Private Pilot Ground School. Chapter 1.

great performance now I can fly something over 200 horsepower the plane could also be complex you know what is complex in the world we are in is this complex thing the a320 well maybe who knows I guess so, but what defines complex what is the difference between me flying my Cessna 172 or a Piper Arrow or an Airbus 320 what makes these things complex or not complex. They satisfy three key elements and those are: it has to have retractable landing gear. The up and down gear also has to have an adjustable pitch propeller, so when you fly the 172 and want to make a power adjustment, you just advance the throttle correctly, that's all.

On some of these airplanes I advance the throttle and then you also set the propeller with a lever so it's just the Abul propeller and then it also has to have flaps. There are some airplanes that have retractable landing gear, adjustable propeller, and no flaps. It is not a complex plane that you will not find. many of them are right, but if it has all three it is complex and I can't fly it until I take

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and flight training and meet the rule requirements and an instructor approves my logbook to say I can fly that type of planes.

Well, within the previous 24 calendar months, we're talking about

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and command, and this

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ing command thing is very important and I accomplished a flight check or a pilot proficiency check in an airplane that you're qualified to fly, so that my pilot certificate never expires, it won't expire for now until I'm okay, but I can't act as pilot in command unless it's within the previous 24 calendar months and the FAA is very specific about calendar months and what that means . I have to do a flight check. The flight review could be with the administrator. We can go to Miramar and ask them to do a proficiency check and they would set me up with a schedule and do the proficiency check.

It's okay, it may take a while. You could get a designated examiner pilot or what most people do. they go to flight

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and get a certified flight instructor, or a certified flight instructor somewhere, so you have to have one for the airplane you're G rated for single engine airplane, the landing has to be on one of those that can Don't do it and a multi-engine landing and call it training and that satisfies your proficiency check, it doesn't work that way. The flight review must be performed by an FAA inspector, a certified flight instructor and pilot examiner, and then it has a key point. here that calendar month, so if we're talking about calendar month, I know from that word calendar that this implies the last day of that month, otherwise if it just said twelve months, well, is it the day I took this?

The day I originally took. my certificate or I had my last competency check is the first day of the calendar month or the first day of the month is the last name what day are we talking about whenever you see that word calendar month that means 24 months left and then go to the last day of the month that is when you have to take that is the last day you are eligible to fly finally you order the next day, which is the first day of the following month, you can't do it unless you meet this requirement okay, something else like that Maybe I want to carry passengers I can't carry passengers as a student pilot right that's why all the time you fly with your flight instructor is not pilot in command time because you have someone else on the plane once you become a

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pilot now we can carry passengers while the rule book is very specific how many takeoffs and landings I need to do in different conditions to be able to carry that passion or it says that within the previous 90 days I have to do three takeoffs and three landings in the same category and type of airplane if it has a tailwheel they must be with a complete stop and then also if it is an airplane with a tailwheel I need an endorsement just to fly the airplane with a tailwheel it is fine, but if I want to carry passengers on a plane I have to do three takeoffs and landings and the previous 90 days, okay, if the airplane requires a type rating, the landings must have been made of the same type and it does not require landings of the same make and model for small airplanes, so if I have flown the Skyhawk three takeoffs and landings and now I want to fly a Cirrus with passengers and I did Skyhawk takeoffs and landings in the last 90 days, it's exactly the same, which puts me in the same category in class that I don't need.

Doing it for every make and model is fine, but every car has a type rating, what I do is fine for carrying passengers at night within the previous 90 days. I have to do three takeoffs and landings of the same category in class at night and come to a complete stop. I love the word night, what does night mean to the FAA? Does anyone have any ideas? Well, what does it mean? Hmm, you're getting quite a bit. Some of this stuff is in a big bowl, you're just mixing it all together and that's what happens. I know, okay, I love this part because everyone talks about the night and can't we just go outside and see that it's dark?

No, we can't because we have rules and these rules must be set at an exact time, okay, so 100% correct, now there are two. I would say maybe three of these things we have are fine now, where does the third one come into play? It's there, but it complicates Sal OTT from the other two, okay, in other words, what you just did was just take. one of these that doesn't get used very often and we just sprinkle it on the other one that's really important, okay, follow us for a moment, from dusk to dawn, why is it so important to me?

At what point in the world should I worry? From dusk to dawn we don't know, we know there are a couple different areas of the night. I don't know why they made me keep remembering these things, but why is it important from dusk to dawn? What do I need to do from dusk to dawn? you have to have the navigation lights on, that's the only time I need the navigation lights on. Now you go through who knows, there's a widely debated area about wind lights turning on and honestly, if it has Condesa lights, that little switch there, in other words, no.

The LED on that little switch there is probably just a dummy switch because you turn it on, but the lights come on and you can't tell if it's on or not, you're just turning it on and off the only time you need this. It's from dusk to dawn and that's why dusk to dawn at night is important. What happens from the hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise? after sunset until an hour before sunrise, well why do we use sunset and sunrise? Someone had a great idea because it's posted. You can look in the Navy Almanac and you can say I want to see the pre-flight planning I'm doing. for a flight on June 6, 2012 and you can find out exactly when it is, so any kind of rule you should know that if there is a rule there will be no doubt and no one will say: well, I think it's night, well, actually it's not at night. a little bit of light out here no, there's an exact time when that happens, okay, so that's the hour before or after sunset until an hour before sunrise, now we're talking about the end of evening civil twilight at the beginning of a civil morning twilight and okay, what time is it?

Well, it's when it's dark, that's when most airmen record the night. Oh, don't go into logs and all those other things that say it must be at night. Well then what is the night? when it's dark, is it like that? sunset no because what is the definition of sunset when the geographic center of the earth is 4 degrees below the horizon which means half of the Sun is above the horizon right there is still plenty of daylight and that's why you get your time after an hour before, okay, so we have Also to satisfy some FAA requirements if we decide to move, 30 days after you move, you must inform the FAA that you have moved.

This gets interesting for pilots who are in flight

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where they don't live because what's my address? Whatever your home address is, usually this is where they will send your certificate, so if you have someone in Nevada or Moscow or anywhere in the world who lives in this place that you actually live and can get your certificate and find a way to give it to him right that is your address if you stay here and no one else is there then this is your address that makes sense you are Tom's permanent address if you move now you will move 30 days After moving is easy, go online, register that you have moved, you will get a temporary one at that time and then they will send you that you are proud of your plastic certificate, it is fine, but in the database it shows that you have changed, it is okay, that's

chapter

1, kind of Fast Forward, but it's not that bad.

I understand that we have not done the slightest bit of review or study of the material leading up to it. Are there any questions about

chapter

one? No, okay, great.