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p 11My Month as a Student
An email; Gene Whitt's Flying Life? Gene Whitt's Other
Life; My Month as a Student; Gadgets; Basic Knowledge for Flying; Passenger Boarding Information; Books Not to Read by RAS Contributors; Tail Stickers for Aircraft; Fear of Flying; Music and Flying; Unteachable Student; Learnin' Ain't Easy; CFI Selection; Flying Clubs; Flight Instructors; Instructional Program; Costs: Growing Up as a Pilot; …Why? …

P 12 The Beginning Student

Pilots are special; Selecting Your Instructor; Evaluation of CFIs, Where to go? What to do?, Imersion Program; Factors in Successful Learning; Commitment to Flying; Preliminaries to Flight; First Flight Preparations; Learning to Fly; Changing You; Helping Your Instructor Help You; Helping Yourself; The Student as a Student; Keeping Anger in Its Place; Student Evaluation; My Kind of Student; The Best Program; Kelly Learned; Training Advice

p 21 Living with Mistakes Learning from Your Mistakes; Dealing with Delays; Preparation; Decisions, Decisions, Decisions; About Questions; It's about judgment; Visualizing Your Training; Side Notes; On Checklists; Mad as Hell and Taking It; Medical Certification; Student Certificates; Medical Certification Changes; Not making progress?; Recipe for Failure; Quitting Training; Areas of Failure; Organizing Flying ; Conquering Fears with Knowledge ; The Two-way Street of Flight Instruction; Learning Based on the Mistakes of Others; Changes That Are Among us; Anger and Learning to Fly; Flying the Good Flight; Landing Advice to Student; Advice to Student; Advice to a Pilot; I Am Afraid to Fly Alone; …and Sin No More; More about Accidents;

P 2 Instructors Learn, too.

Instructor Ideas; Instructor Factors; Preflight Discussion; Teaching Precepts; Advice to Instructor: I am a Professional; On Instruction; Instruction as I Do It; The Departure Procedure; Postflight Debriefing; Area Familiarization; The cockpit; Pilot Error Fifty Years Ago; Teaching to a Higher Level; A Training Program; Major CFI applicant problem areas; Why CFIs Fail Checkrides; Instructional Sequence; Gaining Experience; Age as a factor in Instruction; Quality or Quantity; Abnormal Situation Training; Communication Mistakes by Instructors; Providing Experience as Instructional Purpose;

p 3 Instructors Learn More

Judgment of Limitations; About Students; Self-Doubt is Normal; Who's in Charge?; Instructional Constants; What My Instruction Is Not; Effective Criticism Requires; Procedure and Technique; Anticipation ; Holding Headings; Flying with your senses; The nature of Certainty ;The Student as a Problem; Smoothness; Failed Teaching; A Need to Communicate; Teaching Memory; Reaction and Anticipation; Instructional Sequence Chart, Teaching Efficiency; Command Authority; Instruction; The Instructor; Introduction to the Radio

P 4 Instructors Learn Much More

Items; CFI PTS; Flight Checklist for Instructor; Flight Checklist for Student; Evaluating a partially Trained Student; Accentuating the Positive; FAA Instructional Format; Teaching the FAA Way; Planned Instruction; Effective Instruction; Instructional Safety; Wearing thin Pants; On Motivation; When a Pilot dies; Joys of Flying; Designing Lessons; The competence of Incompetence; Knowing Know; Training Attitudes; Military Instruction; CFI Abuses of Student Time; One CFI + One CFI = Problems; Time for First Solo; Teaching Airplane English; Transcription on Failed CFI Employment Checkride; Good Instruction; My Solos Take Longer;

P41 Instructional Opinions
#1 Patterns in a C-172; #2 Type of Instruction; #3 Use of Yoke; #4 Opinion on FAA; #5 Bank Angle and Speed; First Lesson; Yoke Control; Getting Radar Help; Looking, Seeing, Recognizing; Using Checklists; Landing on the Numbers; What Helped with Landings; Dumb Things

P 51 The people;

The examiner; … The Instructor; … The applicant; …Order of PTS Flight Problems; … Why Applicants Fai l; … Are You Ready?; … Calming Anxiety; … Written Specifics; FAA Ramp Check

p 52 PTSHealth factors;

Filling out eh Medical Form; Age as a Factor in Flying; Fatigue; Subtle Fatigue; Sleep; Medicine; Carbon Monoxide; Cold Weather; Dehydration; Ear Block; Hyperventilation; Hypoxia; Smoking; Coffee; Spatial Disorientation; Stress; Vertigo; Nutrition: Over the Counter Medicine; You vs. the FAA; Diabetes; Marijuana; Melanoma; Hypoxia and Carbon Monoxide; Sound; Hearing; Noise; Noise Effects; Hearing Damage; Alcohol;

