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How to Prepare for Your First Check Ride

Plane and Pilot

Knowledge areas and tasks included in the ACS include weather theory, airspace, aeronautical charts, aircraft performance, and emergency procedures, to name just a few. Some pilots discover they need extra practice with performance landings or more time mastering VOR navigation, for instance. Remember that this is not a simple quiz.

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Flight Sims for the Win: It’s All About Repetition and Drill

Flying Magazine

If utilizing Runway 17 with left traffic, the crosswind turn will be heading 080, downwind 350, base 260, etc. Scenario 3: VFR into IFR If you read the accident reports the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) compiles, you will notice a lot are attributed in part to the pilot’s decision to continue VFR into deteriorating weather.

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Biennial Flight Review Guide: Preparing for Success

Pilot's Life Blog

Discussions may also cover weather interpretation, flight planning, and risk management. This may include normal and crosswind takeoffs and landings, stalls, steep turns, emergency procedures, and navigation exercises. Weather Theory and Interpretation Weather is a critical factor in flight safety.

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How to Fly the Perfect Holding Pattern (Entry, Wind Correction, etc.)

Pilot Institute

This can be for spacing or other reasons, such as waiting for adverse weather conditions to pass. Most holding fixes are NAVAIDs such as VORs, RNAV (GPS) waypoints, and even ILS markers. When VORs are used as holding fixes, the fix is usually a specific DME distance on a particular radial.

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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack (Part II)

Air Facts

NTSB ERA22LA169 describes a funny engine noise that prompted an earlier than planned turn to crosswind for an anticipated return to the airport. The instructor wrote, “As far as my proficiency with the existing weather conditions, I was comfortable, current, and proficient. The scenario was that the pilot was returning due to weather.

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Pointers for Packing Your First Flight Bag

Flying Magazine

For primary pilots, I like the manual E6-B because the wind side helps with visualization of crosswinds and learning about VORs. You will also be writing down things in the cockpit—for example, the information from the automated weather. You will use the E6-B during your knowledge test.

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The Key West of Ohio

Photographic Logbook

With gusty winds forecast along the eastern seaboard on October 11, I let the weather prognostic chart suggest a different course. West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. Serpentine tendrils of mist followed the course of the Genesee River south of Letchworth.

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