FIG Aviation

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Welcome to FIG Aviation

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

Monday, November 30, 2020

Latest Updates

20240422: AOA April. See the focus items.
20240422: New commercial check debrief. April 2024 (DPE Dunshee)
20240418: NASA Callback, April 2024.
20240417: Tip of the Week: Uses for a simulator. See all Tips.
20240415: Energy Management. (FAASTeam)
20240304: FAA Safety Brief Mar/Apr.
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.
Aerodynamics.
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
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
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.
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.
Slips.
Springs Aviation and how to get there
SRM (single-pilot resource management).
Stalls.
Steep turns.
Takeoff / Landing.
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.