User:Ac001/Tutorial Overview

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Flight College



Pre Intro

  • Welcome to some tutorials in sandbox and idea, working towards a "crash course" or "flight college"... this is all WIP (work in progress)
  • The "airport" and "area" is London Heathrow and UK
  • Feedback, corrections most welcome, etc (just go and edit stuff)
  • The format is experimental and intended to make it an "observationsal" style by presenting a scenario..
  • Its hoped that the format can be used for other languages eg Paris/french, Milan/Italy
  • Not sure how advanced or simple to make this stuff, but its assumed user can fly an aircraft.


Welcome to Flight College

This is a tutorial and training series to assist new pilots get aqquainted with making trips between airports via IFR.

  • The series is centred on EGLL - London Heathrow Airport, UK.
    • Charts from NATS
  • UK airspace is governed by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) who constantly maintain the intricate details, and publish them.
  • The charts, data, et all are available from National Air Traffic Services (NATS) an air navigation service provider.
  • Euro Control is a sister organisation for coordinating airspace in Europe.

If you are a new pilot, then this series will take you through the steps. If the text below doesn't make sense now, it will by the end of this series. Your feedback, corrections and suggestions etc are important and valuable to help other TPs in the future.

Analogies

A similar concept to flying and aircraft from A to is that of driving a car on a long journey

  • Prep
    • in a car you have to prepare the car, fuel, check wipers, tyres(+spare) ok, water ok etc for 16hr drive
    • in an aircraft u hwave to prepeare, check wipers, batteries, tyres, for 2hr flight
  • Direction
    • leave down the street, then through town, to motorway and the junction heading north..
    • leave down the taxiway, from the parking to the runway, runway heading is SE, take off then head north
  • Cruise
    • On the motorway I want to travel at around 75kph, 5kph above the legal speed limit of 70kph.... so hopefully camera wont catch me..
    • I need to be over 80ias, if I'm slower than that then I stall the wings and drop out of the sky in spectacular.
  • Stop
    • If car ahead, I can slam on the brakes and with all the kids, wife, picnic and caravan, can come to a compete stoop in about 50m
    • Aircraft in air, there is no way to stop, I need to fly around up or down and around.. Stopping is impossible..
  • Navigation
    • Can we stop the car and look at the map... right we are here.... so if we turn back the other way we'll be there.. and decide there ok.. (NO no I think we should take this route.. trust me.. I think I been here before, maybe)
    • We cant stop the aircraft, so a few moments ago we were there, so were heading that way.. soon to be there.




Pre Flight Briefing

This is an example conversation and a briefing by the PNF to the PF. In this instance the First Officer is flying back with the Commander being the monitor.

  • PF is commanding the aircraft
  • PNF is doing the ATC and monitoring pilot
  • Within FG, you are both.
So its the usual EGLL to EGCC, its SE wind at EGLL so RWY 09R for HON SID, then UL9 FL15 to WAL STAR, then expected NW approach to EGCC 90.

Reality

To be a real pilot, you would do a lot of classes and tests. The tests can be really nasty and pilots are expected to perfrom at around ninety-eight percent . Indeed a lot of training is done now in a simulator, such is the sophistication. Crashing real aircraft costs money.

Simulator

To be a real pilot, you would do a lot of classes and tests, crash and test a few planes.. switch the weather to hurricance for fun.. then ...

Overview

  • Airport - explains the airport enviroment
  • Runway explains the runway
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