The Best Soft Field Landings
With summer almost here, many small airfields will be coming alive with the buzz of light aircraft visiting much more regularly. If you’re not usually based at an airfield with a grass strip, but...
Category: Flying Technique
The Most Common Take-off Mistakes Pilots Make
How do you find your take-offs? Is it something you mastered straight away, or do you consider it the necessary evil you must endure in order to endure flying. It’s common to assume that...
How to Fly Your First Solo Flight
That time has come. Your private pilot training has been going well, you’ve mastered the controls, feel comfortable racing around the circuit pattern, and your landings can now be described as passably safe. Then,...
6 Tips – How to Add Finesse and Improve Your Landings
No matter how long you’ve been flying, or even if you’re still training, there’s a certain knack to landing which seems to be the holy grail for pilots. It can be just as common...
What to Do if You Get Lost While Flying
Getting lost while flying is something pilots dread, and we’ve probably all experienced it at some point – even in our own familiar flying area. It can be particularly common when flying to new...
Tips on Flying into Uncontrolled Airports
If you’re like me, you learned to fly at a larger, controlled airport with a good air traffic control service to safely direct aircraft landing, departing and flying within radar coverage. Therefore flying into...
5 Less Common ATC Phrases and Their Meanings
Learning what is effectively another language and its syntax is hard enough when you’re also learning to fly and navigate a plane. So when you hear the occasional phrases and instructions from ATC which...
7 Reasons You Should Fly Some Circuit Patterns
Flying circuits (or patterns if you in the USA) is something you probably did a lot of during your pilot training. It teaches you everything you need to know about the process of flying...
5 Tips on Flying With a Tailwind
One of the basic principles of flying from the earliest days of your training is the effects of wind over your aircraft’s wings. As a result, you plan your takeoffs and landings wherever possible...
List of Transponder Codes
With most aircraft fitted with a transponder box, here’s a list of useful ‘squawk’ transponder codes for use in certain situations. 1200 – Standard VFR code used in North America. 7000 – Standard...
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