Jaybird180
Final Approach
I'm looking for good study material for the new Pilot (CD, DVD, book, etc). If possible, please also mention if immediate download format is available.
Thank you
Thank you
The Glider Flying Handbook
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/glider_handbook/
That's what I've been doing since I got my certificate in March. Highly recommend it.
I'm looking for good study material for the new Pilot (CD, DVD, book, etc). If possible, please also mention if immediate download format is available.
Every flight should be to a new unfamiliar airport. Can't get better training than that.
The Glider Flying Handbook
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aircraft/glider_handbook/
That's what I've been doing since I got my certificate in March. Highly recommend it.
... If you go someplace, always try to touch the ground at least 50nm from where you started.
Perhaps I have mixed information about this. On one hand, I'd heard that you needed a certain amount of XC hours for training IAW the above.
On the other hand, I'd heard that any flight where TO and LDG are at different airports qualifies as logged XC time for additional pilot qualifications.
So why the heck are there 2 definitions of XC time????
Perhaps I have mixed information about this. On one hand, I'd heard that you needed a certain amount of XC hours for training IAW the above.
There isn't. There is only one.
FAA defines XC time as trips landing at another airfield greater than 50nm from the takeoff airfield. Allowing for certain exceptions for large military type aircraft that fly great distances out and return and only use one runway, as in my B-52 and B-1 days.
I only log the 50+ NM flights as X/C, just because that's the way I choose to do it. X/C time less than 50 NM has no real "value" (except maybe for the ATP, and by the time you have enough hours for the ATP you'll very likely have enough 50+NM X/C time).
I'm trying to find a new challenge.