Northstar VFR
DECEMBER 22, 2024
Recovery from a spin is a guaranteed subject to come up on your private pilot checkride. The nose pitches up, sometimes aggressively because of how the airplane was trimmed on final approach and all your flaps are generally still down (lots of lift there). So how do you recover from a spin? What happens next? Take your time!
CFI Academy
MARCH 28, 2025
For the FAA Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Airplane Single Engine (ASE) checkride, the demonstration stalls are specific maneuvers that you, as a CFI candidate, must perform and explain to demonstrate your instructional knowledge and ability. There are indeed four demonstration stalls youll need to master for the CFI checkride.
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Air Facts
MARCH 5, 2025
You then execute a 180 o descending Final Turn maintaining 175 knots to arrive wings-level one mile from the threshold on final approach at 500 AGL. At that point, you slow to the final approach speed of 155 knots, which is held until crossing the approach-end overrun where you reduce power to touch down at 130 knots.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
After all, I had just aced my checkride. At about one mile from the final approach fix, I put the Cessna into a high-speed dive towards the minimum descent altitude of 400 feet AGL. I tucked the hard-earned temporary certificate into my wallet on the second day of June, 1972. What else was there to know?
Inflight Pilot Training
JUNE 20, 2025
Our streamlined processes—from aircraft dispatch to checkride coordination—ensure that your momentum never stalls. On-Site DPE Access: Streamlined Checkride Experience Inflight maintains strong working relationships with multiple Designated Pilot Examiners (DPEs), many of whom conduct checkrides right at our facility.
CFI Academy
MARCH 28, 2025
For the FAA Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Airplane Single Engine (ASE) checkride, the demonstration stalls are specific maneuvers that you, as a CFI candidate, must perform and explain to demonstrate your instructional knowledge and ability. There are indeed four demonstration stalls you’ll need to master for the CFI checkride.
AV Web
JANUARY 22, 2025
Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach. On final approach for a third landing and following a Zenith STOL 701 also on final, the accident airplane descended and appeared to be lower than the airplane ahead. How might that have happened? Subsequently, its pitch attitude increased.
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