Basic Private Pilot Ground School
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Lesson 1: Your First Flight6 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 2: Maneuvers and the Traffic Pattern6 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 3: Understanding the Wind and Turns6 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 4: AOA, Stalls, and Other Scary Things5 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 5: Ground Reference, Maneuvers, and FARs4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 6: Building Good Landings5 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 7: The Less Busy Airspace: G, E, D3 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 8: Class A, B, and C Airspace: The Busier Side of the Sky4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 9: Flying Blind and Performance Calculations4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 10: Soft and Short Field T.O.'s + Landings4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 11: Start Your Engines: Engines, Systems, and Instruments6 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 12: Weight and Balance, Navigation Systems4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 13: Luck with Weather6 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 14: Your First SOLO!2 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 15: VFR Charts and Navigation5 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 16: Weather Charts and Services6 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 17: Aeromedical Factors, ADM, FARS5 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 18: Flying at Night3 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 19: Cross Country Flight Planning4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 20: Test Prep5 Topics|2 Quizzes
Weather Briefings
VFR Weather Briefings
It’s always nice when someone else helps you to decipher the weather. In the old days, it was standard to always make a phone call and have a professional weather briefer decipher the weather maps for you and help you understand the full weather picture that you were looking at out the window. Today we have lots of apps and online resources to get weather briefings from. The most crucial thing to do, whether you choose to pick up the phone and speak to someone or use an online resource, is to make sure you are getting your information from an FAA approved official source. YOU ALWAYS WANT SOMEONE OR SOMETHING TO RECORD YOUR NAME OR TAIL NUMBER WHEN GETTING A BRIEFING.
The reason you want a record of this is pure CYA. You want to be able to show the FAA (or anyone else for that matter) that you did your due diligence and complied with 91.103 (preflight planning). Included in your briefing will be NOTAMs and TFRs. You want to be able to prove you checked these, trust me! (or trust the guys who got a call from the FAA after flying through a TFR they were not aware of).
In the video above, we’ll take a look at what a regular phone call with a weather briefer sounds like (1800-992-7433) 1800-WX-BRIEF.
If you are looking for a good, free online resource without talking to someone (I would highly recommend you always call instead of go online), you can try 1800wxbrief.com