Cockpit Crosswind Pilot in Command 
Air Facts
APRIL 9, 2025
This promises to be a major advancement in cockpit technology, with benefits for pilots and passengers alike. Its easy to imagine reading the NTSB report about an influencer on YouTube or Instagram who crashed while livestreaming on final approach (Can I land in a 40-knot crosswind? Ride along and find out!).
Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
It is the first time you will step into the cockpit and demonstrate to your examiner, the FAA, and yourself that youre ready to safely and competently operate as a private pilot. The last thing you want is to be fighting a nasty crosswind while demonstrating a challenging performance landing to your examiner, for instance.
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Pilot Institute
APRIL 4, 2025
Hold a Private Pilot License (PPL). Flight Training: Part 61: Minimum 250 total flight hours, including: 100 hours as Pilot-in-Command (PIC). Crosswinds will be a frequent issue, so you’ll have to know which direction to head to correct for the wind. 50 hours of cross-country flight time. 10 hours in Complex or TAA.
Air Facts
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
These maneuvers include an engine failure on takeoff, loss of lift on the wing during departure, en route, and approach, crosswind landings, wind shear scenarios, engine inoperative landings, low visibility landings, crash landings and evacuation. Finally, the pilot in command is required to have an annual line check.
iPad Pilot News
MARCH 27, 2025
This app lets you know at a glance if you are legal to fly as pilot in command by keeping track of your flight review, medical status and recent flight experience. This app deliversHD radar, route planning, in-flight SiriusXM/ADS-B capability and other advanced weather data to GA pilots. Flight Currency Ready to fly?
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. All flight controls are actuated electronically, and theres no physical link between the control sidesticks in the cockpit and the flight surfaces. The elevator and rudder control are left to the pilot.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 7, 2025
Well examine why they should always go hand-in-hand and how you can improve your skills to become a more capable pilot. Key Takeaways Currency ensures a pilot meets FAA legal requirements to act as pilot-in-command. Proficiency is a pilots ability to fly skillfully and safely beyond legal minimums.
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