Flying New Guy

Jason is seven hours into his Private Pilot training, and this is the debrief from the flights where it got real. Slow flight, power off and power on stalls, a turning stall, and steep turns.

Tom covers what to fix and why, including the spin recovery every pilot should be able to recite, the sight picture that cleans up steep turns, and how a CFI spots fatigue in a student before the student feels it.

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Jason has five hours of flight time. In this video, CFI Tom grades his taxiing, radio calls, and his first shot at all three ground reference maneuvers.

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Jason spent months training in a flight simulator. Today, he flies a real airplane for the first time.

CFI Tom takes Jason through his entire first lesson in the Diamond DA40: taxiing with differential braking, the before-takeoff checklist, a constant speed prop runup, his first takeoff, straight and level flight, turns, climbs, and descents, then a go-around demo and the first landing. The debrief verdict? He already flies like a 10-hour pilot.

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Jason completed an entire private pilot maneuver curriculum in a full-motion VR simulator before ever setting foot in an airplane. In this episode, he shares what worked, what surprised him, and whether sim-first training can make your flight training cheaper and faster. Next up: the real airplane - subscribe so you don't miss it.

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In this episode, Jason takes on his first full VFR cross-country plan, Prescott to Winslow in the Diamond, and Greg puts him through the kind of grilling you'd get from a checkride examiner.

Seven hours of planning broken down step by step!

We cover the regs, fuel requirements, weather sources, route selection, checkpoint picking, performance math, true course versus magnetic course, wind correction angles, top of descent timing, and how to stay ahead of the airplane in the cockpit.

Welcome to part two of our episode covering navigation! Today, Greg and Jason will discuss VORs, GPS, HSI vs. CDI, filing flight plans, and much more!

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Today, we're going to dive into navigation, including everything you need to know, including time zones, winds, ground navigation, VFR regulations, magnetic deviation/variation, and much more!

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For the past few months, Jason’s been working hard toward his private pilot certificate. And he just reached his first big milestone - the FAA written test.

To talk about what it was like - and how he got ready for the big day - Jason’s here with us in the studio.

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On today’s episode, we’ll break down VFR weather minimums, show you how to identify each class of airspace on your sectional, and decode the most important chart symbols.

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Today, we’re going to be talking about something that every pilot deals with on every single flight: airport operations.