Meeting the challenges of training in the 21st century!
Important FAA
rule change released 8/31/2011 allows for a combined Private
Pilot and Instrument Rating Course/Checkride. It's a revolutionary
way to train!
Whether you fly for pleasure, business, or a career in aviation, the Private
Pilot certificate with the Instrument Rating is your ticket into the full
spectrum of the airspace system - it is the key to maximizing the utility of a
general aviation aircraft. This book provides the information you need to learn
how to fly under both visual flight rules (VFR) and instrument flight rules
(IFR). The most comprehensive pilot textbook available, The Pilot's
Manual: Access to Flight provides efficient training methodology
that helps you graduate with a truly successful personal transportation
solution.
Technically Advanced Aircraft (TAA) demand a level of understanding and
functional proficiency as never before. This breakthrough course is simply the
most efficient and comprehensive way to prepare for flight in TAA and today's
increasingly complex flight environment. In addition, chapter review questions
will help prepare you for the FAA Private and Instrument Knowledge Tests.
The Private and Instrument curriculums are integrated in this training
approach, so pilots flying TAA learn to intrinsically manage the combined skills
of aircraft control, task management, systems management, and the complex flight
environment of today's busy airspace; a different approach from traditional
maneuver-based flight training.
General aviation has undergone an extraordinary transformation in recent
years. EFIS (electronic flight instrument system) or "glass" cockpit-equipped
aircraft, once the exclusive realm of airline, corporate, and military pilots,
have now proliferated the GA landscape. In what seemed like the blink of an eye,
pilots and instructors accustomed to flying aircraft equipped with conventional
gauges that hadn't changed much in almost 50 years were now sitting behind
sophisticated systems with glowing displays, comparable only to some of the most
advanced airliners and corporate jets. These second generation "Technically
Advanced Aircraft" (TAA) literally represented the coming of a new age and the
promise of nearly unlimited potential. At the same time however, the arrival of
these sophisticated aircraft created an unprecedented training and operational
challenge never experienced in GA. The Pilot's Manual: Access to Flight has been
specifically crafted to meet this challenge, making use of methods that will
allow pilots to obtain the maximum safety and utility from their aircraft.
For the first time ever, Private and Instrument curriculums are integrated so
pilots flying TAA learn to intrinsically manage the combined skills of aircraft
control, task management, systems management, and the complex flight environment
of today's busy airspace. This is a very different approach from the practice of
traditional maneuver-based flight training used heretofore. With a realization
of the inadequacy of maneuver-based training as applied to TAA, The Pilot's
Manual: Access to Flight embodies the state-of-the-art industry training
standards of scenario-based training (SBT), learner centered grading and
involvement, and single pilot resource management (SRM). These are real world
skills, taught with a train-like-you-fly, fly-like-you-train philosophy,
treating each and every lesson as a "real" flight. This is where harnessing the
power of all available resources and aeronautical decision making (ADM) become
second nature. Whereas maneuver-based training focused specifically on simply
learning to control the aircraft, this new methodology involves considering an
entire flight, and all its component aspects, from beginning to end.
Table of Contents:
- The Pilot
- 1. Airmanship
- 2. Human in the Cockpit
- 3. Aviation Regulations
- Aerodynamics
- 4. Forces Acting on an Airplane
- 5. Stability and Control
- 6. Aerodynamics of Flight
- The Airplane
- 7. Airframe
- 8. Engine
- 9. Systems
- 10. Flight Instruments
- 11. Weight and Balance
- Navigation
- 12. Charts
- 13. Airports and Airport Operations
- 14. Visual Navigation Fundamentals
- 15. GPS
- 16. Radar and ADSB
- 17. VOR
- 18. Airspace
- 19. Flight Planning
- Instrument Flight
- 20. Introduction to Instrument Flight
- 21. IFR Departure
- 22. Enroute
- 23. Instrument Approaches
- 24. Visual Maneuvering
- 25. VOR and Radar Approaches
- 26. GPS Approaches
- 27. ILS Approaches
- 28. Holding Patterns, DME arc
- 29. Partial Panel
- Weather
- 30. Wind, Air Masses, and Fronts
- 31. Visibility
- 32. Clouds
- 33. Icing
- 34. Thunderstorms
- 35. High-Level Meteorology
- 36. Weather Reports and Forecasts
- Appendix 1 Abbreviation
- Appendix 2 Answers to Review Question
- Index
Click on the links below for sample pages and an explanation of the training
approach in this textbook.
Table of Contents & Foreword
Chapter 7 - Airframe
Foreword by Cirrus Design co-founders Alan and Dale Klapmeier
Includes more than 800 full-color illustrations. Review questions conclude each
chapter.
Hardcover, 816 pages