Flight Limitations for Pilot Training

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Rodney Fielitz I'm a certified flight instructor in Cottonwood, AZ and I'm here to give you the basics of what it takes to become a pilot. On this next phase the teaching we have different programs that we have to teach you in the airplane. In the beginning what we teach you is to straight level flying and how to fly on the road, stay straight with the road and see how the wind effects you. If the wind is blowing in one direction you'll see that that you're not following this road anymore and we call it a crab angle, so whatever it takes to put the nose into the wind to make you fly a straight line then the distance between your nose and the road, is called a crab angle. So this is the basics of flying it's just flying straight level flying smooth and keeping the airplane wings low and not making climb, or descend or turn. As we get further into the maneuvers we have to start getting into more complex maneuvers, during your private and in the manual again they have maneuvering and what is critical airspeeds to use. VA is one speed that we did not talk about and it is called a maneuvering speed, that is what speed the airplane can have a abrupt movement control without causing structural damage to the airplane. So anyways what we're doing during our flight training is we start getting complex with our maneuvers, we start teaching turns about point, that's where you pick a plane on the ground you make two turns completely around it, maintaining altitude, maintaining airspeed. We also do what we call steep turns that's where we're at a higher altitude and we do steep turns at a 45 degree a bank trying not to gain any altitude or descending altitudes, all this becomes precise. Another maneuver we teach is turns about a plane we turn S turns, turns about a road, lazy 8's, and different maneuvers, each maneuver has a reason. As you're learning these maneuvers the bottom line what they're teaching is how to fly an airplane slower, how to be precise with the airplane but the big thing is teaching you how to fly a pattern."