Learn to Fly Basics Course Day 8 Pre Solo Flight Training Maneuvers
This part of your training is the most work getting used to flying the plane and breaking the habits you all have of driving a car.
Your pre-solo flight training includes a few areas, I have listed them below:
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In order for you to go up in the airplane solo by yourself, you will have
to have logged instruction from an authorized instructor in these areas.
1: Four Fundamentals of Flight: This is the very basics of flying. Climbs,
Turns, Descents and Straight and Level Flight. You should be taught these
maneuvers outside the airplane. You don't want to get in the habit of
looking inside the airplane right off the bat.
2: High Altitude Maneuvers: The high altitude maneuvers are maneuvers
designed for you to understand how the aircraft reacts in different flight
configurations. These maneuvers are: Steep Turns, Minimum Controllable
Airspeed, Power on Stalls, Power off Stalls and Forward Slips. In my
syllabus I ad two more maneuvers for hand eye coordination they are Flat
Turns and Dutch Rolls.
3: Ground Reference Maneuvers: The Ground Reference maneuvers are
maneuvers to get you used to controlling the airplane in relation to the
ground. All of these maneuvers are practiced at an altitude of 500 - 1000
feet above ground level. The maneuvers you will have to practice are:
Turns around a point, S-turns on a road and Rectangular courses.
4: Landings: This is the fun part and for most students the most
frustrating part of their Private Pilot Certificate. Some students will
pick this up in a few flights and others will need more practice.
5: Emergency Procedures: This part of your training, you go over what to
do when something goes wrong. In most cases the planes just keep running
and there are usually no problems but every once in a while something will
happen. This part of your training is very important. You want to make
sure you know exactly what you are going to do if something happens.
6:Your First Solo: After you have gone thru all of the above training it
is that time of your training when you will finally get to go up all by
yourself. In most cases this first solo flight will be at your local
airport and you will go do three takeoffs and landings all by yourself.
Tomorrows Installment is Your Post Solo Maneuvers
Hope To See You In the Sky
Airfreddy
Airfreddy's Guide on Learning To Fly
Private Pilot License Basics Day 9