Category: Private Pilot
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Cessna 152: Meet Your Airplane
Are you interested in mastering your airplane? This documents is intended as a complement to walking around the aircraft and finding each component on your own Cessna 152. Discuss each elements’ purpose more in depth with your instructor, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. This is Revision number 3
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VFR Formula Cheat Sheet
Download Pilot fomula cheat sheet Above is a quick reference cheat sheet with formulas needed for the VFR pilot.Below is an amplified guide and explanation for each formula. VA What is Va, and why does it change? Va is the maximum speed at which we would stall before we damaged the airframe, if a sudden…
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Why do we calculate TAS?
Our goal is to understand the differences between each airspeed. Typically, when planning a cross-country flight, it is our goal to find ground speed, and sometimes indicated airspeed. What’s wrong with IAS? Why do we need to find True Airspeed all the time? When we read our airspeed from our airspeed indicator, as the name…