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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Focus Items (by month)

These are focus items by month. Perfect for a periodic focus throughout the year.

Jumpstart January ~~~ No Float February

Mixture March ~~~ AOA April

MAYDAY May ~~~ No-Jump June

No-Jet July ~~~ Aimpoint August

Slipping September ~~~ TBD

No-Nose November ~~~ DECEL December

- FIG -

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Maneuvers / Execution / Techniques

Articles:

3 common pilot mistakes to avoid (level off, 45 entry, grip). (FP vid).
How to prevent over controlling your plane.
Tips & tricks from readers (GA News).

Braking: - see Landing (separate page).

Climbs / Descents:

5 easy ways to increase drag quickly.
Need to lose altitude? 5 things you can do to descend quickly.
Cruise climb speed, what is it and when should you use it?
When to descend on a long straight-in final. (Vid 49).

Coordination / Rudder / Yaw:

Emergencies: separate page.

Energy Management: From AFH Chapter 4 - Energy management can be defined as the process of planning, monitoring, and controlling altitude and airspeed targets in relation to the airplane’s energy state in order to:

Attain / maintain desired vertical flightpath-airspeed profiles.
Detect, correct, and prevent unintentional altitude-airspeed deviations from desired energy state.
Prevent irreversible deceleration and/or sink rate that results in a crash.

Energy Errors (AvWeb)
Energy Management. (FAASTeam)
Energy Management - National FAA Safety Team. Part 1 and 2.
Pitch and Power: Energy management is key to mastery of flight.
Power and Pitch (Aviation Safety).
Also check Aerodynamics

Go Around(s):

8 times you should go-around during landing.

NOTE: The first item is "bad bounce" - not "bounce".

9 times you should go-around.
Avoiding traffic during a go-around. (Vid 184).
Botched go around.
Go-around technique. (Vid 96).
How to fly a go-around.
The aircraft will always go UP and LEFT (assuming a single engine piston aircraft)
The 'binary' go-around. Have you been instructed, or is it your own notion, that a bounced landing should be followed by a go-around? If so, be careful of any 'binary' flying. Physics are binary but how we handle things is usually not. Here is a video of a bounce into a go around. The plane could have easily landed from the bounce and if you're going to go around, do it correctly. The video might be hard for some to watch.
Also see Landing / My Morsals / Pilot Tips of the Week.

Ground Ops:

Brief(s) - see Briefs / Debriefs.
Holding short: How I do it at KFLY (or anywhere).
Leaning: see Engines / Powerplants.
Maintenance (MX) - see Systems.
Parking (for runup): how I do it at KFLY.
Preflight:

5 fall preflight items to watch out for.
5 things to look for when you sump your fuel.

“COWS” (color, odor, water, sediment). Odor can help if the entire sample is water.

9 things that can be easily overlooked during preflight.
Don't forget to check these 6 small parts on every preflight.
Knowledge Check/Quizzes:

You're checking the maintenance logbook... 5Qs.

Renting an airplane? 8 things you should always check.

Runup (parking): how I do it at KFLY.
Taxiing:

5 common mistakes pilots make.
8 reasons you should use the 'airport moving map' during your next taxi.
How far should you taxi behind a jet?
Taxi at large airports like a pro. (Flying Mag).
Tips to handle icy runways and taxiways.

Safety related.
Why you shouldn't fly with a dirty windshield.

Ground Reference Maneuvers:

Chandelle:

How to fly one. (Sporty's)
Learn the chandelle maneuver. (Thrust Flight)

Eights on Pylons:

How to fly 8s on Ps. (Thrust Flight).

Rectangle course. (King).

This is one way to do it. I make the rectangle around a segment of road (just like a runway), not around four roads.

Turns around a point...

4 tips to clean up your turns around a point.

What’s the point of ground reference maneuvers?
Why ground reference maneuvers matter. Fundamentals Series (MzA).

Landing: (separate page)

Maneuver Guides:

C172 (Rick Aviation, 2018)
C172 (EKU Aviation, 2020)
C172 S/R (Thrust Flight, 2021)
Also see Ground Reference Maneuvers above.

Night Flight/Flying:

5 tips for better night landings.
7 ways to find an airport hidden by nighttime darkness.
8 of the most common night flying hazards.
9 ways to avoid the hazards of night flight.
22 tips you need to know for flying at night.
Quizzes / Knowledge check:

You're doing 3 night takeoffs and landings... 6Qs.

The art of night flight. (FAA Safety).
When can you log night flight and night landings?
See also Illusions in Human Factors.

Passengers:

9 ways to make nervous passengers more comfortable.

