Sport-Pilot Training

Our sport-pilot training articles are designed to help you improve your flying proficiency. Bone up on beneficial skills as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid as a pilot. Fly right with articles on topics such as dealing with ice and the most dangerous things you can do as a pilot.

The Checkride Chronicles A year in the life of a designated pilot examiner Who’s the judge beside you in the cockpit, deciding whether you’re worthy of receiving aviation’s highest honor (a license to learn)? Hopefully, it’s someone who’ll make your entry into the world of aviation less than turbulent.

Flying The Friendly Skies: No Better Time! This may be the perfect time to achieve your aviation dream Success in aviation always has been a matter of perspective. Student pilots hoping for an airline career in the ’50s attributed their lack of success to the oversupply of military pilots emerging from the Korean War.

Staying Centered If you’re a pilot, there’s more to staying centered than transcendental meditation It was 1984, and I was ferrying one of the last of the Cessna 207s to South America. It was a midsummer afternoon in South Texas, and the mushroom cumuli were climbing high into the stratosphere all along the border and south toward the Gulf of Mexico.

Top Mistakes In Convective Environments How to stay safe in bad weather Deep, moist convection, better known as thunderstorms, are the nemesis of all aircraft, big or small. Avoidance is mandatory.

Flying The Corridors VFR flight corridors serve a useful purpose in congested and some not-so-congested airspace V­FR corridors have served an important function in U.S. airspace since the creation of the old TCAs (Terminal Control Areas) and TRSAs (Terminal Radar Service Areas), now less telegraphically renamed Class B and Class C airspace, respectively.

Sporty’s Foundation: The Future Of Aviation One child at a time, Hal Shevers and his foundation are keeping aviation alive If we don’t get more young people interested in every aspect of general aviation, it will simply disappear as we know it,” Hal Shevers, the founder and chairman of Sporty’s Pilot Shop, tells me as he punctuates his sentence with a long pause and his piercing eyes.

Formation Flying! Part II The cognitive challenges of flying lead Formation flying is a dangerous and, for me, compellingly beautiful and engaging experience.

Ticket To Ride III Part III: Don’t get cocky, kid—You’ve soloed. Time to prep for The Ride! Right after soloing in 860LS, the lovely Flight Design CTLS, I feel light as a cloud.

Lowest To Highest From below sea level to a Colorado high in a light jet I spent over a year making the transition from piloting a TBM 700 turboprop to becoming a jet pilot; a process that has taken me through an ATP rating, two type ratings, a lot of simulator time, a jet trip to Paris, a bit of mentoring, one or two scary moments, some frustration and piles of cash

You Spin Me Round! Tutima Academy of Aviation Safety takes the unusual out of unusual attitudes When I was a student pilot and my instructor would send me on solo flights to practice maneuvers, stalls were always last on my list.

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