Visual flight rules

My aha moment, that's a good question.

Probably when I flew the VFR corridor around Chicago, the Chicago skyline, it was at about 2,500 feet because we had to stay below the Class B airstrip.

and a goal for me was to fly over water and it was just so blue and it was just so beautiful and I'd never seen Chicago before so that was my first introduction to Chicago so that was just so that was so cool to me and we were flying to Oshkosh too and I was flying with my dad's buddies so it was special yeah it was really fun do

you reflect and I know I remember my solo flight what were your thoughts

Tell me about that.

Well,

like I said before, flying through the Chicago, the VFR corridor around the Chicago skyline was super cool, and I loved flying over the water, and I think, and I know flying a seaplane, it's like a two-day course, and it just sounds like, it sounds really cool, like, and very technical, and I think it would make me a better pilot, even if I'm not flying on the water, but...

Like, being able to land on the water and being able to maneuver if the water's not perfectly flat and clear.

people in aviation who are, whether they're passengers or pilots themselves, because it would make us more confident in ourselves.

Because you put a pilot in a situation where it's not a beautiful VFR weather day and you're flying by yourself and things are going wrong, can they handle it?

Air France, prime example of lack of stress orientation.

And that's what that six years will do prior to the level four.

If you don't have that, I don't know what you're going to do.

What we did in the old days, dead wrecking towards VFR.

That's it, right? It's all you can do if you lose all your stuff.

So a portable receiver, fly with Sentry, fly with Stratus, fly with something.

You can have this, no sense that we don't have to go through it all, just show it to you that it's here.

Again, one of the biggest things is to, when you teach the EFB, you have to teach it in pieces.

If you try to do everything all at once, including IFR, VFR, everything all at once, then it's challenging, right, because a student can't remember all that at once.

But one thing you can do as a first thing, the very first thing I would do with the EFB, make sure that the subscription, everything's good, that you have your charts downloaded, that goes without saying, that you have portable backup.

Yeah, what probably was a five-minute event, maybe eight minutes at most, because I think we were descending at like 1,500 or 2,000 foot a minute to get down into warmer air, and we lost 5,000.

It was probably a five-minute event total from when the airplane was covered in ice and us getting out of it, descending into a valley, out onto the plains, and breaking out in tie, VFR conditions, and good to go.

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And it suggests writing the five words on your need board or adding them to your checklist.

Then you run them at the key decision points pre-flight, pre-takeoff, cruise, pre-descent, and for VFR just before you enter the traffic pattern.

And that is how I use them in training before the flight and again during it.

Here is roughly what each P covers going off that same FAA guidance.