AviatorCast: Flight Training & Aviation Podcast

AviatorCast: Flight Training & Aviation Podcast


22 Flight Training, Flying & Aviation Career Questions — Motivation Monday #7

February 11, 2020

https://youtu.be/pkCAygG3fdc

Questions on this episode:
0:55 Instrument Rating. How do you keep everything straight in your head?
2:34 Ownership expenses/upgrades, and what to prioritize?
4:47 In your opinion, what’s the most difficult subject for PPL?
7:04 Hello Chris, I will start flying school soon and I will fly twice a week due to full time job. I’m thinking of taking 1 week vacation…
8:54 Good situations for VFR on top?
11:06 I have flown twice in 3 weeks. How do you suggest I stay proficient during this terrible Ohio weather?
14:05 Can you use different instructors? For example if I wanted to fly with you?
17:01 About to take instrument checkride. Any advice for calming nerves?
20:16 I’m about to solo for the first time, it is nerve racking.
21:36 PPL! How do you know what CTAF to use when over an area? Not necessarily going to an airport?
25:33 Do you advise to have a minimum hours of VFR before going IR as a recreational pilot?
27:54 How quickly can someone get a PPL?
30:14 What regulations should I know as a commercial pilot?
33:02 I’m starting an integrated flight training program in October. Any advice on how I can make a good start to the flight training?
34:31 I stopped flying in 2018 because I joined the military. Should I start from 0?
36:00 Any plans of upgrading 2423U’s instrument panel?
36:42 Any jobs you could recommend for a SEL commercial pilot? Looking to go to the airlines ASAP.
39:01 Advice to improve your radio calls?
40:20 What FAA approved mobile weather and flight plan apps do you recommend?
42:36 I am trying to get a better grasp on weather. Instrument check ride in two weeks.
47:56 What’s your opinion on military aviation?
48:53 Any tips for a college student on a budget trying to stay current?

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Episode Transcript
Hello aviators, welcome to another motivation Monday. Thank you for being here. Hope you enjoy these questions that I’m about to answer for all sorts of different areas of fight training. Today it seems like there’s a little bit more of an emphasis on affordability of flight training, on commercial training, on passing Checkrides and building time, which are fairly typical questions, but that’s a lot of what we get in today in addition to some other things along the way.
So thank you for being here and make sure to subscribe, like this video and join the conversation here in the comments. Really appreciate you being here. Come back every Monday, ask a question on Instagram where I do this live and we will have this good time together where you can learn something new every single week here on the Angle of Attack channel. So thanks for being here, let’s get right into it.
So, instrument rating, how do you keep everything straight in your head? So the instrument flying is pretty interesting because there are so many precise technical details about where you are and where you’re flying that you need to be obviously on top of those things because we’re flying to a greater precision in instrument flying. So really it’s important to take notes on clearances you get and things that you need to remember. It’s important to even take notes on say your instrument approach, play, highlight them, things like that.
In ForeFlight for example. There is a way to highlight your approach plates and find the areas that are the most important. And of course you can brief them there as well. You can put those on top, GL reference on top of the map. And then in terms of you, which is the most important part,