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AOPA Rusty Pilots Webinar Tuesday, August 3rd 3:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. EDT Instructed by AOPA Ambassador Pat Brown. Life may have gotten in the way, but the dream of flight can be yours again. Returning to the skies is not as difficult as most rusty pilots think. We’re inviting you ...
Come join us on Don't Get Rusty for Part 2, as we now get deeper into the meat of all those symbols and what they really tell us, plus a review of how to interpret text based products during the 2nd part of our review of this topic. August 12th, 2021 from 12 to 1 pm Eastern Hosted by Chris Moser and Pablo ...
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AOPA Rusty Pilots Webinar Thursday, September 2nd 5:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. EDT Instructed by AOPA Ambassador Pat Brown. Life may have gotten in the way, but the dream of flight can be yours again. Returning to the skies is not as difficult as most rusty pilots think. We’re inviting ...
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Try it You'll Like it - The SSSytem - a poor man's Air Navigation system:
Get your students involved in my very LOW TECH pilot navigation system. I call it the SIMPLE SIX ( 6 ) Minute NAV System a.k.a. The SSSYSTEM Six ( 6 ) minutes is ten percent of an hour therefore 10% ground speed ....is how much land will pass under your wing in 6 minutes. Example at 120 ground speed x 10% = 12 miles in 6 minutes or 2 miles every one minute... then ask the student to start judging distances on the ground ... to turn points, lakes, rivers, airports, towers... inflight visibility...using the clock and
the SSSystem which also applies to fuel flow, glide distances...
Note - I was amazed how fast and how good - accurate my student pilots were ...