Private PIlot License, Pre Solo Maneuvers

Today I will talk about the first part of your Private Pilot Training, also known as "Pre Solo Training" This is all the flight training required in order for you to solo the airplane by yourself.

This part of your training is the most work getting used to flying the plane and breaking the habits you all have of driving a car.

Your pre-solo flight training includes a few areas, I have listed them below:

1: Four Fundamentals of flight.

2: High Altitude Maneuvers

3: Ground Reference Maneuvers

4: Landings

5: Emergency Procedures

6: Your First Solo

In order for you to go up in the airplane solo by yourself, you will have to have logged instruction from an authorized instructor in these areas.


1: Four Fundamentals of Flight: This is the very basics of flying. Climbs, Turns, Descents and Straight and Level Flight. You should be taught these maneuvers outside the airplane. You don't want to get in the habit of looking inside the airplane right off the bat.


2: High Altitude Maneuvers: The high altitude maneuvers are maneuvers designed for you to understand how the aircraft reacts in different flight configurations. These maneuvers are: Steep Turns, Minimum Controllable Airspeed, Power on Stalls, Power off Stalls and Forward Slips. In my syllabus I ad two more maneuvers for hand eye coordination they are Flat Turns and Dutch Rolls.

3: Ground Reference Maneuvers: The Ground Reference maneuvers are maneuvers to get you used to controlling the airplane in relation to the ground. All of these maneuvers are practiced at an altitude of 500 - 1000 feet above ground level. The maneuvers you will have to practice are: Turns around a point, S-turns on a road and Rectangular courses.


4: Landings: This is the fun part and for most students the most frustrating part of their Private Pilot Certificate. Some students will pick this up in a few flights and others will need more practice.


5: Emergency Procedures: This part of your training, you go over what to do when something goes wrong. In most cases the planes just keep running and there are usually no problems but every once in a while something will happen. This part of your training is very important. You want to make sure you know exactly what you are going to do if something happens.


6:Your First Solo: After you have gone thru all of the above training it is that time of your training when you will finally get to go up all by yourself. In most cases this first solo flight will be at your local airport and you will go do three takeoffs and landings all by yourself.


Tomorrows Installment is Your Post Solo Maneuvers

Hope To See You In the Sky

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