Pr Copy
How much can the wing carry? What we are looking at here is a graph of the load (G loading or G-forces) felt on the…