The "LEARN HOW TO FLY" project
{Under Construction}
by: weasello contributions by: n/a
It is, of course, too difficult to explain how to fly in merely one node. Well; ok, it is. Check out
the quick start. But if you want to actually
learn, it's going to take some time, and a lot of effort.
As such, it's going to take quite some time to get this node finished; hence the "project" in the title. So bear with me as I flesh out these chapters.
Anyone who can lend a hand, or any pilots out there, please /msg me and I'll give you some work to do.
I am constructing this node as I learn various chapters, as I myself am training. If my teachers lie to me, and my textbook concurs, I will have to be corrected by people in-the-know. (this means you!)
These flight regulations and rules are based on
CANADIAN law. This is not because I hate americans or I think Canada is superior; it is because the Canadian flight license is accepted worldwide, wheras the American flight license is only accepted in the U.S.A.
Why is this? Because the American regulations are less strict than other countries, and you don't learn as much in training. As such, a Canadian (Or
Australian) license is by far superior and the best to train for. Read up on
why a Canadian license is better than most others.
Linked items are completed
CONTENTS
CESSNA 172 (FIXED WING)
- Quick Start
- Introduction to Flight (or: Convince me to be a Pilot)
- Ground School
- Theory of Flight
- Air Regulations
- Canadian and International Airspace
- Air Law - Rules of the Air (see also: VFR, IFR, and ATC)
- Miscellaneous Requirements
- Engines and Ancilliary Controls
- Medical Facts and a special focus on Hypoxia
- Meteorology
- Pressure Systems
- Temperature, Humidity, and Lapse Rates
- Air Masses and Fronts
- Precipitation, Icing, Fog, Freezing Rain, and Sleet
- Reading the Sequences
- Navigation
- Performance Calculations - Weight and Balance
- Testing
- Ground School Exam
- Official Canadian Licensing
- Flying Lessons
- Familiarization
- The Walkaround
- Ancillary Controls
- Taxiing
- Attitudes & Movements
- Straight & Level Flight
- Climbing
- Descending
- Turns
- Range and Endurance
- Slow Flight
- Stalls
- Spinning, Spirals and the dangerous Flat Spin
- Slipping
- Takeoff
- The Circuit
- Approach & Landing
- First Solo
- Illusions Created by Drift
- Precautionary Landings
- Forced Landings
- Pilot Navigation
- Night Flying
- Floatplanes
- Skiplanes
- Type Conversion
- Emergency Procedures
- Radio Communications
- Aircraft Maintenance and the general parts of an Aircraft
- Basic Engine Mechanics
- Basic Airframe Mechanics