newbie.help!(Flight Training Study Resources)
08-23-2010, 06:55 AM
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newbie.help!(Flight Training Study Resources)
First off I'm 25 and recently wanted to get my private, I've been pinching pennies to save up for flight school. I have been around airplanes all my life thanks to my grandfather who was a Captain in 3 different wars and still flying 12 vintage airplanes at age 91. I will be starting flight school the first of the year and just want to build my knowledge before I start. I notice just looking at all the different website everything is abbreviated and I don't understand all of it. Yeah I can ask my granddad but I think it would mean more to him if I just learned it all myself. I was just wondering if anyone know any good web sites that's good for a newbie to learn the basics. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
08-23-2010, 10:36 AM
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re:
www.carlosrootscfi.com
go to the "links" section for links to the different FAA handbooks. The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and the Airplane Flying Manual are pretty good and FREE.
If you require training materials that help you along and are not just facts printed on paper, then I recommend the Jeppesen textbook or the King Schools videos.
go to the "links" section for links to the different FAA handbooks. The Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and the Airplane Flying Manual are pretty good and FREE.
If you require training materials that help you along and are not just facts printed on paper, then I recommend the Jeppesen textbook or the King Schools videos.
08-23-2010, 10:43 AM
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Amazon.com: Everything Explained for the Professional Pilot…
Excellent book, full of abbreviations and their meanings.
Excellent book, full of abbreviations and their meanings.
08-23-2010, 04:28 PM
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Flight Training Online Resources & Tools - Evolutionary Flight Training
Login information (user -- password): Demos0001 -- demopass
or register, it's free.
Once logged in navigate to the private pilot course section and you will notice two tabs. The practical course tab includes 53 lesson outlines (the 'Activity') I wrote, comprising of about 200 pages. You will find various tidbits of information, techniques, and tips to help study throughout that course.
The ground school tab provides some ground school books with links for you to check them out. Choose which one you like best and get started.
Also, the resources section includes information you may find useful. Particularly the aerodynamics and containing sub-tabs which pull in the tutorials given by NASA for various aerodynamic subjects.
More to come soon, but it is a slow process at this point.
Enjoy,
~Brian
Login information (user -- password): Demos0001 -- demopass
or register, it's free.
Once logged in navigate to the private pilot course section and you will notice two tabs. The practical course tab includes 53 lesson outlines (the 'Activity') I wrote, comprising of about 200 pages. You will find various tidbits of information, techniques, and tips to help study throughout that course.
The ground school tab provides some ground school books with links for you to check them out. Choose which one you like best and get started.
Also, the resources section includes information you may find useful. Particularly the aerodynamics and containing sub-tabs which pull in the tutorials given by NASA for various aerodynamic subjects.
More to come soon, but it is a slow process at this point.
Enjoy,
~Brian
08-23-2010, 11:31 PM
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Amazon.com: Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook: The Ultimate Private Pilot Book: Rod Machado: Books
Try This one. Real basic language, Adds humorus(sp) stories along the way to epmhazie certain points. Great read. Long But very beneficial
Try This one. Real basic language, Adds humorus(sp) stories along the way to epmhazie certain points. Great read. Long But very beneficial
08-24-2010, 01:22 AM
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Or:
Aviation Handbooks & Manuals
(Most notably:
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/a...h-8083-27a.pdf
Airplane Flying Handbook
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/a...h-8083-19A.pdf
http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Gu...llDocument.pdf
There's enough information there to build a pretty solid foundation well in advance of any learning; with online resources to ask questions of, you have most of what you need to learn enough to pass your written test.
Most FAA publications are available online as PDFs, and most of those who print and sell aviation books copy a large majority of the information, figures, structure, and sometimes verbatim paragraphs straight out of the FAA pubs.
If you have any other questions in that vein, I'd be happy to try and point you in the right direction.
~Fox
Aviation Handbooks & Manuals
(Most notably:
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/a...h-8083-27a.pdf
Airplane Flying Handbook
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/a...h-8083-19A.pdf
http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Gu...llDocument.pdf
There's enough information there to build a pretty solid foundation well in advance of any learning; with online resources to ask questions of, you have most of what you need to learn enough to pass your written test.
Most FAA publications are available online as PDFs, and most of those who print and sell aviation books copy a large majority of the information, figures, structure, and sometimes verbatim paragraphs straight out of the FAA pubs.
If you have any other questions in that vein, I'd be happy to try and point you in the right direction.
~Fox
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09-30-2010, 12:21 AM
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As for websites check out Welcome to the free online private pilot ground school . The books people are suggesting are great reads: The Private Pilot Handbook - Jeppesen is a standard, Rod Machado's book, The Pilot's Handbook for Aeronautical Knowledge (PHAK), Airplane Flying Handbook (AFH) by the FAA are great and are available online at faa.gov under resources. As with the internet though, I would make sure that any information you get you cross check - but for basic principles those websites I have used myself with my students and I haven't seen many problems in information. Cheers, and best of luck.
09-30-2010, 09:51 AM
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I got the Jeppesen Private Pilot book, I used the King Schools PPL video, and Jeppesen Flite School computerized learning CD.
I'm currently using Sporty's for Instrument Rating and I think I liked King Schools better... Also using Jeppesen Flite School for Instrument.
I would also reccomend the book Say Again Please on radio phraseology.
I'm currently using Sporty's for Instrument Rating and I think I liked King Schools better... Also using Jeppesen Flite School for Instrument.
I would also reccomend the book Say Again Please on radio phraseology.
09-30-2010, 10:20 AM
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Im doing all of my training from the jeppesen series. Good books. This is just one of the many private pilot books you can choose to study from. Buy one of them and start reading.
Jeppesen Private Pilot Manual - MyPilotStore.com
Jeppesen Private Pilot Manual - MyPilotStore.com
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