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Summary: Learn about cross country flights in this free aviation video.
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Rodney Fielitz Rodney Fielitz has been a certified flight instructor for 30 years. He also pilots drop planes for parachuting. He has been flying since 1973. Contact him at ... read more
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Questions & AnswersOn behalf of Expert Village my name is Rodney Fielitz I'm a certified flight instructor in Cottonwood, AZ and I'm here to give you the basics of what it takes to become a pilot. This phase of the flight is probably the most fun flying is the cross country flying this is where the student and the instructor go out and fly, where you want to go you plan it out and what we call sectionals. These sectionals are broke down into different parts of the United States. Each area has their own little sectional on these sectionals it looks like a bunch of, it's going to be hard to understand for a while but we will teach you how to read these. They show you airports, airways, and different markings on here it doesn't show you like the town and roads as much as detailed atlas would but it does have roads and towns in it. During our ground school if we teach you how to read sectional maps and then we start working into ground school and to how to plot a course. And this again it's one of the fun parts where you actually get to go out and fly somewhere and go have some fun. Also part of the flying is called an E6B computer we call them the confuser because it's kind of confusing on here you can do all kinds of items on here, you can start taking how far you're going to go, your distance, your times you can calculate everything on here. And it helps you with your cross country how long is it going to take you to point A to point B, how much fuel am I going to use and then on the back side of this it has a wind chart. Which is even a little more confusing but it also tells you the heading that you have to fly. We also have different kinds of headings; we have two headings, mag heading and all these have to do with compass the variations out here we have 13 degrees variations between north and magnetic north. So if we sit there and fly a magnetic heading we're not going to get to the right place, we have to take these variations for deviation wind and all this. This is all part of the fun of learning to fly airplanes, it is able to go somewhere and get there quicker than you would by driving, it is still probably cheaper than driving now that the gas prices are higher. For an example for me flying over to Los Vegas is it takes a little more than an hour and a half in an airplane, and I'll burn about 18 gallons of fuel. If I drive over there it's about 5 hours to drive there and I'm probably going to burn just as much fuel in my airplane as I will car gas. But then private lessons again will teach you how to go cross country and to do it safely and to be able to land at any airport that has control towers or non control towers safely and be able to return.
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