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Guided paths
Some of the guides are grouped into ordered paths. Each path takes a single subject and walks through it step by step, so you can start at the beginning and follow it through rather than picking articles at random.
- Path 19 guides
Decode the weather
Start with the raw reports and forecasts a pilot reads before a flight and learn to decode them in order, from the routine observation to the warnings that change a plan. Work through each one and the codes stop getting in the way.
Start the path - Path 25 guides
Duty, rest and flight time limits
The rules that decide how long you can work and how much rest you owe yourself, taken one layer at a time. This path walks from the basic definitions out to the cumulative limits and the standby rules that sit alongside them.
Start the path - Path 38 guides
Plan a VFR cross-country
The decisions behind a visual cross-country in the order you make them: the airspace you will cross, the minima you fly to, the fuel you carry, the alternate you keep in reserve, and the wind across the runway at each end.
Start the path - Path 47 guides
Fly an instrument approach
An instrument approach in the order you fly it, from reading the plate to the decision point and the go-around. Work through each step and the chart, the minima and the missed approach stop being a wall of abbreviations.
Start the path - Path 56 guides
Rules of the air
The everyday rules that govern how you share the sky: who gives way, how low you may fly, when you need oxygen or special VFR, and what you must carry. Plain-language explanations of where each rule comes from, not legalese.
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