P53 Learning from History
The Engines; Getting Ready for WWII; Radar; Engine Knock; How aircraft got their Red and Green running lights; Why Airplane Pilots Sit on the Left Side; Different miles and how they came to be; It's About Time; Time; Way to Go; Measures; The Loran System; The Lodestone; The E-6B; Origins of ATC; Instrument Landing System; The Radio Range; What Might Have Been;

p 5 Learning from History;

SPINS WERE A ONE TIME THING IN 1914; ; Buying the Farm; How we got patterns A and B; Holding patterns(IFR); Why We Squawk; Absolute Altitude; WHY PILOTS WALK FUNNY; Shirt tails; Society of Automotive Engineers; The Johnson Bar: Trim Tab Inventor; Pitot Tube Inventor; Names and What; Wifferdil; Hundred Octane Aviation Fuel; Air Traffic Control; Autopilot called George; Windsock; Buchannan Field; Associated Airport; Teaching 30-years Ago; What's New; 521 Maintenance;.Development of Aviation; ...Radio Q-History; Phillips Head Screws;

P 61 Initial Requirements for Solo

Introduction ; Student supervision; Pre-solo Flight Training; Solo Required Knowledge---FAR Part 61.87; Student pilot requirements and limitations; Student Pilot Requirements; Student Pilot Limitations---FAR PART 61.89; Flight Rules---FAR PART 91; Compliance Required for Flight; Aircraft Basic Knowledge Sheet; Solo Phase Check Flight; Solo Phase Check Oral; Aircraft V-Speeds; First Solo; Instructor Requirements; The Flight;

p 62 Pre-solo Written Test and Endorsements

Written Test on Essential Knowledge; Expected Student Resources; Essential Knowledge; Presolo Test of Student Pilot C-15-/152/172 Operation; Part 91 General Operating and Flight Rules; Requirements for Solo Flight Endorsement; Student Pilot Endorsements; Remarks and Endorsements; Logbook specifics; Instructor making endorsement must; 13 Areas of Required Ground Instruction for Private Pilots; Flight Proficiency Requirements; Other Endorsements ; Spin Knowledge; Spin awareness; Second Solo; Solo Instruction; After Solo-What?; CCR to Local Airports;

p 6 Sources of Information;

Phone Numbers; DUATS; Locators; Airport diagrams; PIREP INFO; Phases of the Moon; TAF and METAR translators; ATC Operations manual; Radar Weather; Web Sources; Web Aviation; The Written ; Flight Planner; FAA web sites; NTSB Accidents; Part61 & PART 141; Weather; METAR; GPS; Simulator of HSI; Palm Pilot references; Simulator; IFR; CFI; VOR Tutorials; Medical; Live Audio; Practical Test Standards; Study Materials; FARs and Requirements; Equipment; FAAFlight Standards Service; FSS Codes; Route Codes; OAK Flight Watch; Recommended Reading; Getting on the Mailing Lis t; Advisory Circular ; Pilots Operating Handbook;

P71 More Sources of Information
VOR Trainer; Flight P:lanners; Checkrides; Training; FAA Written Test; Practical Test Standards; Sources; Aircraft Information; Airports; Taxi Diagrams; Spins; Live Radio; Distances; Weather; Pilot Information; Time; FAA Sources; Charts; Medical;

p 7 Statistics of Flying

2000 Statistics; 1999 Was a Very Good Year; General Info; 1998 Stats; 1996 for 100,000 hours of flying; 1997 Nall Report; Airline Pilots; 1998 Nall Report; 1999 Nall Report; Your CFI as a Hazard ; Fuel/Electric Accidents; General Aviation; General Aviation Accidents;1989-1993 in the USA; 1995 statistics; Learning; Recall; Written Test; 1995 Figures; About Accidents; General Aviation 1996; Homebuilt Accidents; Why and When of Accidents; Engine Failure Accidents; Probable Causes; Engine Component Failure Accidents; D escending Mechanical Failure Frequency; Retractables; Fixed Gear Accidents; Night Accidents; Mountain Accidents; Wire Strikes; Wake Turbulence; Shoulder Harness; Weather Accidents; Accidents by Experience Level; IFR Rated Pilot; Non-IFR Pilot; Why Accidents?; Thoughts on Thoughts ; Coffee; Alcohol; Smoking; Data for West '92 ; Fatalities and Survival; Stall Spin Accidents; Forced Landings; Fuel accidents; Nice To Know Information; Aviator's Lies; Flight Contradictions; Where Accidents Happen; Accident precipitating Causes 1991; ATC problems in Descending Order; FAR Violations in descending order; Midair accidents in10-years; Historical Midairs; More on Mid-airs; Controlled Flight into Terrain; Bird Strikes; ...Taildraggers; ...

