Obtaining a pilot certificate is a license to learn but there are a few things we wish we knew before we passed our checkride. In this episode, we discuss what we wish we were taught during our flight training to fly safer and operate more efficiently.
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Cruise Flight:
What I wish I had learned as a student pilot:
1) Grass strip/soft field ops
2) Self-serve fuel
3) Right traffic pattern
4) Class B clearance
5) Landing with a tailwind
6) Courtesy car
7) Aircraft handling near max gross weight
8) Spin training
9) Real-life diversion
10) Visit a control tower
11) Operating out of an FBO
12) Marshaling Signals
13) non-towered airfield
After Landing Checklist:
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Tom – Air Text – https://goairtext.com
Carl – https://www.twahotel.com/
Bill – https://www.aerographics.com/
Leslie – Wild Wonder: What Nature Teaches Us About Slowing Down and Living Well by Stephen Proctor
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James – Bakers School of Aeronautics
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