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...
Category: Flying Technique
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...
How to Calculate Density Altitude and What Is It?
You may have heard about Density Altitude, or vaguely remember working it out as part of your pilot training or exams, but haven’t heard much about it since. What is Density Altitude? Density...
How to Fly Like a Professional Pilot
For a great number of general aviation pilots, flying is for fun and is a leisure time activity with no intention of taking it any further. However, when sharing the airspace and runways with other...
Pre-Flight Checks – What to Look For – Engine
In this series about performing your pre-flight checks properly, we started by looking at the external checks of the airframe. You can read that post here. In this second post we’ll still be outside,...
Pre-Flight Checks – What to Look For – Airframe
In this series of posts we’ll look at the important task of checking your aircraft before flight. You’ll have been taught to do this from day one of your training. By the time you’ve...
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