p 81 Lessons for a Good Start;
Economics of Instruction; It Was A Good Lesson; Presolo Lessons; Lessons 1-3 Airwork; Lessons 4-5 Ground Reference; Lesson 6 ; Lesson 7-8 Pattern Operations; Lesson Seven; Lesson Eight; Lesson 9 Pre-solo Exercise; Lesson 10 Solo Pattern Exercise ; Minimum Preflight ; Ready to Solo ; Presolo Flight Training:; Required Knowledge; Knowledge of flight rules; Five Areas of Failure; Preflight Instruction; Thoughts; Standard Operational Procedure;

Practical Test standards

p 8 PTS Performance Test standards

Private Pilot Performance Standards; FAR 61.43 Flight Tests; PTS Oral/Flight Test; Are you FARs ready?; Universal Aspects; The Practical Test; Areas of Required Knowledge; The PTS; Applicant Summary; Private Pilot Requirements; As A Licensed Pilot You Should; PRACTICAL TEST STANDARDS; Basic Maneuver Tolerances :; Preflight & Cockpit Management; Engine Starting; Post-start; Taxiing; Run-up; Pre-takeoff; Before takeoff check; Takeoffs; Normal and Crosswind; Soft Field; Short Field Takeoffs; Traffic Patterns; Landings on Final; Post Landing Checklist; Parking and Tiedown; Safe Operation; Go-around; Steep Turns; Ground reference; Pilotage and Dead Reckoning; Slow flight; Minimum Controllable; Power-off Stalls; Power on stalls; Spin Awareness (Discussion); IFR Maneuvers; Unusual Attitude Recoveries; Communication, ATC & Radar ;_ Emergency Procedures; Emergency Landing; Equipment and Survival Gear; Systems Malfunction; Night Flight (Discussion); Diversion to Alternate; Lost Procedures; Airport; VOR tracking; Diversion to Alternate; Emergency Equipment; Pilot in Command Time; Paperwork:; Aircraft Logbooks; Student Logbook Requirements; In Possession for Checkride; Ground Review; Flight Review; Private Pilot Legality; Private Pilot Currency; Private Pilot Sharing of Expenses; Additional Endorsements; Performance Sheet ASEL; Private Pilot Endorsements; Aeronautical Knowledge; FAR 61.35(a)(f) and 61.105(a) Aeronautical Knowledge; Flight Instruction/Proficiency Requirement; Take Practical Test; Completion of Prerequisites for a Practical Test; Test after Failure;

p 91 PTS Engine and Airframe Paperwork

DETERMINING PERFORMANCE AND LIMITATIONS; Performance sheet ASEL; OPERATION OF AIRPLANE SYSTEMS; MINIMUM EQUIPMENT LIST; Permanent Records; Engine Logs; Inspections; Operating without a (MEL); MEL Decision Sequence; Repairs; _Airworthiness Directives (ADs); Service Difficulty Reports (SDRs); Service Bulletin; Maintenance Records; Airworthiness Directive; Pilot/Owner Maintenance; WD-40 and Cleaning; Most dangerous thing in aviation; Unfamiliar Systems; Differential Pressure Check; Manifold Pressure and More;

p 9 PTS Aircraft papers and Airspace;

CERTIFICATES AND DOCUMENTS; The Aircraft; Sequence of Decision for Airworthiness; FAR 91 Aircraft equipment required; OBTAINING WEATHER INFORMATION; CROSS-COUNTRY PLANNING; NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM; Airspace; Airspace Violations; Altitude & Airspace; Part-time Airspace; Air Traffic Control (ATC); Class Alpha; Class Bravo; Class Charlie; Class Delta; Flight in Class D Airspace?; Class Echo; Class Golf ; Airways; Prohibited; Restricted; Warning; Alert; Military Operations; Training routes; Special Use; Temporary; Controlled Firing; SR training routes; wildlife Areas; Temporary Flight Restrictions; Learning Airspace; Airspace Revisited;

p a12 PTS Preflight, Starting and Departing;

PREFLIGHT INSPECTION; COCKPIT MANAGEMENT; STARTING ENGINE; Engine Starting; Engine Failure; TAXIING; PRE-TAKEOFF CHECKLIST; RADIO USE/LIGHT SIGNALS; Controlled Airport Radio; Uncontrolled Airport radio; Light Series; TRAFFIC PATTERNS; AIRPORT-RUNWAY LIGHTING-MARKING

p a1PTS Airport and ground patterns;

