Flying With a Purpose

What is flight training? How is it different from other training or education? How can a student pilot make the most of their flight training experience? Derek answers these questions here.

Melbourne Flight Training is now hosting "Master Classes" covering a wide range of topics. If you are in the Melbourne, Florida area (KMLB), stop by and join us.

If you want to see videos of David's personal flight training experience, subscribe to the YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/flightreview. And if you would like to send us a question to potentially be answered on the show, send us an email to [email protected].

You're ready to start flight training, but you have concerns about your health and your medical eligibility to fly. Where do you go for help? We try to answer some of your questions here.

While Derek is not a doctor of AME (Aviation Medical Examiner), he's seen a lot of things while giving flight training and is able to provide some basic guidance. Medical issues can certainly be a touchy subject with complex solutions. We hope to dispel some incorrect assumptions and myths with this episode.

If you have any questions or concerns about your medical eligibility to fly airplanes, please be sure to consult with qualified medical personnel.

If you want to see videos of David's personal flight training experience, subscribe to the YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/flightreview. And if you would like to send us a question to potentially be answered on the show, send us an email to [email protected].

FAA Medical Certifications: https://www.faa.gov/pilots/medical/

In this episode of Flying With a Purpose, Derek talks about dealing with windy conditions on landing. We specifically discuss crosswind landings and changing wind conditions as the aircraft approaches the airport environment.

John & Leslie Caubble live in Kihei, Hawaii on the island of Maui. The host the Fly Maui aviation podcast, and have mentioned a number of times how their personal minimums had to change if they were ever going to get flight time in the islands. The crosswinds in Hawaii are some of the craziest in the world.

Jason Miller of The Finer Points recently made a couple of YouTube videos about how to learn to land in a crosswind.

Derek and David talk about the various techniques for landing in a crosswind, and about how to train for this difficult but critical skill.

Be sure to subscribe to the Fly Maui podcast and The Finer Points. Links to both are below.

If you want to see videos of David's personal flight training experience, subscribe to the YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/flightreview. And if you would like to send us a question to potentially be answered on the show, send us an email to [email protected].

Fly Maui: https://www.flymaui.com/

The Finer Points: https://www.learnthefinerpoints.com/

In this episode of Flying With a Purpose, we answer our first listener email. Joe is a student pilot currently pursuing his private pilot certificate, and he wonders if the pace of his flight training is too fast.

While certain tasks need to be learned early in flight training, like basic aircraft control and proper handling of emergency procedures, Derek suggests that some experiential-based flight instruction might help during the cross-country phase of the training. A cross-country flight to a location the pilot will typically fly to on their own once they are a certificated private pilot might help to slow the pace and make the training more relevant to the long-term mission.

We owe a huge thanks to Joe for sending us an email, and we hope we have answered the question effectively.

If you want to see videos of David's personal flight training experience, subscribe to the YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/flightreview. And if you would like to send us a question to potentially be answered on the show, send us an email to [email protected].

In this episode, Derek tells the story of the most scared he has ever been while flight instructing. Early in his flight instructing career, Derek and his private pilot student embarked on a mission-based lesson that would take them to a destination airport on one day, with a return to the home airport the next day. Circumstances came together such that they encountered a very low-fuel situation, and without immediate and decisive action, they would have faced a forced landing.

Everything turned out alright, but Derek certainly recalls this as one of the "never again" moments of his career. Many lessons were learned by both the student and the instructor.

If you want to see videos of David's personal flight training experience, subscribe to the YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/flightreview. And if you would like to send us a question to potentially be answered on the show, send us an email to [email protected].