Flying is a life-changing event. I want to help enhance your flying in any way possible. I have an aerobatic tailwheel aircraft and can offer you tailwheel training, aerobatics, spin and/or upset training. I believe a big injustice is many pilots don't get to spin and have an unrealistic 'fear' of them. I would prefer pilots experience spins and know how to recover. I also ferry aircraft to suit your needs. Contact me at fly.fig.aviation@gmail.com
FIG Aviation
Flying IS Great - improve every flight!
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Latest Updates
- 20240501: Mayday May. See the focus items.
- 20240501: Tip of the Week: Slipping with full flaps. See all Tips.
- 20240422: New commercial check debrief. April 2024 (DPE Dunshee)
- 20240415: Energy Management. (FAASTeam)
- Webinars: FAA list of Webinars.
- Forest academics.
- Flying is great - improve every flight -
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Master Index
- Accidents (Human Factors).
- Acronyms and Mnemonics for aviation
- ACS - see Airman Certification Standards below.
- ADM (Aeronautical Decision Making).
- Aerodynamics.
- Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM).
- Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) - searchable!
- Air Traffic Control (ATC) - see Communication and ATC
- Aircraft lookup/research (in Reports)
- Airlines / ATP.
- AIRMETs and SIGMETs (in Weather)
- Airport / Runways / Facilities.
- Aircraft Category, Class, Type: Great summary.
- Aircraft Manuals / Pilot Operating Handbooks (POH).
- Airman Certification Standards (also see Checkrides).
- Airspace.
- Altitudes (see Instruments / Approaches)
- AOPA: Club finder | Event search | Safety quizzes
- Approach Lighting Systems, explained.
- Approaches, Instrument
- ASPEN EFD1000 MFD.
- ASRS (NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System)
- ATC (Communication and ATC)
- ATP - see Airlines
- Automation Management.
- Autopilot.
- Aviation Acronyms and Mnemonics
- Avidyne IDF540.
- Brief / Debrief.
- CFIT (controlled flight into terrain).
- Checklists, on G-Drive or Springs Aviation.
- Checkrides (also see Flight Reviews)
- Civil Air Patrol (CAP): eServices (HQ)
- Communication (and ATC)
- Compass, magnetic (including compass turns).
- Compliance Philosophy.
- Constant speed props & manifold pressure (also Engines / Powerplants).
- Concepts | Mentality | Truisms.
- CRM (crew resource management).
- Cross Country Planning / Flights
- Current vs Proficient.
- Debrief / Brief
- Decision Making.
- Departure, Instrument.
- Disaster Relief Flights Best Practices: from PALS.
- DPEs (in Checkrides).
- Emergencies.
- Endorsements (in Instruction).
- Energy management.
- Engine / Powerplant (also Leaning).
- Engine failure (Emergencies).
- Equipment (IFR/VFR required, suggested for aircraft).
- FAR (Federal Aviation Regulations).
- Flight following (Cross Country)
- Flight Plans.
- Flight Reviews (also see checkrides)
- Focus items by month.
- Forums: Pilots of America
- From the Flight Deck (FAA videos with wrong airport/surface landings).
- Garmin 430.
- Google Drive (public) - my G-Drive with a variety of flying-related material.
- Guides (user guides, pilots guides, manuals).
- Hazardous Attitudes.
- Human Factors.
- Illusions (Human Factors).
- ILS (instrument landing system).
- Impossible / Improbable Turn.
- Instruction
- Instrument Cockpit Check.
- Instrument Flight / Approaches.
- Jet Cruise Performance.
- Kneeboard - my format
- Landing / Takeoff (Maneuvers/Techniques/Execution)
- Leaning, engines.
- Links (see External Links, right side of page)
- Lost communication.
- Magnetic compass
- Magnetos.
- Maneuver Guide(s).
- Manifold Pressure and Constant Speed Props.
- Manuals (GPS, POHs, and other equipment).
- Medicals (see Human Factors).
- Memory aides (in Acronyms and Mnemonics).
- Mental math and Rules of Thumb (ROT).
- Mentality | Concepts | Truisms.
- Mnemonics, aviation.
- MOA (Military Training Area)
- Mountain Flying.
- MTR (Military Training Routes)
- Multiengine.
- My Morsels
- NASA: ASRS | Callback
- Navigation.
- Non-Towered Airport Communications (Pilot Workshops)
- NOTAMs
- NTSB Most Wanted List
- PAvE check - check of yourself before flying (see Acronyms and Safety)
- Percent Power.
- Performance, aircraft and calculations +
- Personality Test (DISC) - better interaction with your students
- Pilots Tips of the Week.
- Planning, cross country.
- POHs (pilot operating handbooks, aircraft manuals)
- Proficiency: Returning to Flight.
- Regulations (see FAR) above
- Resource Management : CRM / SRM
- Restaurants at Airports.
- Risk Management.
- Requirements: PPC / Instrument / Commercial / (also pages 3-5 of kneeboard).
- RNP (required navigation performance) (Instruments | Approaches)
- Rules of Thumb (ROT) and mental math.
- Runway Safety Simulator.
- Rusty Pilots.
- Safety.
- SAFOs - Safety Alerts for Operators
- Secret of Flight (video series), fantastic series (Video 1)
- Seminars and Webinars - Search FAA
- SFRA / FRZ - see Airports.
- SIGMETs and AIRMETs - see Weather
- Simulators.
- Situational Awareness.
- Slips.
- Springs Aviation and how to get there
- SRM (single-pilot resource management).
- Stalls.
- Steep turns.
- Takeoff / Landing.