NORMAL AND CROSSWIND TAKEOFFS;- NORMAL AND CROSSWIND TAKEOFF PROCEDURES ;- NORMAL/CROSSWIND APPROACHES AND LANDINGS; Crosswind Approach and Landing; SOFT-FIELD TAKEOFF AND CLIMB; SOFT-FIELD APPROACH AND LANDING; SHORT-FIELD TAKEOFF AND CLIMB; SHORT-FIELD APPROACH AND ACCURACY LANDING; Special Landing Situations; FORWARD SLIPS TO LANDING; GO-AROUND; STEEP (CONSTANT ALTITUDE) TURNS; Descending Turns; RECTANGULAR COURSE; S-TURNS; TURNS AROUND A POINT; Student Question;

p a20 PTS Navigation,

PILOTAGE AND DEAD RECKONING; Common Navigation Faults; Dead Reckoning; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS AND RADAR SERVICES; DIVERSION; LOST PROCEDURES; KEEPING IT SIMPLE; Compass Errors; Swing the Compass; A New Age; Magnetic Variation;

P a21 PTS Slow Flight and Stalls

Ground Instruction in Stalls; MANEUVERING DURING SLOW FLIGHT; POWER OFF STALL; Stalls; PTS Power-off Stall; Stalls; POWER-ON STALLS; Power-on Stalls; Power-on Stall Break; Stalls in Skids and Slips; Imminent Stalls; Stall Recognition; Stall Recovery; Nine Demonstration Stalls;

P a22 PTS Spin Awareness

SPIN AWARENESS; Sources of Inadvertent Stalls Becoming Spins; Endorsement For Spin Awareness; Spinning out of the Clouds; Inadvertent Spin Causes; Intentional Spins Prohibited; Placards; Spin Training and Parachutes; Types of Spins;

P a23 PTS Hood Flying

STRAIGHT AND LEVEL FLIGHT; CONSTANT AIRSPEED CLIMBS; CONSTANT AIRSPEED DESCENTS; TURNS TO HEADINGS; UNUSUAL FLIGHT ATTITUDES; Simple Unusual Attitude Recoveries; Spiral Instability; RADIO AIDS AND RADAR SERVICES;

p a3 PTS Emergency and night;

EMERGENCY DESCENT; Emergency Addendum; Emergency Descent; EMERGENCY APPROACH AND LANDING; SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS; EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT AND SURVIVAL GEAR; NIGHT PREPARATION; NIGHT FLIGHT; AFTER LANDING; PARKING AND SECURING; Least familiar FARs; Landing Light; Logging Time;

p a41 Questions and Answers

Checkride questions (20 pages);

p a42 Questions and Answers

…Questions and answers; (9 pages

P s4 3 Checkride stories

Basic Flight Operations

p a 51 Flight Preflight and Checklists

Flight Preflight ; Pilot Preflight; Experienced Advice; Aircraft Preflight; Risk; Landing Gear Checks; Tires as a Safety Factor; Seating; Cockpit Checkouts; Checklists; Famous Pre-takeoff Checklist; Peace Sign; Preflight Options; Develop a Pattern for; Pre-start/Start Checklist; Start/Post Start; Runup; Runup Pre-takeoff; Pre-takeoff Considerations; Pre-takeoff; Prelanding; Post-Landing; Changing Terminology; Emergency Checklists; Personal Minimums Checklist; Caveats on Making Checklists; Cockpit Management;

p a5 Trim and Holding the Yoke;

Trim history; Trim; Trim Use; Cruise-Control; Tight Grip vs light touch; Trim instruction (Instructor); Trimming Cessnas; Trim Exercises; Emergency Trim Use;

p a61 Airport Ground Operations;

Taxiing Renewal; The Last Thing You Learn; Basics of Taxiing; Staying Lined Up; Runway Incursions; Prevention of taxiing problems; Incursions; Getting the ATIS; New ATIS sequence 1999; Taxiing; More Taxiing; Brakes; Smooth/Sharp Parking Turns; Ground Radio to Taxi; Courtesy; Runup; Taxiing Instruction; Yoke Control; Pre-takeoff Considerations; Pre-takeoff; Departure Radio; Arrival Radio; Post-Landing; Parking; Shutdown; Post-flight Inspection; Tie Down; Incursions; Excursions; Low Visibility Taxiing;

p a6 Ground Reference;

