Overview

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Features

• Chapter 1: Pilot Training. How to find a good instructor; elements to consider if you contemplate an aviation career; FAA pilot certificates and ratings; and elements that identify good instructors, flight schools, and students.
• Chapter 2: Standard Operating Procedures. The proper ground and flight procedures for single-engine, basic training airplanes, engines, checklists, and radio communications.
• Chapter 3: Maneuvers for Solo Flight. How to fly the wing and master the pre-solo flight maneuvers.
• Chapter 4: Normal Takeoffs and Landings. How to takeoff, fly the traffic pattern, and land—includes the constant attitude and power, variable airspeed approach, and the three steps for making perfect landings.
• Chapter 5: Advanced Maneuvers for Private Pilots. How to fly the maneuvers required for private pilot certification.
• Chapter 6: Basic Cross-Country Navigation and Flight Procedures. Dead-reckoning, pilotage, and land-fall navigation; using aviation weather information; fuel considerations; inflight procedures; and the mental navigation rules.
• Chapter 7: Radio Navigation: Orientation and Tracking. How to determine your position in relation to VOR and NDB stations, and how to track a VOR course.
• Chapter 8: GPS Navigation, Instrument and Night Flying, and Insights—a collection of pertinent articles that I wrote for AOPA Flight Training magazine.
• Chapter 9: Complex, High Performance Airplanes. How to operate these airplanes—you will undoubtedly do this after receiving your private pilot certificate.

Specifications

• 293 Pages