Pilot Institute

APRIL 4, 2025

Flight Training: Part 61: Minimum 40 flight hours (including 20 dual, 10 solo). Part 141: Minimum 35 flight hours. Checkride: Pass an FAA written knowledge exam and practical flight test (checkride). It gives you the ability to fly in Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). Pass a practical test (checkride).

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Pilot Checkride Cabin Crew Airplanes 98

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

After busting a major milestone in their training (the initial solo or any of the three checkrides they had to pass in the T-38 syllabus), students would get one or two extra flights with an experienced IP. The IP in the front cockpit would do all ground-handling operations and make the takeoff.

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Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

Flight canceled. Youll be able to file an IFR flight plan and safely depart, fly through, and arrive in conditions that would otherwise ground a VFR-only pilot. Better stick-and-rudder control, smoother handling, and more exact navigation, even during VFR flights. A layer of clouds at 1,800 feet?

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Pilot Weather Approach Visual Flight Rules 52

Air Facts

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In 2017, I got hired to be the personal pilot for a family in Pennsylvania flying their high-tech, all glass cockpit $5m, Pilatus PC-12NG single engine turboprop. I got hired to be the personal pilot on an all glass cockpit $5m, Pilatus PC-12NG. In fact, I have been their Chief Pilot for nearly eight years.

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Clearance Airplanes Annual Inspection Pilot 96

Northstar VFR

JANUARY 21, 2024

All the countless nights of studying, memorizing the FAR AIM (save time by using the NorthStar pre-tabbed FAR AIM ), chair flying your maneuvers and endless stress over checkrides has finally paid off. You’ve been hired by a major airline and you can finally walk through the terminal at the airport in your flight uniform!

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Pilot Cockpit Airlines Airline 52

Northstar VFR

JULY 7, 2024

By Josh Page, CFI Being a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) is an excellent way to build flight time and grow as a professional aviator. What I thought I knew about flying when I first passed my CFI checkride is so much less than what I understand today after being a CFI for almost two years. Sounds intimidating, right?

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Checkride Density Altitude Pilot Cockpit 52

Jetwhine

JUNE 24, 2024

Pursuing my schooling on computer-aided flight plans, usually generated by an electronic flight bag (EFB—see Are You Current with the New Airman Certification Standards? for my ACS motivation), has led me to an FAA advisory circular, Use of Flight Deck Displays of Digital Weather and Aeronautical Information.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Weather Flight Plan Flight Deck 52