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- Airline Pilot Training
A Closer Look at Accelerated Airline Pilot Training
It seems more and more airline pilot training organizations are offering what is commonly called “accelerated flight training”. What is this and can it be used effectively for your training?
Accelerated flight training is designed to get you through the airline pilot training process quickly and efficiently. It is commonly used in two situations; the first being for busy people that have a hard time taking flight lessons 1 to 3 times week, and the second for the person that needs to complete training that has seemingly “dragged on” for a long period of time. Sometimes this is called a “finish up course”.
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- Comm Sense
In the last decade aviation has seen amazing advances in airframes, avionics, and propulsion. Fiber of incredible strength and smoothness is used for construction of an entire fuselage, wing, and tail surfaces. Flat glass panels with embedded electronics provide all the necessary flight parameters and communications data for our flying reference. The fuel stingy diesel engine has been engineered to power aircraft soon to be available on the market. Higher performance general aviation aircraft and more sophisticated avionics require more use of Air Traffic Control facilities, or, in other words, more communications.
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- Ground School Strategies
Flying isn't about filling in the squares and checking off requirements on some list. Sure, we have to meet all the requirements, and some of us use checklists for teaching as well as flying, but it all comes down to competency and professionalism. Do poorly on the airman knowledge test and you can expect the examiner to grill you during the checkride. Worse yet is Mother Nature, who, along with her old friend Murphy's Law, will see that each of us gets a thorough test of our knowledge someday when we least expect it.
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- Slow Flight, Stalls and Spins
As an instructor I’ve learned to love slow flight and delight in the stall. But I can still remember what it was like to feel differently, to be afraid—even though it seems a long, long time ago. And, because stalls usually came at the end of slow flight practice, I learned to fear slow flight, as well.
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- Initial Instrument Training
The First Few Steps …
… are the toughest, whether it’s learning to walk, ride a bike or, especially flying IFR.
The first few steps of instrument flying may be the most crucial you’ll ever take, but the results are a lot more rewarding. On the other hand, a misstep might cause you far more grief than falling over, say, like when you were 1 ½ and first learning to walk. Those missteps resulted in a scraped knee, some tears and a cuddle from Mom. A misstep in IFR might well result in a 15 second sound bite on the evening news – the kind that makes non-fliers glad they’ve never left the ground.
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- Those Terrible TFR's
I’ve got bad news … and worse. As I write this, the scoreboard reads: San Diego FSDO 21; Long Beach FSDO 20. (No, I’m not a fan of Long Beach and, no, Long Beach didn’t miss an extra point.)
Unfortunately, the score isn’t related to an intra-mural flag football game between the SAN and LGB Flight Standards District Office’s. It represents the number of airspace violations in the Presidential Temporary Flight Restrictions areas during George W. Bush’s visit to Southern California on August 21 & 22, 2003. That’s forty-one known violations, in just two days, of well-publicized temporary flight restrictions that were put in place because of the President’s visit. There were also reports that a number of general aviation aircraft had to be intercepted by combat aircraft and forced to land during those two days.
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- The FAA Written Exam: Goals and Options
Studying for the FAA written exam is something that many of us put off until the last minute, for a multitude of reasons. Whether it be time, ability to focus, having the right place to study or simply because the flight training is more fun!
However completing the FAA written test early has many advantages to you as a student...
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- Why Use a Flight Simulator
In recent years, the FAA has become accepting of flight simulation as an invaluable aid to instrument instruction. Using a flight simulator is a time (and money) saving means of doing repetitive tasks like holding pattern entries and procedure turns - and it also enables you to fly approaches not available because of the aircraft’s limitations or the lack of nearby facilities.
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