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Introduction

  • Hello From Airfreddy
  • Learning to Fly What it Will Cost
  • Maintaining Your Certificate
  • Foreign Students TSA

Getting Started

  • The Most Important First Step
  • Finding a Flight School
  • Part 61 Flight Schools
  • Flying Clubs
  • Freelance Instructors
  • Owning Your Own Aircraft
  • Part 141 Flight Schools
  • Training Aircraft
  • Intro Flights
  • Finding a Flight Instructor
  • Story #1: Airfreddy's Interview
  • Story #2: Student Instructor Happy Hours
  • Changing Flight Instructors
  • Story #3: Not Qualified to Sign Off A Student
  • Your Written Test

Pre Solo Training Part 1

  • Preflight
  • Engine Startup
  • Airport Diagrams
  • Radio Procedures
  • Taxiing
  • The Runnup – Before Takeoff Check
  • Story #4: The Day I Met My Buddy
  • HALT CHECK / Your First Takeoff
  • Your First Couple of Flights
  • Trimming the Airplane
  • Attitude Flying
  • Practice Area Communications
  • High Altitude Maneuvers
  • Minimum Controllable Airspeed
  • Standard High Altitude Maneuvers
  • Stalls
  • Foreward Slips
  • Ground Reference Maneuvers
  • Landings
  • Story #5: The Day I learned Crosswind Landings

Pre Solo Training Part 2

  • Go Arounds
  • Frustrated With Landings
  • Power Off Approaches
  • Finding Airports
  • Non Towered AIrports
  • Dangerous Situation Awareness
  • Emergency Procedures
  • Story #6: New Engine Not To Worry
  • Engine Failures In The Traffic Pattern
  • Story #7: Runway ITIS
  • Story #8: Bad Day In The Runup Area
  • Fires
  • Story #9: My Worst Day As A Flight School Owner
  • ATC Light Signals
  • Should I Do Spin Training
  • Story #10: Fred I Need Some Spin Training
  • Story #11: I Can Do Aileron Rolls, Can You
  • Story # 12: Bad Weather on a Second Solo
  • Story # 13: Fred I Didn't Need The Airspeed Indicator
  • Pre Solo

Post Solo Training

  • Soft Field Takeoffs and Landings
  • Short Field Takeoffs And Landings
  • Story #14: Engine Failure On A Flight Test
  • Simulated Instrument Training
  • Unusual Attitude Recoveries
  • Cross Country Flight
  • VOR Tracking
  • Lost Procedures
  • Story # 15: From I Can't To I Am An Ace
  • Night Flying
  • Story # 16: Almost Upside Down At Night

Flight Test

  • Story # 17: Late For The Flight Test
  • Story # 18: The Day She Passsed Her Flight Test