This book is intended to be used in conjunction with Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook. The questions are organized to follow the presentation of material, section for section, as found in the Handbook.
Not only will this book prepare you for the Private Pilot Knowledge Exam, it will help you understand and absorb the knowledge necessary for you to fly safely.
This valuable one-stop workbook contains:
- 1,811 FAA Private Pilot Knowledge Exam and general aviation
knowledge questions.
- Questions organized to follow the layout of Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook so you can test your knowledge and comprehension in each subject area.
- Numerous weight-and-balance, performance, and flight planning problems.
- Color navigation charts.
- An FAA approved, Part 141 ground training syllabus for use in an FAA approved Part 141 Ground School.
Begin by reading a particular section from the Handbook. Then open this Workbook and answer the questions relevant to the section you just studied. Compare your answers with those found in this book.
If you answer a question incorrectly or would just like more information on the subject, you'll be directed to the precise page, column and paragraph in the Handbook where that information can be found. This form of programmed learning not only makes learning fun, it makes it more efficient, too.
Good news if you're an instructor teaching in a Part 141 FAA approved ground school. Included is an FAA Approved, Part 141 Ground School Syllabus. Using this syllabus in conjunction with Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook meets FAA requirements for an approved part 141 Ground School.
Chapter Listing:
- Airplane Components: Getting to Know Your Airplane
- Aerodynamics: The Wing is the Thing
- Engines: Knowledge of Engines is Power
- Electrical Systems: Know What's Watt
- Flight Instruments: Clocks, Tops & Toys
- Federal Aviation Regulations: How FAR can we go?
- Airport Operations: No Doctor Needed
- Radio Operations: Aviation Spoken Here
- Airspace: The Wild Blue, Green and Red Yonder
- Aviation Maps: The Art of the Chart
- Radio Navigation: The Frequency Flyer Program
- Understanding Weather: Looking for Friendly Skies
- Weather Charts and Briefings: PIREPS, Progs and METARS
- Flight Planning: Getting There From Here
- Airplane Performance Charts: Know Before You Go
- Weight and Balance: Let's Wait and Balance
- Pilot Potpourri: Neat Aeronautical Information
About the Author
Rod Machado is a professional speaker who travels across the United States and Europe delighting his listeners with upbeat and lively presentations. Machado truly loves mixing it up with the audience. His unusual talent for simplifying the difficult and adding humor to make the lessons stick has made him a popular lecturer both in and out of aviation.
Flying since 1970 and instructing since 1973, Rod has over 8,000 hours of flight time earned the hard way-one CFI hour at a time. Since 1977 he has taught hundreds of flight instructor revalidation clinics and safety seminars.
For six years, Rod wrote and co-anchored ABC's Wide World of Flying. He is AOPA's National CFI spokesman and a National Accident Prevention Counselor appointed by the FAA in Washington D. C. Rod is the flight instructor voice on Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2000, 2002 and 2004 and he wrote the flight lesson tutorials for the textbook that accompanies the software. He is also an instructor on Cessna's Computer-Based Private Pilot CD-ROM and the author of two books, four videos and two audio cassette albums. You can read his monthly column in AOPA Pilot magazine as well as in Flight Training Magazine.
Soft Cover
264 pages, Glossary, Indexed, Illustrated
Publisher
The Aviation Speaker's Bureau (2001)
