On Centerline

By Sam Tarrel, The Northwest AeronautEducation Self-Improvement Leisure Aviation

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April 12, 2025 5 Tips for Instrument Students
Today we are discussing 5 tips to make you a better instrument pilot and to make your instrument training easier and more effective!
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
20 min
March 15, 2025 Bad Regulations!
It's no secret that sometimes the FAA just gets things WRONG. Sometimes they just make things confusing. Either way, these errors and ambiguities lead to many pilots mis-interpreting certain rules and requiring lawyers to clarify the FAA's position and intentions through letters of interpretation. Today we discuss two such issues with some very prominent regulations.
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
17 min
March 01, 2025 Everything you wanted to know about HOLDS! (And more that you didn't.)
Holds can often be the most frustrating parts to students in instrument training. They have a certain complexity that tends to confuse and complicate when combined with all the other skills and items you need to learn in instrument training. However, the reality is they are much easier than most people initially realize, so today we are going to break down holds and holding entries from the technical side all the way to the practical side of things.
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
48 min
February 15, 2025 The Approaches Your CFI-I Never Taught You
Even though it's the most widely used approach in the professional flying world, the visual approach is largely overlooked in instrument training. In addition, the contact approach is so seldomly used at all, that most instructors fail to even mention it throughout a students' training. We talk about BOTH today!
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
19 min
February 08, 2025 How to fly on Instruments!
With everything there is to learn in instrument flight training, one of the most difficult things can be learning how to simply control the aircraft! Today we discuss instrument attitude flying and the techniques and methods such as control performance and primary and support that can be utilized to help make control of the aircraft in the instrument environment just as easy as it is in the visual environment!
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
40 min
January 04, 2025 Is Your CFI Failing You?
There are many ways I see subpar service and quality of training from CFIs, but today we are talking about the abuse I constantly see in one specific area of the experience requirements for the commercial pilot certificate. We will talk about the short-comings that are all too common with these training activities as well as the solutions I have personally developed for my own students.
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
28 min
December 28, 2024 Pass your IFR Oral Exam - ACS Breakdown Part 6 - ATC Clearances
Talking with ATC as a student pilot is often one of the most challenging things people face in flight training. Unfortunately it tends to just get more complicated as you get into instrument training, but there are a few key things every pilot can do to make this task a lot easier. Join us today as we discuss ATC clearances and communications.
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
50 min
December 14, 2024 Pass your IFR Oral Exam - ACS Breakdown Part 5 - Systems PART 2
Today we are continuing with systems related to IFR flight. In today's episode we specifically discuss navigation systems, as well as airworthiness for IFR flight.
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
38 min
December 07, 2024 Pass your IFR Oral Exam - ACS Breakdown Part 4 - Systems
Today we are diving into systems related to IFR flight. In today's episode we specifically discuss Anti-icing and De-icing systems, as well as Autopilot.
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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
15 min
November 30, 2024 Pass your IFR Oral Exam - ACS Breakdown Part 3 - Cross-Country Planning
I will start off by saying there is SO MUCH to go over in this portion of the Instrument ACS that I can't possibly fit it all into this one podcast episode. So if there is anything specific YOU want me to cover in a future podcast, please leave a comment and let me know what you want to hear more about! But until then, we continue with our overview of the ACS breakdown with IFR cross country flight planning!

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Music - Epidemic Sound: Go Higher - FLYIN
Vegas - Onda Norte
58 min

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