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Flight Training Made Simple / Aviation tips, articles and things to help you learn!Student Pilot Certificate and FAA Medical
Have you gotten your FAA Medical or Student Pilot Certificate yet? UPDATE: Since this post and video were published, the FAA separated the student pilot certificate and the medical certificate. The video below is the process you will go through to get your medical...
Flying near a power plant
Hey Guys! I thought you would enjoy this picture. It's not often you see a power plant from the air so close. Being vectored for final for an ILS approach, we got an awesome, close up view of the power plant. I actually got vectors through the steam once and I have to...
Bad Aeronautical Decision Making
This one hits close to home. This happened just a few miles from my home airport. I had just landed before it happened and one of the other instructors where I teach actually heard some of the conversation. This is a video from AOPA's site. It's very sad. Please learn...
How to fly into a towered airport
For you guys that are uncomfortable flying into control towered airport, here's a video for you. Hopefully you will feel a little more at ease after watching this when you realize that there really isn't much to flying to a towered airport. Now don't laugh because...
Student Pilot Accidentally Spins Plane
Here's another post from someone who was still a student pilot when this happened. I don't know how he kept calm enough to make it through this, but he did a great job! For the record, the Joe he references in his story is not me. Article written by Dave...
Runway Incursion almost turned Deadly
Here's a situation that could have been much worse! This is another story that I thought you guys would enjoy and hopefully learn from. It was submitted by someone who was making all his calls, and doing the right things, but it wasn't good enough because the...
In Flight Fire (almost)
Around 20 years ago I was on a cross country flight with a pilot friend. We were in a rented 172 RG from Illinois on our way to North Carolina or Virginia ( I don't remember which). We had been this way a couple of times before. I had friends there and he had family...
Flight Training
Hey guys! You have to let me know what you want to learn about. The more feedback you can give me the more I can write for you. I've had a lot going on lately and it's making it difficult to come up with flight training tips for you! Comment below and let me know...