Flying at Non-Towered Airports: Training Videos!

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Flying at Non-Towered Airports: Training Videos!

Postby John.com » Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:34 am

Some good training videos for flying at Non-Towered Airports!

1. Non-Towered Airport Challenges (5:40)
2. Non-Towered Airports: Safe Approach (11:15)
3. Non-Towered Airports: Traffic Patterns (12:16)

PilotWorkshop.com: Flying at Non-Towered Airports

This affects most of us most of the time!

I really recommend taking the time to watch/listen to these. They are not videos per se but rather 'presentations', so are less punitive on your bandwidth!

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Re: Flying at Non-Towered Airports: Training Videos!

Postby tka » Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:08 am

Non towered?? Have been flying 40 years and have never heard them called that. I prefer "uncontrolled airfields".
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Re: Flying at Non-Towered Airports: Training Videos!

Postby John.com » Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:55 am

tka wrote:Non towered?? Have been flying 40 years and have never heard them called that. I prefer "uncontrolled airfields".
This was purely in keeping with the title of the training modules, which are clearly USA-based!

Call them what you want, I simply hope that you found some benefit in a refresher on the subject!

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Re: Flying at Non-Towered Airports: Training Videos!

Postby tka » Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:22 am

It is great that that you take the time to connect pilots with information but it must be relevant i.e. Icao based as our CARS are tied to ICAO. I had a look at one of the presentations and as you say, this is clearly USA based and I believe that SA pilots should not take the info on board.
The only good advise was listen out in advance and switch your landing lights and strobes on - which all pilots should know from their initial training. But all the weather and coms aids/ acronyms and joining at 45 deg on downwind etc have no place in SA aviation.
I am not trying to jump on you but it is confusing enough for pilots with all the info available so lets not bring the FAA into it aswell.

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