Introduction to Ground Reference; Why Ground Reference?; Ground Reference; Wind and Ground speed; Thinking Through Patterns; Turns About a Point; Cheating Your Way to a Circle; Spirals about a Point; Pylon, on a point and about a point turns; Course Reversal; Rectangular Patterns; S-Turns; Eights; River Flying with Steep Turns; Spiral Descents; Airspeed lesson

p a71 Turns Are Complex

Angle of Attack (AOA); Controls and What They Do; Anticipation; Holding Headings; Oh, that right rudder; Level Dynamics; Turns Lesson; Leveling Off from Climb; Level Cruise #1; Level Cruise #2; Level Cruise #3; Unable to fly level; On making turns; Why turns turn; Level Turn Dynamics; Bank recovery to a heading; Level Turns; Level turn exercises; Climbing Left Turns; Climbing Right turns; Steep Turns; More Thoughts; Second Way; Steep Turns (Basic); Steep Turns (Complex); VSI in Slow Flight and Steep Turns; Downwind Turn; Impossible Turn; Clearing Turns; Graveyard Spiral;

p a7 Hood Flying and Illusions

Hood Training; Hood; Standard Rate Turns; Timed Turns; Unusual Attitudes; Unusual Attitudes; Teaching Unusual Attitudes; No More Vertigo; Simulation is not Reality; Tumbling Gyros; VFR to IFR Options; You and Illusions; IFR Flying Faults; Vertigo; Illusions; Natural Illusions; Night Illusions; Landing Illusions; Visual Deception; Black Hole Landing; IFR for VFR Pilots; Scan; Hood Lessons; Vertigo Simulation; Practice Illusions; Instructional use of MS flight simulator;

p a8 Stall origins and performance

Slow Flight; Aircraft stall factors; Desirable Stalls; Trim in the stall; Wings in the Stall; Rudder in the stall; First stall instruction; Stall Lesson; PTS Stalls; Objectives of stall instruction; Clearing turns; Where to practice; Not so real Stalls; Stall Exercises; Stall Avoidance Practice at Slow Airspeeds; Stall Recognition; Natural stall warning; Generic stall Recovery; Secondary Stall; Stalls Down Low; Deep stall; Stall Recoveries; Stall Proficiency; Power-Off Stall; Power-on stall (Partial power); Departure Stall; Approach Stall; Accelerated Stall; Accelerated Stall Situations; Cross Control Turn Base to Final Stall; Unrecoverable stall; Trimmed go-around stall; Engine Failure at Altitude; Takeoff Engine Failure Stall; Engine Failure on Final Stall; Landing flare stall; Premature flap retraction stall; Go-around in a Right Crosswind Stall; Slow flight in a pattern stall; Short field takeoff stall; Falling Leaf Stall; More on stalls; Stall Review; Stalls in brief;

P a9Carburetor Ice and Heat;

Carburetor Heat; Occurrence; Three kinds of Carburetor Ice; Recognition; Using carburetor heat; Application; Results; Questions and Answers; Carburetor Ice (Opinion)

p b11 About Aircraft Speeds;

The Aircraft You Fly Is Showing Its Age; Pitot-Static System; Airspeed indicator; Airspeed; Pitch vs. Powe r; Pitch for Speed; Airspeeds; V- Speeds; Uncommon V-speeds; V-Speeds and Flaps; Standard performance profiles; Pitch; Climbs; Power curve; Pattern speeds; Variations on a Theme ; Pattern Airspeed; Preliminaries to airspeed; Cessna 150; Cessna 172; Speed changes from normal-cruise; C-150 airspeed exercise; C-172 airspeed exercise; Glide speeds; Touchdown Speeds; Airspeed and slips; Va; ...The Performance Envelope; Structural Speed Limits; Best Glide by Weight; Speeds and Density Altitude; Breguet Range Equstion;

p b12Planning Arrivals;

Airport Operations; Arrival; Radio log; Airport Information; Weather Information; Crosswind Information;

p b1 Takeoffs and Departures;

POH takeoff factors; Takeoff Notes; P-Factor; Takeoff to enroute procedures; Takeoffs are different from landings; Takeoff Killers; Attitude; A proficient pilot can; The takeoff; Why takeoff pitch changes; Short Field Takeoff; Soft-Field Takeoff; Downwind Takeoff; Short, Soft, and Rough Takeoff; Aborted Takeoff; Crosswind Takeoff; Class C Mountain Departure; Close the Door;

Knowing the Aircraft

p b2 Maintenance and paperwork;

Know the Airplane; Aerobatics; GA aircraft in icing conditions; Aircraft Papers; Weight and Balance; Aircraft Loading; Airworthiness; Airworthiness and maintenance; Who's to Blame; Supplemental Type; Airworthiness Responsibility; Records and current inspections; Aircraft Parts; Is it Airworthy?; Performance Modification; Insurance; Changing Type Certificates; Permanent Records; Aircraft and Engine Logbooks; Inspections; Operating without a (MEL); Duplicated in PTS info; MEL Decision Sequence; Inoperative equipment; Pilot maintenance; Most dangerous thing in aviation; Inspections; Airworthiness Directives (ADs); Service Difficulty Reports (SDRs); Service Bulletin; Major maintenance; Overhauls vs Zero Time; Fault; Airworthiness Directive; Permanent; Maintenance; WD-40; Maintenance Shakedown; Things that go wrong; NTSB Reporting; Performance; Cleaning Materials;

p b31 Engine Operations and Systems;

