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Sporty's Private Pilot Course

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Sporty's Private 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 Private 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 Private 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 Private 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 Private Pilot Course - 5: Your Dual Cross Countries

You're truly on your own now. Covers Air Traffic Control (ATIS, tower, approach control, transponders), magnetic compass errors, aircraft performance charts, maximum performance takeoffs and landings, clouds, wind shear, icing, basic IFR flying and FARs.

(about 179 minutes)

Sporty's Private Pilot Course - 6: Your Solo Cross Countries

Now that you have a few hours of solo time under your belt, it's time to leave your local airport. Presents night flying, reading and interpreting aeronautical charts, flight planning, VOR and ADF navigation, air masses and fronts, the cross-country flight and airspace.

(about 179 minutes)

Sporty's Private Pilot Course - 7: Your Private Pilot Test

A few more flights with your instructor, one or two solo flights and you'll soon be taking your FAA checkride! Covers FARs, weight and balance, computerized testing, the written and oral tests, a "sneak preview" of your flight test, night cross-countries and an introduction to high performance aircraft.

(about 179 minutes)

This video was added to our catalog on September 21, 2006 in Aircraft Piloting.

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