Thunderstorms / Convective Activity Pr
Ain’t that pretty?! Well ya, but it would probably be a lot less pretty if you were flying in the middle of it rather than…
Mountain Weather Pr
Nice Hat! I want a hat like that! Looks pretty cool! Now we’ve already talked about clouds, but in this TOPIC we are going to…
Basic Cloud Types Pr
Cloud Spotting Games Next time you have nothing better to do, go be a kid again and look up at the clouds and see what…
Weather Fronts Pr
Don’t stand in front of that Front! Well actually let’s say don’t stand fly in front of that front. A Front is a boundary or…
GPS Basics Pr
Siri, navigate my plane to Key West Airport……. If only it were that easy…..but that would take a lot of the fun out of flying! …
VOR Navigation Made Easy Pr
Fly me TO the moon! Ya, well, there isn’t a VOR station on the moon so we can’t actually use a VOR to get to…
The Weighing and Balancing Act Pr
How much to put where? Manually calculating weight and balance is really the same as your basic high school math class. Take the example below…
VFR Chart Basics Pr
I love this Section(al)! Me TOO! I mean, I love sectional charts. The Sectional Chart or “VFR Chart” is the primary map used by VFR…
The Instrument Panel Explained Pr
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 Pr
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…