The Engine; Getting Old; Engine Systems; In an hour; Use of aluminum; Engine History; Pilot training; Preflight neglect; Fuel Problems; Fueling; Engine TBO; Engine Operation; Constant Speed Propellers; Primer; Engine maintenance; .Trend monitoring; Engine savers; Engine operations to avoid; Ways of Losing Power; Engine Warnings; Top Overhaul; Factors reducing engine power; Valves; Breaking in an Engine; Exhaust System; Drag and cooling; Shock Cooling; Engine Heat; Magnetos; P-Lead; Distributor; Spark Plugs; Ignition Problems; Carburetors; Carburetor Heat; Air Intake; Vacuum Pump; Engine Monitor; Oi l; Oil analysis; Oil Pressure Gauge; Oil Temperature Gauge; Cylinder Head Temp Gauge; Carburetor Temperature Gauge; Tachometer; RPM; Engine Isolators; Lycoming Shut Down; Fuel Efficiency; Tire History; Basics of Tire Construction; Tire Classification; Tire Care; Flying with Pressure; Altimeter; Rusting Out;

p b3 The electrical system;

Owner Maintenance Item; Electrical System Failure; Electrical System; Alternators; Generator; Ammete r; Alternator Failure Checklist; Voltage Regulator; Electrical Failure; Electrical Failure Checklist; Electrical Emergency; Position Lighting; Starters; Precipitation Static;

p b41 Flying surfaces and controls

Wing; Wing terminology; Controls and What They Do; Horizontal Tail Surfaces; Rudder; More Rudder; Flying with Rudder; Frise Aileron; Latches; Rig; Spiral stability; Aircraft Category; Lifting Surfaces; L/D Ratio; Wing Loading; Power Loading; Drag & Performance; Parasitic Drag; Induced Drag; Boundary Layer; Control Failure; Cables; Aircraft Aluminum; Corrosion and Skin Condition; Hoses and Lines; Plastic Windows; Hobbs Meter; Stall Warner; Spinner; Pitot Heat; Cabin heat; Oxygen; Maintenance failures; Paint; Pilot Induced Oscillation; The Propeller; Over-square Constant-Speed Propeller Operation; Using Your Non-flight Instruments; Angles; Stability; Flap Chafe Caps; Static Wicks; Windows;

p b42 Pilots Operating Handbook

Ultimate Load Factor;Beyond book flying; Performance at density altitudes; Emergency; Shoulder harness; Areas of Failure ; Aircraft Warners; Aircraft Maintenance Checklist; Functional Flight Check; Make a Fuel Consumption Chart; Lean Your Fuel Mixture; POH vs FOM; Make a FOM for Yourself; New Aircraft Checkout; Release; Terms; Weight and Balance; Calculating Weight and Balance; Weight; Center of Gravity; Moment

Flying Situations;

p b4 Charts, Airports and Procedures

VFR Charts; Runway lights; All Available Information; Aviation Charts (first); Reading the Sectional; VOR box;
World Aeronautical Charts (WAC); Class Bravo airspace; Phonetic alphabet and Time Zones; Different Miles and How they Came to Be; It's about time; Way to Go; Controlled airports; Towered Procedures; Class-D Airport Departures; At runway you can request; Class-D airport Arrivals; Two-mile reports; Air Traffic Control; A Pattern to Patterns;

p b51 Uncontrolled airports

Reference; Non-tower Overflights; Controlling the Uncontrolled Airport; Non-tower Operation; Two kinds of unicom; The callup; Non-Tower Airport Arrival Procedures; Visual Indicators at Uncontrolled Airports; Wind sock; Uncontrolled airport Traffic Patterns; Traffic Indicators; What I dislike in this option is; Common Mistakes at Non-Tower Airports; Uncontrolled Airport Departures; Non-unicom Uncontrolled Airports;

p b5 Radar Procedures;

FAR 91.215 Transponder Requirements; Web Radar; Radar Facilities; Bay Tracon; Oakland Center; Military Radar; ATC radar accountability; VFR radar advisories; Class B Airspace; Class C Airspace; Basic enroute procedure; The Handoff; Operational Procedures; The Best from Radar Communications; Radar Communication; ATC Radar Acknowledgment; Transponder Failure; The Danger of Expectations;

p b6 SVFR and scud running;

