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What are you going to do after you get a PPL?
Summer is a busy time of year not just for flight training but also for flight training enquiries.
Category: Flight training
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How to avoid three big time-sucks
Why does primary flight training sometimes take longer than it should? In this post I identify three traps that students fall into, each one of which sucks time and energy out of the training process, making progress take longer and cost more than it should. And these are three things under the control of you, the student, so the good news is they are all in your hands to avoid, or fix.
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Flying lessons as a gift
It’s holiday season, and I’m getting a lot of enquiries from people who want to purchase an introductory flying lesson for a friend or loved-one.
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Airworthiness and conformity to type design
Yesterday, my attention was drawn to a recent legal judgement detailing how Transport Canada had wrongly interpreted its own regulations and handing a small but significant victory to aircraft owners and operators. If you’re one, or if you’re planning on taking a flight test any time soon you’ll want to read this.
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The first solo
ANYONE FOLLOWING this blog will have noticed a few “first solo” announcements recently. There seems to be a seasonality about these things – none for a while then three come at once. But that got me to thinking about how you can tell a student is ready for a first solo flight. Here’s a checklist… Read more »
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Design your own licence
I think I understand the motive behind the PP-R, which is a national permit, not internationally recognized, and not valid for flight outside Canada. I think the reasoning goes something like this…
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Why slow flight is like making pizza
A couple of days ago I found a really great recipe in the Guardian Newspaper
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The impossible turn
This post addresses an issue that consumes a lot of discussion time among pilots, whenever they get together: the engine-failure-after-takeoff (EFATO) and the decision on whether to try to turn back to the runway, or to try to “land ahead”.
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Fifty reasons to leave your flight school – or, I wish I’d come to you sooner
WITHOUT a doubt there are some fabulous fight instructors and schools in Canada. Unfortunately there are some pretty shabby ones, too.
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A flight instructor’s apology
Suppose you wanted to learn the piano. And your piano teacher said that they were going to teach you one note per lesson: today, we’ll learn middle C. Tomorrow, maybe an E♭; the lesson after that will be on an F♯. And at the end of being taught all 88 notes on the keyboard, you’ll be able to play the piano.
Doesn’t that seem a funny way to learn a musical instrument?