Flying Articles A Training Program 'w 1989 - 1993 US Accidents 1995 Statistics 1996 For 100,000 Hours of Flying 1996 Statistics 1997 Nall Report 1998 Nall Report 1998 Statistics 1999 Nall Report 1999 Was A Very Good Year 521 Maintenance A History of Measurement A History of Running Lights A Need to communicate Abnormal Situation Training Aborted Takeoff About Accidents About Questions About Students Absolute Altitude Accident Precipitating Causes 1991 Accidents By Experience Level Additional Endorsements Advice From Over 30 Years Ago Advice to instructors Aeronautical Knowledge Age as a Factor In Flying Aircraft Logbooks Aircraft Preflight Airline Pilots Airport Airworthiness Directive Airworthiness Directives (ADs) Alcohol Alert Areas Anticipation Applicant Summary Are You FARs Ready? Are You Ready? Area Familiarization Areas of Failure Areas of Required Knowledge As a Licensed Pilot Associated Airport (Two Mile final into CCR 19R) ATC Problems in Decending Order Aviator's Lies Basic Maneuver Tolerances Before Takeoff Check Bird Strikes Bits and Pieces Black Hole Landing Buchannan Field (at Concord, California) Buying the Farm Calming Flying Anxiety Carbon Monoxide Category Certificates and Documents CFI Abuses of Student Time CFI Hours Changing You Coffee Coffee Cold Weather Command Authority Commitment to Flying Communication, ATC & Radar Controlled Airport Radio Course Reversal Courtesy Crash Survival Cross-Country Planning Crosswind Landings Crosswind Takeoff Cruise Control Dealing with Delays Decisions, Decisions, Decisions Dehydration Descending Mechanical Failure Frequency Designing Lessons Determining Performance and Limitations Different Miles and How They Came to Be Diversion to Alternate Downwind Takeoff Ear Block Effective Criticism Requirements Effective Instruction Eights Emergency Equipment Emergency Landing Emergency Procedures Emergency Trim Use Engine Failure Accidents Engine Logs Engine Starting Equipment and Survival Gear FAA Instructional Format Factors in Successful Learning Failed Teaching FAR 61.35(a)(f) and 61 105(a) Aeronautical knowledge FAR 61.39(a)(5) Completion of Prerequisites for PT FAR 61.43 Flight Tests FAR 91 aircraft equipment required Day FAR Violations In Decending Order Fatalities and Survival Fatigue and Flying Fear of Flying First Flight Preparations Fitting The Hood Fixed Gear Accidents Flight Contradictions Flight Instruction/Proficiency Requirement Flight Review Flying With Your Senses Forced Landings Fuel Accidents Fuel/Electric accidents Gadgets To Save Time Gaining Experience General Aviation Accidents General Aviation Statistics Getting the ATIS Go-around Good Instruction Good Judgement Ground Procedures - Taxiing Renewal Ground Radio to Taxi Ground Reference Ground Review Growing Up As A Pilot Help Your Instructor Helping Yourself Historical Midairs Holding Headings Holding Patterns IFR Homebuilt Statistics Hood Lessons How We Got Pattern A and Pattern B Hundred Octane Aviation Fuel Hyperventilation Hypoxia IFR Flying Faults IFR Maneuvers IFR Rated Pilot Illusions - IFR for VFR pilots Illusions - Natural Illusions Illusions - Vertigo Simulation Imminent Stalls Important Side Notes In Possession for Checkride Inspections Instruction Instruction as I do it... Instruction use of MS Flight Simulator Instructional Constants Instructional Frustration Instructional Safety Instructional sequence Introduction to Ground Reference Introduction to Illusions Introduction to The Radio Introduction To The Radio It's About Judgement It's About Time Judgement of Limitations Judgment of Limitations Keeping Anger in its Place Keys For Successful Learning Knowing Know Landing Illusions Landings on Final Learning From Your Mistakes Learning To Fly Learning To Fly Young Light Series Lost Procedures Mad As Hell And Taking It Maintenance Records Major CFI Applicant Problem Areas Measures Medical Certification Medicine MEL Decision Sequence Midair Accidents In 10 Years 1983-94 Military Instruction Military Operational Areas (MOA) Military Training Routes (MTR) Minimum Controllable Minimum Equipment List More on Mid-Airs Most dangerous thing in aviation: Mountain Accidents Music and Flying My First Month As A Student Pilot My Kind of Student My Solos Take Longer Names And What Nice To Know Information Night Accidents Night Flight (Discussion) Night Illusions Non-IFR Pilot Normal and Crosswind Not Making Progress? Notes On Learning Nutrition Obtaining Weather Information On Checklists On Flight Instructors On Motivation One CFI + One CFI = Problems Operating Without a MEL (Minimum Equipment List) Operation of Airplane Systems Operation of Airplane Systems Opinion Opinion On Trim Overview of the PTS Paperwork Parking Parking and Tiedown Passenger Boarding Information Performance Sheet ASEL Performance Sheet ASEL Permanent Records Phillips Head Screws Phonetic Alphabet and Time Zones Pilot Error 50 Years Ago Pilot in Command Time Pilot/Owner Maintenance Pilot/Owner Maintenance Pilotage and Dead Reckoning Pilots Are Special Pitot Tube Inventor Planned Instruction Post Landing Checklist Post-Landing Post-start Postflight Debriefing Power-off Stalls Power-on Stalls Practical Test Standards Practice Illusions Pre-start/Start Checklist Pre-takeoff Pre-takeoff Considerations Preflight & Cockpit Management Preliminaries to Flight Preparation Prevention of taxiing problems Private Pilot Currency Private Pilot Endorsements Private Pilot Legality Private Pilot Requirements Private Pilot Sharing of Expenses Procedures and Techniques Prohibited Areas PTS Oral/Flight Test Quitting Training Radio Q-History Reaction and Anticipation Reaction and Anticipation Recall Statistics Recipe for Failure... Rectangular Patterns Repairs Restricted Areas Retractables River Flying with Steep Turns Run-up Runup Runup Runway Incursions S-Turns Safe Operation Scanning (instructor notes) Selecting Your Instructor Self-Doubt is Normal Self-Doubt is Normal Sequence of Decision for Airworthiness Service Bulletin Service Difficulty Reports (SDRs) Shirt Tails Short Field Takeoff Short Field Takeoffs Short, Soft, and Rough Takeoff Shoulder Harness Side Notes Sleep Slow Flight Smoking Smoking Smoothness Society of Automotive Engineers Soft Field Soft-field Takeoff Sources of Inadvertent Stalls Becoming Spins Spatial Disorientation Special Use Airspace (SUA) Spin Awareness (Discussion) Spins - A History Spins Were A One Time Thing In 1914 Spiral Descents Stall Spin Accidents Stalls Standard Rate Turns Start/Post Start Statistics As of October 2001 Statistics on Fuel/electric related accidents Statistics on General Aviation Accidents Steep Turns Stress Student Evaluation Student Logbook Requirements Subtle Fatigue Systems Malfunction Taildraggers Take Practical Test Takeoff Factors Takeoff Notes Takeoffs Taxiing Taxiing Taxiing Teaching 30 Years Ago Teaching Airplane English Teaching Efficiency Teaching Ground Reference Teaching Memory Teaching Memory Teaching precepts Teaching Precepts Teaching The FAA Way Teaching To A Higher Level Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR) Test After Failure The Aircraft The Cockpit The Compass The Competence of Incompetence The Development of Aviation The E-6B The First Solo The Instructor The Johnson Bar The Joys of Flying The Last Thing You Learn The LORAN System The Nature of Certainty The Plotter The Practical Test The PTS The Risks of Flying The Second Solo The Student As A Problem The Student As A Student The Takeoff The Unteachable Student Thinking Through Patterns Thoughts on Thoughts Tie Down Tight Grip VS Light Touch Time For First Solo Timed Turns Traffic Patterns Training Attitudes Trim Trim Exercises (Instructor Notes) Trim History Trim instruction Trim Tab Inventor Trim Use Trimming Cessnas (instructor notes) Turns About a Point Uncontrolled Airport Radio Universal Aspects Unusual Attitude Recoveries Unusual Attitudes Utilizing Hood Training Vertigo Vertigo VFR Midairs VFR to IFR Options Visualizing Your Training Viva la Difference VOR tracking Warning Areas Way To Go... 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