SVFR Changes 2000; When SVFR; You never know when you will need SVFR; Safe SVFR is much like safe sex...come prepared; Special Visual Flight Rules--SVFR; Altitudes and Clouds; Need to Know Information; More SVFR; What SVFR is not; Class B Airspace; Low Visibility SVFR; Low Ceiling SVFR; Night SVFR; CCR SVFR situations; Scud Running; Minimum Safe Altitude; Low level pilotage; Knowing the options; Knowing your best options; Wire Strikes; Low Altitudes; See and Be Seen; Minimums Instruction; VFR at Minimums; Low level CCR to Petaluma; Petaluma to CCR; CCR to Rio Vista at Minimums; CCR to APC at Minimums; SVFR Clearances; VFR Cloud Clearances and Visibility;

p b71 Flying at Night

Night Flight; Night Vertigo; Night flight checklist; Flying at Night Is Not; FAA Examiner Update; Physiology of night; Night sight skills; Night x-country; Night Taxiing; FAR Night Flight Requirements; Night Takeoff; Night landings; Night Instruction; Night Flying; Doing it at night; Night Lights; Uncontrolled airport; What to do if; Night illusions; Black Hole Approaches; VFR Night with IFR Help; No Light Landing at Night (emergency); A 'blind' Clearance at OAK; Knowing Night from Day; Civil Twilight

p b7 Preparing a Cross-country

Cross-Country Student Pilot Experience Requirements; Cross Country Checkride; Airport/Facilities Directory; The Pilot Operating Handbook; Cross-country planners; Flight Planning Basics; Planning a Cross Country; Beginning; Spacing Departure End to Destination Checkpoints; Cross Country Radio Preparation; Suggested Radio Procedures; Night Before a Cross Country; Preflight weather; Information from you; NOTAMS; Standard Weather Briefing; Abbreviated weather briefing; Outlook weather briefing; Inflight briefing; Pilot Questions of Briefer; Avoiding convection; Get the Weather and More; Now That You Have the Weather; Morning of a Cross Country; E-6B; Electronic Calculators; Plotter; Navigational Log; Suggested log procedure; Simplified form; A Flight Log; Before a Cross Country; Cross-country Lessons; Cross-Country Suggestions; Departure from Gnoss; Departure from STS; Arrival at Red Bluff; Cross-Country Phase Check; California to Illinois, Money Well spent for Flight Planning; Planning a Long Cross-Country; Fuel Consumption Check; Making an Airport Compass Chart; Quick Cross-Country Planner;

Pageb81 Student Cross-Countries
Flight 1; Flight 2; Flight 3

p b8 Flying the Cross-country

If You Go Weather Services; Takeoff planning; Flight Planning; Range and endurance; Procedures List; Compass check technique; Checkpoint Checklist; Finding Airports; Have a planned arrival; emergency planning; Arrival at destination; What if..planning; Enroute in Brief; VOR sensitivity check; Route selection; Less Than Perfect; Enroute Fuel; Going further faster; Density altitude; Flying in density altitudes; The Last Leg; Descents; Pilotage; Efficiency Flying; Dead Reckoning; VFR over the top; Finding yourself; Lost Procedures; Thinking through being lost; Common Cross-Country errors; Instruction tips; Future Automation; Crew Coordination; Glass Cockpit; Crosswind Correction; Notes of CA to IL Flight; Advice to a Cross-Country Student; Management of Fuel; Logging Cross-Country;

p b91 Cold-weather flying

Cold Weather Starting; Cold Weather Flying; Defrosting; Cold Flight Checklist; Icing and PIREPs; Flight in Icing; Icing; Tail Stall; Survival Kit; Survival Basics; Fears in Survival Situations; Enemies of Survival; Rules of ABC:; Crash Survival; Winter clothing:; Living with Weather Delays; Weather Avoidance; Fog; Cold Weather Cross-Country Planning; Seven Aircraft Considerations; Ice Prevention; Signs of Ice; Snow, Ice or Frost on the Wings; Opinion; Icing; Levels of Icing; If You Cam't Avoid Ice;

p b9 Mountain Flying and Turbulence

Flying Mountains; General Advice; Flying the Plane; Climb; Descent; Airports; Mountain Airports; Speed; Altitude; Turns at High Altitudes; Performance; Location; Radios; Mountain Decisions; The Solution; Do Your Own Preflight; Wind; Mountain winds; Turbulence; You and turbulence; Wake turbulence; Five Stages of a Vortex; Vortices; Wake Avoidance Checklist; Density altitude; Density Altitude Operations; Bay Area to Reno/Tahoe in a C-172;

Aircraft specifics and more

p c11 Cessna 150 techniques;

Late Model C-150; Nose-wheel; C-150 flaps; Trim and the C-150; Basic Maneuvers; Climbing Turns; Descents; Descending Turns; C-150 as a glider; Pre-crash; Consolation; Precision Slow-flight; No Flaps Slow Flight; Exercise; Standards; C-150 Procedures; C-150 POH; Fuel Consumption; Fuel gauges; Building a Checklist; Aircraft Basic Knowledge Sheet; Finger-Flow Checklist; Checklist errors; Landing Distances; Performance Synopsis; Landing the C-150; Rudder Jamming Problems; Glide;

p c12 Beech Skipper
Preliminary Checklist #1

p c1 Cessna 152 techniques;

