This website can be useful – SEE HOW THINGS WORKS

I have started ground school on RTF or RT. I have been concentrating on listening to the radio during the last few flying session i have done at Cranfield. Cranfield is a busy aerodrome and it has been hectic listening to the radio and executing all the other functions that a pilot must do:-

Aviate
Navigate
Communicate

In the above order. When i work on the computer at home, i listen to live ATC feeds. This helps me practice perform several tasks at the same. Listening to Air traffic control and concentrating on whatever i am doing on the computer. Listening to Live ATC feeds has been helpful in getting familiar with RT vocabulary and the variety of instructions given. At first it is bloody confusing – it has been a few days that i have been listening to these feeds and i am getting a good feel for it. It is one thing to listen in the comfort of my own home but it is all different when you are in the air for real and have to fly a plane. It is helping my ground school work though. I use this website for my feeds http://www.liveatc.net/

Well it has been ages since i wrote anything about pilot training. You will have noticed that i have been busy interviewing some amazing people, taking exams and having some fun. FEAR not, i have been working very hard studying Air Navigation for the past 2 weeks.

I made friends with Cristina and Mohammed of Oat Media who are based at Oxford Aviation flight training centre who have given me some very useful study aids – you can check their computer based training cd’s by clicking here

These cannnot be used to substitute the books as there is much more detailed content in books as always. They can help to summerise what is being learnt. For example at the end of each day, i will spend 30min to 1 hr watching various chapters on the cd rom in ref to what i read and studied that day. having used them now and not used them in the last 3 exams, i would suggest that if you doing self study, then these help – no need to get the one on Human performance.

some useful sites to bookmark
NAT
AIS
weatherjack
Met Office Aviation page
Metcheck

I read and studied the first 9 chapters which are about Basic Navigation Theory: – Continue reading ‘Ground School – Air Navigation’

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Continue reading ‘Human Performance and Limitations – The Basics’