AV Web
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
When I became an airline pilot at the beginning of 1979, the training classes and flight decks were male only clubs. How would you feel if you were one of the first three women flying for an airline and had to live on the flight decks I described? I gave tons of type rating, and ATP check rides in that box.
Flight Training Central
AUGUST 7, 2024
In this video, we’ll show how this system works in piston-engine airplanes, like a Piper Malibu, and how the pilot control it from the flight deck. Video training, test prep, checkride prep and more. This video tip is from Sporty’s Commercial Pilot Training Course.
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Northstar VFR
MAY 26, 2024
Chair flying is a technique to practice your flying skills by either sitting in the airplane on the ground, using a simulator, or sitting in front of a poster of your flight deck. For this article, we will focus on using a flight deck, or cockpit, poster for chair flying at home. What do I need for chair flying?
Air Facts
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Our passenger flight was getting a checkride from the FAA. I was the Captain in command of a scheduled passenger flight on a TWA Lockheed L-1011 en route to Chicago O’Hare. At the time of this flight, I was Chairman of the Airline Pilots Association Training and Standards Committee. On the flight deck of the L-1011.
Flight Training Central
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Its wisdom has been applied to everything from home life to business dealings and has its place on the flight deck as well. While complete engine failures are not common, the stakes are high which is why pilots train extensively for such occurrences and why they get evaluated as part of a checkride.
Northstar VFR
APRIL 25, 2024
You’ll pay an hourly rate for the aircraft rental, flight or ground instruction, and simulator use. There are other costs involved such as an online ground school, handbooks, a headset, knowledge test fees, possible fuel surcharges, and checkride fees. Financing is an option but is a last resort for most pilots.
NAFI
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Or at least for the required checkride prep portion if you inherited them from somebody else. I don’t know about you, but sharing the sky with (or potentially being on the aft side of a locked flight deck door behind) “the world’s okayest pilot” makes my skin crawl. And some of us need to do it better.
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