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Sporty's Recreational Pilot Course

...with Richard L. Collins

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Sporty's Recreational Pilot Course - 1: Getting Started

Examines each segment of the flight training process and helps ensure you receive the most for your aviation training dollar. Even more importantly, it takes the anxiety out of learning to fly, allowing you to make intelligent, informed decisions about your aviation education and future.

(about 148 minutes)

Sporty's Recreational Pilot Course - 2: Your First Few Hours

Everything you need to know to start on your first few lessons! Covers basic aerodynamics (lift, weight, thrust and drag), aircraft flight controls, aircraft systems (engine, electrical, fuel), preflight inspection, starting the engine, taxiing, takeoff, basic flight maneuvers and traffic patterns.

(about 136 minutes)

Sporty's Recreational Pilot Course - 3: Practicing Landings

Make your time spent in the landing pattern more productive. Introduces ground reference maneuvers, engine operation, angle-of-attack, p-factor, slipstream, gyroscopic precession, slow flight, stalls, normal and no-flap landings, crosswind takeoffs, slips, go-arounds and wake turbulence avoidance.

(about 102 minutes)

Sporty's Recreational Pilot Course - 4: Your First Solo

Be prepared for an aviation milestone -- your first flight without your instructor! Covers pre-solo maneuvers, steep turns, emergency procedures, basic weather (fog, thunderstorms, forecasts, reports and live weather briefings from FSS), the pitot-static system, stability and control, solo FARs and aeromedical factors.

(about 141 minutes)

Sporty's Recreational Pilot Course - 5: Your Recreational Pilot Test

Everything you need to know to complete your training and take your flight test. Covers weather, airspace, maximum performance takeoffs and landings, weight and balance-even a "sneak preview" of computerized testing, your oral exam and your checkride.

(about 213 minutes)

This video was added to our catalog on September 20, 2006 in Aircraft Piloting.

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