- Task Management.
- Testing / Tests.
- FAA Testing (available at Springs Aviation)
- Training.
- Transitioning Aircraft (AOPA video)
- Truisms | Concepts | Mentality
- Turbulence (in weather)
- Turns / Turn Performance.
- Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT),
- V Speeds (Aerodynamics)
- VFR into VMC - Article by AOPA,
- Vmc Demo - see Multiengine,
- VOR.
- Weather (WX)
- Webinars and Seminars - Search FAA
- Weight and Balance.
- Written tests.
- Flying is great - improve every flight -
Friday, October 23, 2020
Acrobatic Training
Acrobatic flight is one of the most exhilarating things you can do. Beyond that, it helps you understand flight characteristics and realize that you can without question recover from a spin.
My syllabus:
- Stalls
- Chandelles
- Wingovers
- Aileron rolls
- Loops
- Loop plus rolls
- Cloverleafs
- Cuban eights
- Immelmanns and
- Spins!!!
I am still building my syllabus, but what's listed above will be the baseline. You can most certainly expect to spin. The spin is the biggest monkey on the private pilot's back. I will show you that 1) it is not only predicable, but 2) completely recoverable.
Never let spins control you. You control them.
- Lineage of Champs: Aeronca 1944, Champion Aircraft 1954, Bellanca 1970, ACA 1989
- FIG -
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Aerodynamics
Also see:
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Aerodynamics:
- Maneuvers
- Multiengine.
- Quiz your knowledge:
- Angle of attack is... 6Qs
- As airspeed increases... 5Qs
- If you float... 6Qs
- These 6 aerodynamic designs are for... 6Qs
- When an airfoil increases... 5Qs
- Which design feature helps... 5Qs
- Which of the following is NOT, in straight and level... 6Qs
- Which of the following is NOT, best rate... 7Qs
- Which phase of spin... 6Qs
- Wing tip vortices are associated... 6Qs
- You take off in your Cessna... 6Qs
- You're taking off... 6Qs
Airspeed
- The 4 types of airspeed, and what each one means for you.
- IAS and TAS - what's the difference? (vid)
- Supersonic flight - 8 things you never knew.
- Which airspeed? (AvWeb)
Angle of Attack
- Angle of attack for dummies. (Air Facts)
Drag:
- How interference drag affects your plane's performance.
Left-turning Tendencies:
- Left-turning tendencies explained: why your plane pulls left during takeoff.
Stalls:
V-Speeds
- FIG -
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Airports / Runways / Facilities
Airports
- 10 things you should do before flying into an unfamiliar airport.
- Best safety practices (FAA).
- From the Flight Deck (FAA video series with wrong airport/surface landings).
- Non-towered Airports
- Communications. (in ATC and Comm)
- Operations (video).
- NOTAMs
- 7 Types:
- NOTAM (D); FDC NOTAM; Pointer NOTAM; SAA NOTAM; (U) NOTAM; (O) NOTAM; Military NOTAM
- DOD Search
- Restaurants at Airports
- AOPA: Destination Search (you can select "restaurant on airfield")
- AOPA: Best Airport Restaurants Named
- AOPA: best-of-best $100 hamburgers
- Fly 2 Lunch
- SFRA / FRZ
- Kneeboards: version 1 and version 2
- Training online at FAASafety
Runways
- PAPIs - how they work.
- Quiz: Do you know these seven common airport markings?
- FIG -
Airspace
In general:
- 5 unusual airspace areas you should know for your checkride.
- 6 tips to help you fly through complex airspace.
- Airspace review. (AvWeb)
- AOPA tutorial.
- General review.
- Teaching/learning technique from CFItoCFI. (p 19-22)
- Also see Sectionals in Planning.
- ABCs of US Airspace or what I use - My Morsels.
- Airspace memory aid. (vid)
- Class B
- Entry requirements.
- Flying below Class B: Does ATC instruction trump regulations?
- Weather minimums. Vid 1, Vid 2.
- Class C
- Approaching while on flight following.
- Departing
- Dimensions - Vid 1, Vid 2, Vid 3.
- Entry requirements. (vid)
- Who do I call to enter? (vid)
- Class D
- Communications:
- Departing a Class D, Ground control, taxi instructions, towered airport.
- Weather minimums. Vid 13, Vid 97.
- Weather minimums to depart. Vid 115.
- What happens when a Class D tower is closed?
- Class E
- Boarders. (vid)
- Explained.
- How they're marked on VFR sectional charts. (vid)
- Why is it controlled? Vid 1, Vid 2.
- Starting at 700' AGL. (vid) or at 1200' AGL. (vid)
- To the surface.
- Class G
- Airports without 700' transition above.
- Explained.
- Quizzes:
- Where is it located? Vid 1, Vid 2.
Controlled Airspace:
- Explained. (vid)
Incursions
MOA (Military Operating Area)- Also on SUA Website.
- Video with basics.
- Also on SUA Website.
- Video with basics.
Special use, "MCPRAWN" (in Acronyms)
Speeds
- 250 knots below 10K' - why.
Quizzes
- As a non-instrument rated private pilot...
- Class A airspace starts at...
- What is a MOA... (6Qs)
- What is one of the primary differences between... (6Qs)
- What's the max speed you can fly here... (5Qs)
- You're overflying Northwest Florida... (5Qs)
Weather:
- VFR Minimums:
- Cloud clearances in one chart or one picture.
- FAA airspace for VFR flight. (video)
- VFR weather minimums in controlled airspace.
- Why are there mandatory cloud clearance requirements?
- FIG -
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