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Flight Planning

The Importance of Accurate Flight Planning
10 Feb 2020

The Importance of Accurate Flight Planning

by Ryan | posted in: Aircraft Performance, Flight Planning, VFR charts | 0

The importance of accurate pre-flight planning cannot be overstated. How important is this task beyond the private pilot practical test? Let’s take a look at the pilotage and dead reckoning task and consider why it’s evaluated.

aeronautical decision making, Flight Planning
Untangling the Knots
27 Sep 2019

Untangling the Knots

by Ryan | posted in: Aircraft Performance, Checkride tips, Flight Planning | 0

TAS, IAS, CAS? Aircraft performance? AFM? Walk through them from a checkride perspective.

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