Flying
The Traffic Pattern
In this Flight Instructor lesson, you're going to
learn about what is known in the USA as a traffic
pattern and in Australia as a circuit. In its
simplest sense the traffic pattern (circuit) is a
rectangular flight path around the airport,
usually to the left of the runway
(counter-clockwise), with the longer legs flown
parallel of runway heading to 1000 ft AGL.
By: Robert Ferraro
The
ADF Lesson
The ADF or Automatic Direction Finder is
a navigation instrument that is widely used by
pilots in typical light aircraft. In general,
pilots are introduced to the ADF, its function
and its use when they begin their cross country
navigation training. As the pilot progresses in
his flying ratings, he becomes more familiar with
the valuable functionality this instrument
provides in both VFR and Instrument Flight Rules
flying.
By:
Robert Ferraro
Introdcution
to the ILS
The Instrument Landing System or (ILS) is
a precision guidance system that a pilot uses to
perform a precision approach and landing on a
runway in Instrument Conditions (IMC). Other
instruments such as the VOR and NDB provide
guidance to a runway from within cloud but
neither of those instruments provide the
precision of the ILS.
By:
Robert Ferraro
Light
Aircraft Landings
If the landings youíve been performing
so far in Microsoft Flight Simulator are
self-taught then I suggest that you forget
everything that youíve taught yourself. Chances
are that youíre not doing it correctly.
By:
Robert Ferraro
First
Flight In the 182S
The control response, low-speed handling,
sound effects and complete cockpit now provide an
ideal training tool for the would-be pilot. It is
this newfound level of realism that has sparked
the idea of revisiting the syllabus for basic
flying training that we had previously glossed
over due to the inability to observe, in
sufficient detail, some of the finer aerodynamic
effects.
By:
Robert Ferraro
Partial
Instrument Failure
Take-off
and climb to around 3,000 feet on runway heading.
When you have established the aircraft in cruise,
power set and trimmed, perform the following
actions to fail the Gyro/Suction system....
By: Robert Ferraro
