We Gotta Fly

9 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings

There are a lot of videos and training aids available online to help with flight training. There's not much that doesn't require visual aids or graphics to help learn or reinforce the required learning to take the FAA written exam. We Gotta Fly is designed not only for people that learn more from hearing material, but also for those that need to prepare for FAA exams while driving or working where watching a video may not be practical. If you're thinking about flight training or you're already on your way, come on along 'cause We Gotta Fly.

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Episodes

009: Instrument Systems

October 08, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MB

There's more to aircraft instrumentation than speed. There's altitude, heading, vertical speed, coordination and others. This episode covers what instruments we have and how they get the information they indicate. Even the most reliable and accurate instruments have some sort of error associated with them. We need to know when that can happen and how to interpret when corrections need to be applied.

008: Engines and Systems

October 04, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MB

When most people see an airplane, the wings and engine are the most obvious thing they see that makes it fly. What they dont see, are all of the other things that have to work along with that engine, not only to provide the needed thrust for flight, but the electricity for lights and navigation, heat for the cabin and defrost and others. There is also the landing gear, flight controls and other systems that need to be understood to keep your flight safe.

007: Aerodynamics 3

October 01, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MB

Driving down the road and making a right or left turn is easy. Turn the wheel in the direction you want to go, use the brake to reduce the speed, then the accelerator to speed up. There's a little more to making an airplane turn and keeping everything balanced and controlled. Forces in turns is another aerodynamic concept that has to be understood to be mastered.

006: Aerodynamics 2

September 27, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MB

Making an airplane fly is easy, keeping it flying when it get too slow is something that we all have to learn to do and avoid. Aerodynamics 2 is an introduction into stalls, stall recovery, spins and left turning tendencies. Understanding these forces makes dealing with them when we have to an easy exercise in mastering the sky as well as building on the knowledge required by the FAA.

005: Aerodynamics 1

September 24, 2021 04:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MB

You don't need to know how a clock works to tell time, but that rule doesn't apply to airplanes. Before learning how to control all of the forces involved in flight, we need to know what those forces are. Aerodynamics 1 begins describing the basic forces that makes a plane fly, how we use and control them and some of the terms that will be added to your new vocabulary.

004: Airframe and Related Systems

September 20, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MB

Airplanes have come a long way in 100 years. Controlling the way we move through the air involves many different forces and equipment to do it efficiently and safely. There are terms and components that are unique to aviation. Knowing what these are and an overview of how they all work together is important to making sense of the more detailed training that's to come.

003: Flight Schools and Training

September 17, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MB

Flight schools come in many different forms, from a 1 instructor operation to a college level course with many planes and instructors. This episode explains how schools are formatted; what to look for to find what fits your needs; things to be expected from students and instructors and how pilots are evaluated.

002: Discovery Flight

September 13, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MB

A lot of people would like to learn to fly but not sure where to start. For most people, it's a "Discovery Flight". This episode covers what that is, how to go about arranging one and what may be involved with your first "hands on" flight; what is involved in flight training; how much it can cost and ways to keep those costs under control.

001: We Gotta Fly - Intro

September 07, 2021 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.37 MB

I've been fascinated with flight all my life. I was fortunate to be able to make a career in Army Aviation as a Chinook Flight Engineer. Now I'm able to take my passion and share it in a way to help others to make their dream of flight a reality. There are a lot of videos and training aids available online to help with flight training. There's not much that doesn't require visual aids or graphics to help learn or reinforce the required learning to take the FAA written exam. We Gotta Fly is...