Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Be An Expert Private Pilot
Be An Expert Private Pilot
Monday, February 11, 2013
Private Pilot Training Online: Providing unparalleled help to aspiring pilots
In the present times, an increasing number of professional pilot training institutes provide knowledge to budding private pilots. Even though most of the institutes provide good amount of knowledge about aircrafts and flying, there are still a few aspects including successfully landing the plane that are not offered competitively by all institutes. It is therefore necessary to impart thorough knowledge to aspiring pilots about landing. In this regard, the expert help of someone who has an established name in the industry can come in extremely handy. Doug Daniels for example is one such expert who makes landing a confident process for pilots.
Doug has the experience of landing an aircraft over 5000 times! Overtime, Doug has made a long-lasting impact on the industry by providing superior free pilot training tutorials to students via a web-based portal. It is safe to say that Doug is arguably the leading flight instructor in the world. The fact that he built and test flown a small, experimental airplane goes to show his prowess in the field. Not just this, the man has even conducted in-depth research in fluid mechanics at a premier national lab in the US. Since beginning, he has been engaged in delivering exceptional landing knowledge to young pilots who are looking to make a mark in the domain.
Doug provides world class and free of cost private pilot training videos via the website www.privatepilottrainingonline.org. Whatever specific learning requirements you may have, Doug provides superb private pilot training videos that can go a long way in building a student’s skillset. Whether it is flying through thunderstorms or getting a hang of key terminologies, he makes learning absolutely easy and engaging. All a student has to do is to head to the portal, watch the landing tutorial and acquire important information without any hassles. The endeavor is to make you prepared to successfully land an aircraft.
Rest assured that the quality of Doug’s online flight training will enable you to become completely confident about landing the airplane. And it’s not just the quality of tutorials that make Doug’s website so amazing but other factors such as getting a flying license in 15 to 25 fewer flying hours (as compared to the national average) also make Doug a cut above the rest. The core goal of the website is to impart pilot training course in a streamlined way that can be easily comprehended and adopted by the students. In a nutshell, Doug Daniel’s website has what it takes to help people learn. For budding pilots, the website acts as an opportunity to enhance their skillsets. It only makes sense for an aspiring pilot to use their help that will help in the long run. Therefore, make sure to visit their website today.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Learn The Art of Flight Landing
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Three Skills to Land an Airplane
There are just three fundamental skills you need to know to land an airplane safely and consistently. They are airspeed control, projected glide control, and controlled slow flight. You can learn each separately. But you use them all to land safely and consistently.
The most fundamental and easiest to learn is airspeed control. You should start with it. Then you should master slow Dutch roll thoroughly at various airspeeds, aircraft configurations and angles of bank. Concurrently you can learn to control the projected glide point while maintaining a constant airspeed. Airspeed control and projected glide control bring the pilot to the right place at the right airspeed to start the transition from the approach glide to the landing phase.
Control airspeed with the elevator; fine-tune airspeed with power, flaps and landing gear. Monitor airspeed with the airspeed indicator, and then adjust your pitch attitude with the elevator to change your airspeed. If you add to the airplane's drag, you will be forced to pitch down to maintain constant airspeed. The opposite is true, as well. If you add power, you must lift your nose some, and so forth. Once you have learned to control your airspeed in various flap, landing gear, and power settings you are ready to move on to controlling either your projected glide point (PGP) or mastering slow Dutch rolls (SDR).
Controlling PGP is only slightly more difficult than controlling airspeed. During a constant airspeed approach, you will see a point on the ground that is staying absolutely still in your field of view. This is where you would be if you continued your approach glide. This is your PGP. If you keep your airspeed steady, your PGP will move farther away from you when you add power and it will come closer to you when you reduce the engine's power setting. More drag brings PGP closer; less drag pushes it away. There is really not much to controlling PGP, but when a pilot runs off the far end of the runway almost certainly poor PGP control, poor airspeed control, or both was the problem. You have to control them both to arrive at the right place and the right airspeed to execute a good landing.
Ironically, once you have flown the proper approach, you no longer need to control either airspeed or PGP. A new set of skills is required to execute the landing itself. Fortunately you can learn most of these skills with one exercise conducted at a nice comfortable attitude. You learn it by doing SDR in slow flight and in a landing configuration.
Pick a point on the horizon, hold it steady, and very slowly change your angle of bank without letting the point move. Repeat this exercise while transitioning from an approach glide to level slow flight. Add power as required to maintain a constant altitude while keeping that point steady. Now you are ready to start landing practice.
You learned how to keep the airplane from turning left or right in various angles of bank while flying in a landing configuration at speeds just above a stall by practicing SDR. This is a very good description of the technique used to land an airplane. If you have a simulator, you don't need an instructor. That is the nice thing about simulators; you botch up and try again. Airplanes are not so forgiving.
In either airplane or simulator, here is how to learn to land. You have successfully flown the approach so you are about one wing span above the runway, over its center line and at just the right airspeed. From now on PGP and airspeed need not concern you. Looking forward and from side to side like you were driving on the open road, you start raising your nose to slow the airplane's descent. Using your rudder pedals you keep the nose pointed at the far end of the runway. Using your ailerons you keep the airplane centered over the runway. Use your pitch attitude first, and then throttle, to keep the airplane off the runway.
You are NOT going to land! This is just an exercise. The objective is to get as close to the runway, at as slow airspeed as possible, without touching it. You are now doing that SDR in level slow flight that you did earlier. Just to prove you have mastered the situation, slide the airplane from side to side just above the runway without touching but as close as you can get. Be certain that you continue to keep the airplane pointed at the far end of the runway and the airplane's body parallel to the runway. As you approach the end of the runway.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Learn Flying through Thunderstorms and Safe Landing through Private Pilot Videos and Report
Doug Daniel’s online flight training tutorials are available on http://privatepilottrainingonline.org to download for free. Doug is an experienced flight instructor and pilot who is guiding you on all the ins and outs of the system and teaching you safest plane landing in his free online private pilot tutorial in the form of private pilot training videos and report.
Visit Private Pilot Training Online to download his free private pilot videos and reports. These videos and reports provide useful landing tutorial, aerodynamic terms, and other subjects, and the safe and smooth landing of the plane with high level of simplicity and clarity.