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This is the best place to start. These Flight Guides cover sport flying basics, how planes fly, the rules of the air, ground school, and the opportunity of learning to fly at home. |
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Sport Flying Basics
The Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation have authorized a new pilot's license that makes flying certification faster to learn and less expensive than ever before. Find out what it is, how it works, and how you can get one in just a few weeks!
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How Planes Fly
What makes an airplane fly? Money! Actually, airplanes fly by following irrevocable laws of physics. In this Flight Guide you learn what those laws are and, more important, how to be a law-abiding pilot. Just as driving a car requires that you follow both the laws of physics and the laws of the road, so flying airplanes requires knowledge of the relevant laws. And knowledge is power. Knowledge can help you overcome the natural fear of flying. It can help you relax in the friendly skies.
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Rules of the Air
Someday, the roads of America will be smoother. Buses and trucks will be tracked by radar and satellite. Fast cars will have their own highway. Sightseers will be able to wander wherever they want as long as they don't get in the way of commercial and fast traffic. Aviation already is enjoying this structure. Commercial and freight jets as well as faster private aircraft follow instrument flight rules (IFR) to keep them from bumping into each other. Sport, recreational, and private pilots stay out of the way and use visual flight rules (VFR). In fact, VFR pilots aren't allowed to get near some IFR aircraft until they have proper training.
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Ground School
Before you take off into the wild blue yonder, you need to know some additional things about sport flying. You need to study the basics before you can hope to apply them in the air. That's where ground school comes in—it's where you study the ABCs of flying. If you're already taking flight instruction, this guide helps clarify what you're learning. If you've not yet selected a flight school or instructor, it introduces you to what you're going to learn. If you're still undecided whether you want to fly, this guide gives you more ammunition for talking yourself into it.
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Flying at Home
Flying; even sport flying; can get expensive. And it's frustrating to try to learn the intricacies of flight at two dollars a minute! That's why modern students and even certified pilots save money by flying at home! This Flight Guide introduces you to the world of home aviation: learning, practicing, relaxing, and enjoying your flying time from the comfort of a spare bedroom or home office. You can even take your flying on the road with a laptop computer. Let's go flying!
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