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Are You Too Fat? - tips for all pilots
Everything you wanted to know about "Night"
Error Management
The Right Amount of Ground Training, Machado
Student Training Plans
Training CRM
FAA Aviation Safety Program - free education opportunities
Common Aviation Abbreviations - Weather Abbreviations
Aviation Mnemonics
Runway Incursions Tip Sheet - preventing runway incursions
Complex & High Performance Endorsements
Airport Beacons | Light Gun Signals | Best Practices Aircraft Lighting
What's the difference between Part 61 and Part 141?
About Checkrides, Part 1
Are You Really Ready For the Checkride?, Part 2
The Checkride Mindset, Part 3
Fly the Machine - an engine emergency
Anatomy of an Engine Failure
Chasing the Dream, Part1
Encouragement from the Flight Deck, Part 2
What are you doing over there? / Spreading Myths - get the facts, stop listening to the B.S.
Are you in it for the long haul? - immediately improve your flying / Rotation Speed
I Passed the Written, Now What? / Eight Steps to an Airline Career, Part 3
IFR Risk Management
How do we rate pilots? - what makes a pilot good
Things Your Flight Instructor Wish You Knew - or Helicopter
15 Things Pilots Must Learn - or Helicopter
Making Safe Choices
Flying Discipline
Things Your Flight Instructor Worries About
Aviation Safety Programs
Flight Profile Flying - how to improve safety flying the profile
Personal Minimums Checklist(download)
Introduction to Aeronautical Decision Making - Hazardous Attitudes
Information on the FAA Pilot Proficiency Program "Wings"
Preventing Your Aircraft from Coming Apart in Flight
Characteristics of Successful Pilots
Ten Commandments for Safe Flight
What's Killing Pilots - What to do to save your life
Bending Metal - the most common causes of non-fatal accidents
Flight Profile Flying - how to improve safety flying the profile
CFI Liability - a stark look at CFI professionalism
The Heinrich/Smith Safety Triangle
Visi-Hold - the easy way to figure out instrument holds
After the IFR Rating
178 Seconds to Live - Spatial disorientation
Logging Safety Pilot Time
Staying IFR Current - Information about the IPC
Working together on an instrument rating
Questions about Clearances
Clearance Shorthand
Holding Simplified - Printable Version
Instrument Approaches: Power Performance Model
Bravo Pattern - beginning exercise for IFR students
IFR Lesson Guides - from the Instrument Training Handbook
VFR Weather Minimums (When you cancel IFR)
General Tips on Radio Communications
Instrument Checkride Reviewer
Single Pilot IFR - tips for managing the flight
Why You Should do Your Instrument Rating in a Twin
FAR Part 95, What does it mean to you?
GPS in lieu of ADF/DME
What's happening to the navaids?
IFR Descent Profile Exercise
Airline Transport Pilot Certificate Training Profile
IFR Cross Country Flight Planning Checklist
IFR Flight Planning Form (download)
How to Get the Instrument Flight Plan You Want
Are you really ready for the instrument rating?
Flight Profiles for IFR Crosscountry Curious about the instrument checkride?
IFR Checkride POA
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Part 1: About Checkrides - Rating Application FAA Form 8710 - Read the FAA newsletter DPE Update
Accelerated Training Programs, Do They Work?
What to do after the Private Pilot Certificate
Darren's Guide to the Flight Review
Are you really ready for the instrument rating?
