Sport Pilot Endorsements

CLICK TO SHARE Aviation Math T-Shirt Number of Take-Offs Equals Number of Landings (Hopefully) View on Amazon There are other airspace designations that you should be aware of. Refer to the FARs for specifics, but here is an overview: Prohibited areas: ones in which you cannot fly Restricted areas: ones in which you cannot fly…

CLICK TO SHARE The airspeed indicator is your plane’s speedometer. It indicates what your speed is through the air in knots (nautical miles per hour). How does it do this? Aviation Math T-Shirt Number of Take-Offs Equals Number of Landings (Hopefully) View on Amazon The airspeed indicator compares the speed of air at the edge…

CLICK TO SHARE Had to sell your boat to buy your new aircraft? Pilots living in areas with navigable waters can do both by installing floats to land on lakes and rivers. Aviation Math T-Shirt Number of Take-Offs Equals Number of Landings (Hopefully) View on Amazon Of course, you’ll need to get your logbook endorsed…

CLICK TO SHARE The attitude indicator (if your plane is equipped with one) shows you the plane’s attitude (angle) in relationship to an artificial horizon. This attitude corresponds to the angle your plane is flying relative to the real horizon. One of the skills you’ll be developing is learning the relationship between what the attitude…

CLICK TO SHARE As you can imagine, the cost of manufacturing airplanes to these new consensus standards is much lower than for FAA certification. That’s one of the great benefits of the new SP/LSA rulings: Aircraft are about half as expensive to make. And, as more planes are made, costs will come down even further….

CLICK TO SHARE Your first step in a preflight inspection is to make sure your aircraft is legal. What’s required to be legal? Your aircraft must have paperwork on board that indicates it is airworthy and registered. In addition, it should have the operating handbook with weight and balance information and a list of installed…