• https://youtu.be/Bst5bFSqXkA

Base airport: KDKX

Instructor is John Burt, Naval Aviator: 7 Years, Airline Pilot: 12 Years, CFI: 36 Years, Flight Experience: 20,000+ hours

• Obtain the weather, copy it down on paper / notes / knee board.
• Set your radio with weather on one flip/flop and comms on the other.
• Set the altimeter to field altitude, and check the pressure reading matches the weather you just copied down.
• Put the check list away when you taxi, don't look at the list while driving around.
• Check your brakes, and the parking break.
• Right has the right of way.
• Nose wheel right on the yellow line all the time.
• Hand on the throttle and controls all the time while taxiing.
• Instructors will let big things slide if you do the little things right.
• Take your time with the mag checks, do not accidentally turn the engine to OFF. (can do bad things)
• Flight controls three cycles to be sure free and correct.
• Artificial horizon piper right on the horizon.
• Set your navigation radio to put in the VOR frequency, center it with a TO indication.
• Directional to magnetic compass.
• Birds will avoid landing lights
• Use every inch of the runway, right to the edge, you never know when you're going to need it all.
• One hand on the yoke, one on the throttle.
• Left leg, put it down on the floor during climb, you only need right rudder and that will emphasize it.
• Trimming the airplane is everything
• Trim is a poor mans autopilot. You work a whole lot less if you trim properly
• Adverse yaw, so rudder the direction you want to turn. Once established, rudder out. Don't be bashful with the rudder.
• Always work the trim. There should be no pressure on the stick.
• 500 feet per minute descent. Be at pattern altitude when you enter it.
• Do the simulator every day. CFI has things for the student to do.
• Read the section on adverse yaw. Understand adverse yaw from day one to be a better pilot
• For landing: Push, Pull, Turn, Trim
• Straight in approaches are BAD, have had two mid air collisions right at the intersection of base / straight in.
• After touchdown, hold the yoke all the way back and tap the breaks. Keep the elevator pulled back to add drag and help slow the plane down aerodynamically.
• Never read a checklist while taxiing.
• Flow pattern to clean up: flaps up, back to taxi, lean mixture one inch, carb heat in, landing lights off, reset trim. 1,2,3,4,5: 1) flaps up 2) mixture lean 1 inch 3) carb heat off 4) landing lights off 5) reset trim