Checkrides:About Checkrides | Are You Really Ready For the Checkride? | The Checkride Mindset
Flight Profile Series: Introduction | Flight Profiles Improve Safety | Flight Profiles for IFR Crosscountry | Commercial X/C
Radio Skills:General Tips on Radio Communications | Radio Communications - Non Towered Airports | Ten Tips to Immediately Improve Your Radio Technique | ATC's Top 9 Pet Peeves
Cross Country Flying
Introduction to Weather Services
Weather Briefing: Graphical & Textual
Introduction to Cross Country - FAA flight plan form
NOTAM Contractions - info about notams & terms used within
Weather Brief Planning Form
Weather Report Abbreviations (very long)
Metric Conversions Kilos/Litres
VFR Weather Minimums
Instruction Information:My Teaching Beliefs | Instruction Policies | Pledge to Students | Characteristics of Successful Pilots
CFI Articles
Instruction Safety - accident stats in flight training
CFIs: Shed the Tin Cup Mentality
FAA AC 61-65e - student endorsements
All about the NASA form
FAA AC 61-67c - stall/spin awareness
FAA AC 61-9b - transition to complex & multi aircraft
Tips for Technical Presentations | General Info CFI Certificate | CFI Ground School Syllabus | Tactics for the Professional CFI | Sample Budget while in Training | Things Flight Instructors Worry About | CFI Liability | What it takes to become a CFI | Advice to the New CFI
Pilot Technique/Maneuvers/Special Topics
Understanding TDS - The Death Sprial
Knowing the Winds - Why its so important to know wind direction
Box Canyon Turn - How to do one
Approach & Landing - Traffic pattern graphic (how to do) - Download
Using Flaps - Purpose of flaps and how to use them
Stalls - Richard Collin's opinion on stall training
Crosswind Technique
Collision Avoidance
Border Procedures - advice for entering Canada/US
Crew Resource Management Resources
Tailwheel Endorsements | Taildragger Checkout | Wheel Landings
Ten Commandments for Overwater Flight
AOPA Single-Pilot IFR Safety Advisor
AOPA Spatial Disorientation Safety Advisor
Weather Articles: Avoiding Icing| Simple Rules for Winter Flight |AOPA Weather Strategies Safety Advisor | AOPA Weather Tactics Safety Advisor | AOPA Aircraft Icing Safety Advisor
Aircraft Info: McCabe report on Tomahawk safety | Tomahawk Specifications | Transponders | V-Speeds, definitions of | Aircraft Datasheet (download)
Recurrent Training: Darren's Guide to the Flight Review | BFR - Frequently Asked Questions | AOPA Online - Pilots' Guide to Getting Back Into Flying | AOPA ASF Pilot's Guide to the Flight Review (download) | IPC - Frequently Asked Questions | IPC Checkout Form | OnlineBFR/IPC
Crew Resource Management Articles: Fundamentals of CRM | Resolving Conflict | Workload Management | Checklist Usage | Briefings & Callouts | Training CRM | Threats to Safety | Error Management | Integrating Threat & Error Management | What are you doing over there?
Other Educational Articles:Fundamentals of GPS | AOPA GPS Technology | AOPA GPS Resources | Using GPS: VFR waypoints | Garmin GPS Simulator | AOPA Collision Avoidance | AOPA Fuel Awareness | AOPA Maneuvering Flight | AOPA Operations at Nontowered Airports | AOPA Operations at Towered Airports | AOPA Ups & Downs of Takeoffs & Landings | AOPA ASF Nall Safety Report | AOPA Propeller Safety | AOPA Airspace for Everyone | AOPA Pilot’s Guide to the Flight Review
Neat Stuff:
100 Heroes of Aviation
Certification Information of Famous Pilots
Memorable Aviation Quotes
cfidarren.com Guestbook
The Phone Calls I Get
Guest Columns: Race to the Bottom, Race to the Bottom II, Your $ Paid for This, 178 Seconds Dissected by Paul McGhee, America's Standing in the World by Anthony T, Pressure Rising
IFR Lesson Guides: Basic Attitude Instruction | Cockpit Check | Pitch Control | Bank Control | Power Control | Constant Airspeed | Turns | ITO | Constant Rate | Compass | Steep Turns | Unusual Attitudes | Precision Flight | Bravo Pattern | Descent Profile
IFR Navigation: General Info Instrument Rating | Instrument Rating Lesson Plans | 7-day IFR Rating | IFR Adventure | Instrument Ground School | Safety Pilot | Holding Simplified | IFR Risk Management | Trip Reports | Flight Profiles | Rating Requirements | After the IFR Rating | Checkride Reviewer | Are you really ready for an instrument rating?
