Flying Airplanes VFR Quotes

“Try to fly the pattern so that you will end up with about a three mile final from your base leg.”
― Hal Stoen, Flying Airplanes VFR: How to fly airplanes, real and simulated. What the instruments mean, taking the Private Pilot flight test, and more.....

“Power controls altitude, pitch controls airspeed”
― Hal Stoen, Flying Airplanes VFR: How to fly airplanes, real and simulated. What the instruments mean, taking the Private Pilot flight test, and more.....

“landing area.)”
― Hal Stoen, Flying Airplanes VFR: How to fly airplanes, real and simulated. What the instruments mean, taking the Private Pilot flight test, and more.....

“the runway end appears to be moving towards you, you will land long. Reduce your power, but maintain your airspeed by lowering the nose as necessary. If the runway end appears to be moving away, you will land short. Add power but maintain your airspeed by raising the nose as necessary. If there is no relative movement of the runway end you will touchdown in the landing”
― Hal Stoen, Flying Airplanes VFR: How to fly airplanes, real and simulated. What the instruments mean, taking the Private Pilot flight test, and more.....

“The traffic pattern is made up of four "legs": the "upwind leg", the "downwind leg", the "base leg" and the "final leg".”
― Hal Stoen, Flying Airplanes VFR: How to fly airplanes, real and simulated. What the instruments mean, taking the Private Pilot flight test, and more.....