The Instrument Panel Explained
The Power of the Panel While as a Private Pilot you will be training to fly VFR only and constantly look outside the cockpit, it…
Electrical System
Gee, that’s shocking! Let’s look a electricity in a new way. In this TOPIC, we’ll talk about electricity as if it was water flowing through…
Managing Your Engine
You want the engine to like it’s Manager Pilot. As the PIC you are going to be doing your best to take care of your engine. …
What Makes it Work
The big loud magic! Engines may seem like magic, and if they do, that’s not a problem at all. By the end of this TOPIC…
Reading the Weather – TAFs
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
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…
Angle Of Attack
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 Power Curve
It’s all about the POWER: Of course big powerful airplanes are cool, but in reality most of the training aircraft we fly have relatively little…
Radio Calls at Non-Towered Airports
How to Talk on the Radio: In this topic, we are going to cover primarily how to talk on the radio at a non-towered airport,…