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Documents for Airworthiness 91.9, 91.203

Airworthiness certificate

Registration (temporary is pink)

Radio license (international flights)

Operation handbook

Weight & balance

 

Inspections for Airworthiness 91.409, 91.207, 91.411, 91.413. 91.417

AVIATES

Annual (12 months)

VOR Check (30 Days)

100 Hour or Progressive inspection
(required if aircraft is used for hire or flight instruction for hire—91.409(b))

Altimeter (24months 91.411) and

Airworthiness Directives

Transponder (24 months 91.413)

ELT (12 months)

Static inspection (24 months)

 

Equipment for Airworthiness

Required for VFR flight 91.205(b)

ATOMS 2 FLEA

Airspeed indicator

Altimeter

Tachometer (for each engine)

Temperature (each liquid cooled engine)

Oil pressure gauge (each engine using pressure system)

Oil temperature gauge (each air cooled engine)

Magnetic direction indicator (compass)

Manifold pressure gauge (for each altitude engine/turbo/supercharged)

Safety belt

Signaling device and flotation gear (when for hire beyond power-off gliding distance of the shore)

(2 is for all the previous letters twice)

Fuel gauge (quantity for each tank)

Landing gear position indicator (for retractable landing gear)

Emergency locator transmitter

Anti-collision light system

(any additional equipment required by the Pilots Operating Handbook)

 

Additionally required for VFR night 91.205(c)

 

FLAPS (additional equipment required for night flight)

Fuses (3 spare for each type)

Landing light (if for hire)

Anti-collision lights

Position lights

Source of electrical power (adequate for all installed electrical and radio equipment)

 

IFR Equipment Required

91.205 (d)
Additionally required for IFR flight
(in addition to those required by VFR night)

GRABCARD

Generator/Alternator

Radios (appropriate for flight)

Altimeter (sensitive/adjustable)

Ball

Clock (second hand sweep or digital)

Attitude indicator

Rate of turn

Directional gyro

 

Risk Elements

(Pilot in command, aircraft, environment, operation)

PAVE your way over the risks

    Pilot

    Aircraft

enVironment

    External pressures

 

Decide Model

Elements of the DECIDE model for decision making

Detect a change needing attention

Estimate the need to counter or react to change

Choose the most desirable outcome for the flight

Identify actions to successfully control the change

Do something to adapt to the change

Evaluate the effect of the action countering the change

 

Visibility/Cloud Clearance Requirements

Special VFR requires

1. ATC clearance
2. Clear of Clouds
3. 1sm visibility (at least)
4. Daytime (sunrise to sunset)

 

Special Use Airspace

(United States)

PRWAMCN

Public Relations over a [crash]WAM CNn covers it

Prohibited

Restricted

Warning areas

Alert areas

Military Operations Areas

Controlled Firing Areas

National Security Areas

 

LOST 5 C’s

Confess

Climb

Conserve

Communicate

Comply

 

VFR Cross Country

East is Least, West is Best

VFR Cruising Altitudes  91.159

Based upon Magnetic Course (MC=True Course subtract Variation)
0° to 179° = Odd thousand +500 feet

180° to 359° = Even thousand +500 feet

Also for computing groundspeed winds

Winds from the left you subtract to heading

Winds from the right you add to heading

 

Night

Logging: FAR 1.1: civil twilight sunrise/sunset (generally when artificial illumination is required to read outside…on the ground)

Recency (to carry passengers at night) 61.57(b): 1 hour after sunset, 1 hour before sunrise (for both carrying passengers and accomplishing night recency requirements)

Position lights required: 91.209 Sunset to Sunrise

 

Hazardous Attitudes

Five hazardous attitudes and antidotes

I’M AIR (like I’m err or I’m erring)

 

Invulnerability               It could happen to me

Macho             Taking chances is foolish

Antiauthority                 Follow the rules, they are usually right

Impulsivity                    Think first—not so fast

Resignation                  I can make a difference, I am not helpless

 

Multi-Engine Aerodynamics

Identifying the critical engine:

(It is critical to remember the past)

PAST

P-factor

Accelerated slipstream

Spiraling slipstream

Torque

 

Vmc certification requirements 23.149

 

SMACFUM

Standard day at sea level

Max power

Aft CG

Critical engine windmilling

Flaps/gear down

Up to 5° bank

Most unfavorable weight

 

Lost engine memorized checklist

Maintain directional control

Blue line or better (82KIAS DA42)

Max power on the operating engine

Flaps up

Gear up

Identify: dead foot dead engine

Verify: throttle position, instruments

 

Fundamentals of Instruction

Characteristics of Learning

Purposeful—unique with individual’s past experience

Result of Experience—must experience to learn

Multifaceted—verbal, conceptual, emotional

Active Process—to learn: react and respond

 

Laws of Learning

Readiness—reason to learn–motivation

Exercise—most often repeated is best remembered

Effect—best with pleasant feeling

Primacy—teach right the first time

Intensity—vivid, dramatic, or exciting

Recency—most recent is best remembered

 

Levels of Learning

Rote–memorization

Understanding—perceiving and learning

Application—achieving skill to apply and perform

Correlation—associating learning to previously learned

Domains of Learning

Cognitive—recall information—understanding

Affective—awareness, integration, emotion toward the experience

Psychomotor—observation, habit, physical skill, coordination of muscles

 

Memorize Endorsements

Types of flight instructor endorsements

Park Off Pigs

Pilot certificates

Aircraft rating

Recency of experience requirement

Knowledge test

Operating privilege

Flight instructor certificate

Flight review

Practical test

Instrument rating

Ground instructor certificate

Student pilot certificate

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Private Pilot Endorsements