Sport-Pilot Training

Our 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.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Living Large Transitioning from a piston to a turbine Making the transition from a fixed- gear piston into a turbine isn't easy, cheap or quick, but it's possible.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Weather Avoidance: Back To Basics Ten simple steps to enhance your weather planning and avoid Mother Nature’s worst It's one of the great paradoxes in aviation that one of the biggest killers of pilots —weather—is one of the least understood and least taught subjects in primary flight instruction.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Combating Crosswinds Ten Things The Textbooks Don’t Tell You Neither the wind given to you by the tower, nor that shown on a mid-field wind sock, is likely to be what you actually experience when landing.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 How Low Should You Go? Speed never looks so spectacular as when you’re close to the ground The indiscretions of youth. It's all too easy to examine stupid pilot tricks and dismiss them as functions of immaturity.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Aerosim Flight Academy The professional flight-training difference It's not only general aviation that faces a pilot shortage.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Running With The Big Dogs: A Jet Experience “Flying Like The Pros” shows GA pilots big-cockpit methods and techniques Don't be in a rush to screw things up!" It's one of many little sayings and memory joggers that 2010 National CFI Of The Year Jeffrey Robert Moss (everyone calls him "MossY") teaches students in his Flying Like The Pros (FLTP) system.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Airline Transport Professionals Preparing pilots for professional airline careers since 1984 As it prepares to celebrate its 28th anniversary, ATP has grown into one of the largest and most highly respected professional flight-training academies in the world.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Do Something Magical: Learn To Fly Innovation continues to change flight training, but it’s still about the fun I'm still learning to fly. Even three decades after earning my private pilot certificate at 17, I'm still a student pilot, and I'm okay with it.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Landing Without Flight Controls Under some conditions, it’s possible to land an airplane without using normal aerodynamic controls The airplane had been climbing through 8,000 feet out of Baghdad for Bahrain when it was hit in the left wing by a shoulder-launched, surface-to-air missile, fired by a Fedayeen terrorist.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 The Dangers Of Noise Fatigue Noise fatigue may be an often-overlooked cause of aircraft accidents in general aviation I was tired. No, beyond tired. I was fairly well-whipped. There are no legal limits imposed on flight hours associated with ferry flying, and stupidly.

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