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, June 7, 2011 Challenge Yourself!Comfort zones are slow death and are meant to be challenged One of the never-ending conversations in aviation starts with, "How does a person become a better pilot?" |
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Mysteries Of LandingNo, this isn’t the 11,398th story on how to land an airplane We've all read our share of stories on how to land an airplane, many of them written by pilots with "CFI" after their name. |
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Takeoff Mistakes: The Critical MinuteIt all has to come together in the first 60 seconds, or the rest of the flight may not matter Tom Willett was regarded as a natural. A former USAF navigator, Willett had become one of Globe Aero’s most reliable international ferry pilots. |
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Outside The CockpitA look at 10 nonflying careers Pilots aren't the only people who make a career in aviation and space. Airplanes and spacecraft are designed by engineers, built by factory workers, serviced by mechanics and technicians, and overseen by air traffic (or spacecraft) controllers. |
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Greasing It On: 20 Tips To Get ’Er DoneIt’s all in the details. And in the pilot’s attitude. We all know "those" kinds of pilots: They never bounce, are always down in the first few hundred feet, and put it on slicker’n a squashed gopher (I dare you). |
Thursday, March 17, 2011 ATP And MSU: A Partnership For The FutureA new way to train by leveraging online technology In the face of a looming pilot shortage that could make past shortages look like mere “blips” on the radar, a creative approach to flight training has been announced. |
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Keeping It RealNow in the fixed-wing market, FLYIT simulators are impressively realistic and take flight training to another level I’m weaving my Bell Jet Ranger helicopter through the labyrinthine Hong Kong skyline. |
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Immerse Yourself!If you’re ready for intensive training, AFIT will get you an instrument rating in 10 days No rating in aviation carries more mystique and prestige than the instrument rating. Sure, the ATP is a pinnacle of sorts, but for most pilots, the instrument rating is the big jump that separates professional pilots from their more casual brethren. |
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Perfect Your ApproachesNonprecision suggests a casual approach to IFR procedures, but you’d best fly them with precision One of the most basic tenets of journalism is that we're all either the beneficiaries or the victims of our sources. |
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Paths To The SkySo what’s it really like to go for your sport pilot ticket? In the seven years since FAA created the sport pilot/light-sport aircraft (SP/LSA) category, even with economic woes, nearly 2,000 LSA now grace America’s skies. |