Flying the C-152 pattern Cessna's way; About the Cessna 152; Calibrating C-152 trim; Short Field Takeoff; Soft Field Takeoff; Spins; Traffic Pattern; Go-Around Full Flaps; Short Field Landing; Soft Field Landing; Crosswind Landing; Takeoff and Departure Stall; Approach to a Landing Stall; Approach to Landing Stall by Cessna FBO; C-152 Procedures; C-152 Checklist; In Flight Emergency Procedures; Committed to a Forced Landing; In Flight Fires; Icing; Normal Landing; Short Field landin g; Balked Landing; After Landing; Securing Aircraft; Aircraft Basic Knowledge Sheet; Calibrated vs. Indicated Airspeeds; Flying Safer; C-152 Spin Opinion; C-152 Approach Speed Opinion;

p c21 C-172 Procedures
C-172 Procedures; C-172 spins; C-172 Checklists; Aircraft Basic Information Sheet; No Trim Landing System; C-172 Accident Rate; Calibrated vs.Indicated Speeds; IFR Performance; Fuel Consumption; How to Land a C-172; C-172 Speeds; C-172 Emergency Turn;

p c2 Cessna 172 techniques;

C-172 Information; C-172 Model M (Re-engined model N); 1955 to 1986 C-172 Differences; Lycoming; Takeoff/landing comparison; C-172 Differences and checkout; Damaging Aircraft; Exercise in C-172: C-172 Procedures and Landings; Precision approach speed no flaps; Level Cruise; Climb at 90 knots; Level approach speed at 90 knots; Level Approach speed at 90 knots #2; Descending approach speed at 90 knots; Approach descent speed at 90 knots;

p c3 Cessna 182 techniques;

C-182 RG Transition; Adequate Checkout; Complex/High Performance; Checkout in 61X; 7561X; Flaps; Fuel tanks; Oil; Gear warning; Retractable landing gear; Gear-up Landings; The standby Vacuum System in 61X; Constant Speed Propeller; Increasing power of constant speed operations; Over-Square Operations; C-182 accidents; Comparing Short field landings; Emergency procedures; Flight Transitions Chart; Another Checklist; Checkout Form; Another C-182 Checklist; Gumps check; Aircraft Basic Information Sheet; Complex Aircraft;

p c4 PIPER Checkout

FYI; Piper Checkout; The Engine; Lycoming Shutdown; Piper to Piper Transitions; Preflight Items; Checking Tires;
Neutral Trim Set; Fuel; Preflight; On Entering the Cockpit; Piper Design Differences; Piper takeoff; Piper landings; Question; PIPER CHECKLIST; Aircraft Basic Information Sheet; Starting;

p c51 Staying Proficient and Current

New pilot; Upward Transition; Practicing Precision; Old pilot's survival kit; Is the Pilot 'Good'?; Generic Aircraft; Desirable Traits of a Pilot; Judgment; Proficiency; Paper requirements of pilo t; Carry Passengers; Passenger information sheet; A passenger has no right; More than just staying airborne; Private Pilot's First Flight; Frequency Cards; You as the Instructor; Flying at a Higher Level; What It Takes; Flight Review; Instrument Proficiency Review; C-172 Checkout;

p c5 Checkout and Flight Review
Aircraft Transitions; Checkout requirements of pilot; Review POH for aircraft capabilities and limits; Cross-country procedures; Proficiency Retention; Loss of skills; Lost performance factors; Forms of complacency; Ground Instruction proficiency review; Flight Instruction proficiency review; Instructor advice; Flight Review; Review Items; Engine shutdown and parking; Legal Requirements of an Aircraft; Legal Requirements of a Pilot; Legal flight Rules; Flight review plan and Checklist; Flight Review Musts; Your First Flight Review Landing; …

p c61RULES OF THUMB

Basic Rule of Thumb; TEMPERATURE; Dew point; LANDING PERFORMANCE; Descent; WEIGHT; RECIPROCALS; COMPASS TURNS; Knots to Miles per Hour; WINDS;
Wind Correction Angle; TURNS (IFR); DENSITY ALTITUDE; ..PERFORMANCE; TRUE AIRSPEED;

About landings

p c62 Flying airport patterns;

Airport pattern authority; Pattern Safety; Why 30-degree banks; Patterns using the Heading Indicator; Landing suggestion s; Airport procedures; Pattern skills; Airport arrivals; Two-mile reports; Airport departures; Class-D airport departures; Noise abatement; Flying the pattern; Difficult patterns; Approach; Traffic patterns; Pattern Diagrams; Traffic watch; Seeing what you're looking for; Runway lights; Short Approach;