Rudder / Yaw / Coordination: see Coordination above.

Slips:

Forward slip - how to correct a high final.
Real pilots know how to slip.
Slipping with full flaps.
Slips and Skids. (NAFI).
Stalling in a forward slip. (Vid 53, Vid 153).
What happens if you stall in a forward slip? (Vid 53).

Spins: go to Upset Prevention & Recovery Training.

Stalls: +

4 ways to get better at stall recoveries.
Aircraft stalling: 3 basic kinds.
Avoiding power-on stalls. (ASI vid).
Avoiding traffic pattern stalls. (ASI vid).
Cross-controlled stalls: How to prevent them.
Decelerated stalls - do they exist? (GA News)
Elevator trim stalls:

How to prevent it from happening to you.

Fear of / reluctance to:

Afraid of stalls? Try a falling leaf.
Fear of stalling. (MzeroA vid).

Power-on stalls

Power on stalls can happen where you least expect them.
Practicing them.
Video from Sporty's.

Quizzes on stalls:

Any point beyond _____ is where... 6Qs.
As an aircraft's weight increases... 7Qs.
Assuming your aircraft's weight... 6Qs.
What happens when you increase... 5Qs.

Recovery: 6 common mistakes made by pilots.
Stall horn fallacy of stall prevention.
Stalling with the nose pointed down. (Machado vid)
Stall/Spin classic facts and myths. (1982 vid).
Weight, how does it affect stall speed? (Vid 163).
Also see My Morsels.

Steep Spirals:

Ultimate tutorial on steep spirals. (Thrust Flight vid).

Steep Turns:

Takeoff: +

6 common takeoff mistakes, and how to avoid them.
10 tips for safer takeoffs and landings. (FAA)
Aborted / Rejected Takeoff:

8 times you should reject a takeoff.

#2 is a misspeak – half of planned TO distance is better.
#9 (not in the list) – anytime you think you should.

Brief (see Briefs).
Can you take off with another plane on the runway?
Crosswind takeoffs:

How to handle crosswinds during takeoff. (Sporty's vid)
How to make a perfect crosswind takeoff.
Prep for private pilot exam. (vid).
Also see Landing.

Go around(s) - see above
Impossible turn.
Improbable turn. (YouTube)
Rejected Takeoffs:

How to safely stop during a rejected takeoff.

Rotation:

Questions from the Cockpit: Rotate what, exactly?

Runway centerline:

Should you fly runway heading or runway centerline on takeoff?

Short/soft field takeoffs:

Achieving short field success. (FAA).
Clearing the 50’ obstacle. (Backcountry182).
How to fly the perfect short field takeoff and climb. (FTC).
How to fly a perfect soft field approach and landing. (FTC).
How to make a good one (short field).
See My Morsels on short/soft fields.

Takeoff and landing refresher. (Wally Moran)
Techniques for better takeoffs. (video)
Wake turbulence:

How to avoid wake turbulence during takeoff and landing.
Tips to avoid wake turbulence. Vid 21, Vid 62, Vid 162 or Vid 211.

See also Takeoff Briefing, Performance and Pilot Tips of the Week.

Traffic Patterns:

6 ways to avoid irritating other pilots on your next flight.
8 tips to make a textbook traffic pattern every time.
Aircraft in front of you isn't turning base. What should you do? (Vid 6).
Back to basics in the traffic pattern. (NAFI).
Base to final turn. (NAFI).
C172, how I execute patterns in a Skyhawk.

How I tweak it for 'localisms' at KFLY.

Commit to Pattern Precision (FAA).
Departure leg vs upwind leg. (Vid 9).
Fly a perfect pattern. (Pilot Workshops).
Go arounds (see takeoff section above).
Impossible turn.
Improbable turn. (YouTube).
Knowledge check / quizzes:

The numbers 4 and 22 on the approach... 10 Qs.

Non-Towered Airport:

Upwind vs. departure leg. (vid 66).
When should you reduce power in the pattern? (Vid 212).
See also Pilots Tip of the Week.

Trim: see Systems / Equipment.

Should you trim during landing?
Weber’s Law – how it relates to trimming. (Machado Vid).
When should you use trim?
Also check: Systems / Equipment.

Turn performance (radius):

Optimizing turn performance. (AOPA).

Visual Flight: - how to enforce it

If you have students who stare at the gauges, my first recommendation is to cover them. So as not to keep them from recognizing a 30° bank turn, I let them see it. I cut a suction cup to hide the ADI minus the 30° bank turn. Why? Because I want them to hear, feel, sense their energy state by using their nose position. This is also where the stall warning comes into effect.