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Teaching Skills or Creating Aviators? While reading an aviation magazine I read a statement from the editor that “Flight training is great for teaching skills, but it’s terrible for making pilots”. This started a thought process in my head and made me realize that in many cases he was correct.

Today we discuss how we can better prepare ourselves for the real world of flying while also accepting the fact your pilot certificate is truly a license to learn. Remember a good pilot is always learning.

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Teaching Skills or Creating Aviators:

Are we training pilots or simply teaching skills?
How do we train our students for the real world.
Do you tailor your training towards a specific type of flying?
Weather flying in your geographic area.
Tailwheel endorsement.
Flying over water at night.
As students do we want to get the rating quickly or really learn?
Crosswinds
Long and short runways.
Pilotage instead of GPS
Insurance Checkout.

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Victoria: Aloha 360 Podcast

Carl: Aerospace Scholarships Guide

Tom: Null School website on weather patterns

Rick: Tabitha Fink Pirate Plushie

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We rarely do them and when we do they usually don’t go as planned. Your instructors always told you to be ready for one and be spring loaded to perform one. We hear many accidents and incidents of pilots performing one with no success. What are we talking about? The go around. In this episode we will discuss how you can have a successful go around every time you fly.

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Our successful and not so successful go-arounds.

What is a successful go-around?

Why go around?

Situations such as air traffic control (ATC) requirements

unexpected appearance of hazards on the runway
overtaking another airplane
wind shear
wake turbulence
mechanical failure
unstable approach

How to make all your go arounds successful.

Decide early
Unstabilized approach
Power and Pitch up.
Don’t point at the ground.
Assure airspeed is going up and altitude is not going down.
Know your airplane. Most planes pitch up but some pitch down when applying power.

Go arounds are a normal maneuver not an emergency.

Why we don’t go around when we should