Tag: FAA

  • Logging the Flight Time

    Logging the flight time can be tricky when you need to meet the requirements for different authorities, for example, FAA and EASA. They have a lot of common points, but they have some essential differences as well, so it’s better to know them to save some money. First of all, I’d like to explain some […]

  • Multi-engine

    I am starting my multi-engine flights. FAA CPL requires 10 hours in a complex airplane (with retractable gear, variable pitch prop, flaps). Now it changed, but it was a requirement in 2018. I am going to obtain ME rating anyway, so I decided to fly my complex hours in a multi-engine airplane. Usually our school […]

  • FAA CPL Written Exam

    Today I passed my CPL written exam. It was relatively easy after all that preparation. I was going to buy Sheppard Air as the best available question bank, but finally I had chosen ASA Prepware, Gleim and AviationExam since they are cheaper and have an one-month subscription option. From my opinion, AviationExam is the best […]

  • A TOMATO FLAMES

    Before every flight we have perform a preflight check, and for flying VFR (visual flight rules) during daytime there is list of equipment which must exist and must be operational. The entire list is stated in § 91.205, and there is an acronym for simplify our lives: A TOMATO FLAMES. Once filled out it looks […]

  • To be continued

    This post is becoming traditional when I continue my practical training after 1-3 months interruption: blog is still alive, the goal is getting closer. At least I am flying again. I flew more than an hour today and practiced different kinds of take-offs and landings: normal, short field, sort field. Then stalls and steep turns. […]

  • IR Part 141: Checkride

    After about 2 months of flying, studying and waiting I am going to have an Instrument Rating checkride. Actually I am very happy since I was waiting only 2 days after my end-of-course check, it is not common at all. We’re flying to Brooksville, the controlled airport nearby with ILS approach available. The weather is […]

  • IR Part 141: The End-of-course Check

    Part 141 course requires the internal school check flight before allowing students to have a checkride. Usually the school chief pilot or some senior flight instructor performs this check. In my case this is the school owner, Tom Davis. The weather is fine today, and I have to demonstrate that I am ready for a […]

  • IR Part 141: Stage III Check

    Stage III mainly considers cross country flights and everything related to that: weather briefing, flight planning, reading and interpreting NOTAMs, fuel, weight and balance computation and so on. So for checking these skills we should make a cross country flight too. Today the weather is not perfect at all: there are wind gusts and pretty […]

  • IR Part 141: Long Cross Country

    Every student pilot should have a long cross country flight during his training course. It does not mean that you should really cross the entire country, of course, but there are some requirements to the flight legs. The requirements depend on a particular course (private, instrument or commercial program). Instrument rating requires a flight of […]

  • IR Part 141: Cross Country

    The 3rd stage of the course is almost entirely about cross-country flying. This means that the student must prepare and safely conduct the entire flight to some remote airport (more than 50 nautical miles from the departure airport). First of all, I’ve never created a flight plan before. Of course, I was preparing mass and […]