iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Avtech proFLIGHT This app is a high-quality weather tool for the professional flight crew. ProFLIGHT uses the actual flight route and time combined with the Met Office’s Global 10KM Weather model to produce a tailored weather forecast based on the most up to date information.

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Air Facts

MAY 15, 2024

A related point is that flight training isn’t something you can fake; there are real checkrides and real consequences for not meeting standards. Good luck cheating on the crosswind landing portion of your Private checkride, much less a type rating checkride.

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CFI Academy

JANUARY 26, 2024

Navigating Challenges at Altitude Weathering the Storm: Teaching in Adverse Conditions CFIs must navigate through various weather conditions, preparing their students to face the unpredictable nature of the skies. These pathways offer new challenges and opportunities for growth.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MAY 30, 2025

With the right apps, pilots can check weather, plan routes, improve radio communications, log flights, simulate flying scenarios, and even listen in on real-time ATC traffic. Best Apps for Aviation Weather 1. Best All-In-One Pilot App 4. ForeFlight Overview : ForeFlight is the most comprehensive EFB on the market.

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Northstar VFR

JULY 2, 2023

Remember when your CFI taught you to turn crosswind around 500-700 feet? Section 4-3-3 states “If remaining in the traffic pattern , commence turn to crosswind leg beyond the departure end of the runway within 300 feet of pattern altitude.” Check the AIM. It’s in there. Part 135: This pertains to operations that sell tickets.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

They are also one of the most feared maneuvers during the private pilot checkride. Weather, field conditions, obstacles, and many other elements greatly affect short field operations. Will you need a crosswind correction? If conducting a checkride, you might blow past the stopping point, which could result in a failure.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

Going into a checkride (or a grass strip) without solid soft field skills is asking for trouble. A faster, reduced-flaps approach improves aircraft control during strong crosswinds or gusts. If you’re at a field with no weather reporting, gauge the wind speed and direction using the windsock. Well, not exactly.

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Air Facts

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If nothing else, it certainly makes you appreciate the luxuries we have today, like GPS and datalink weather. The airplanes were almost comically unreliable (54 crashed), the pilots were fearless bordering on reckless (nine died), and the weather conditions were occasionally treacherous, but the event jump-started aviation after World War I.

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

Weather Go-arounds due to weather occur due to wind shear caused by gusting winds or microbursts. For instance, if an aircraft is on the crosswind leg, they’ll ask you to extend the upwind If you don’t have the time, that’s okay. Private and Commercial Pilot ACS Standards During a checkride, you must perform a go-around.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MAY 22, 2025

Well cover its unmatched location, exceptional airspace, elite facilities, weather advantages, community environment, safety reputation, and long-term career benefits for pilots. These skills are indispensable not just for checkride success but for future flights into busier airports and controlled environments.

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