The third edition of the guide “aligns with the knowledge topics, risk management, and skill task,s including scenario-based training elements in the Private Pilot for Helicopter Airman Certification Standards (FAA-S-ACS-15),” according to ASA officials.
Flight Training
Short field landing during checkride goes awry
The student pilot’s failure to maintain a proper descent rate during the short field landing.
Multi-Engine Oral Exam Guide updated
New and expanded content in the ninth edition of the guide includes information on multi-engine operations, aerodynamics, inoperative engine procedures, aircraft systems, and maneuvers. It also includes additional checklists, briefing guidelines, and resources for understanding aircraft performance, limitations, and minimum equipment lists, all designed to prepare pilots for the FAA Multi-Engine Land check ride.
New free courses released by King Schools
King Schools has released two new free courses: Drone Part 107 Regulations and Private Pilot Ground Reference Maneuvers, as well as a new YouTube playlist, “How To Become a Pilot.”
An Alabama Champion
ABC 33/40, an Alabama-based ABC television affiliate, recently posted a news story featuring Major Anthony Tisdale, an Air Force pilot who leads a summer camp for kids through Operation Aviation Foundation. The segment calls Tisdale “An Alabama Champion,” while he tells the news station that he really wishes a camp like this had been available when he was learning to fly.
Aspiring pilots get boost from LogTen Pilot Logbook
Flight Schedule Pro’s LogTen Pilot Logbook, a digital pilot logbook provider for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac, is a new partner with Breaking Down Barriers.
King Schools refreshes Cessna pilot course
More than 130 new instructional videos have been added to the Cessna Sport/Private Pilot Course.
75 years of the T-28
Three-quarters of a century ago, in September 1949, the North American Aviation XT-28 chugged into the sky, launching a production run of nearly 1,950 of the big single-engine, tricycle-gear trainers that became air show favorites after their military careers were over.
A flight review five years in the making
Regardless of what life throws at me tomorrow, today I’m current.