Lecture 3: Learning to Fly

MIT 16.687 Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019
Instructor: Philip Greenspun, Tina Srivastava

This lecture introduced the details in acquiring the FAA Pilot Certificate.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

0:00 Introduction
0:19 Learning to Fly
1:06 A good trainer airplane
3:44 Glider: a better trainer airplane?
5:30 A good trainer helicopter
8:24 Private Pilot Certificate
11:03 FAA Pilot and Instructor Certification
13:46 Structure of regulations
16:26 61.15 & 61.16 Drugs & Alcohol
19:19 61.23 - Medical Cert.
20:59 61.51 - Logbook
21:31 61.56 - Flight Review
24:31 61.93 - Solo Cross-Country
26:45 61.107 - Flight Proficiency
29:31 Regulation versus Insurance
31:45 Questions?

[danielrock]

"A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I." —Pink Floyd

[Oxygen-jdhc]

very good videos very Clear Thanks Philip Greenspun, D>Tina Srisvastava
khaled from Saudi Arabia

[yonitube]

I won't to be nocyotist &you are give me good lectures

[Mortankhamun]

I'm loving this course so far, especially considering the price, but if you're open to some constructive criticism, it's a bit difficult to follow the slides when content is skipped as often as it is. If you don't want to cover something, you can leave it off the slide or direct the learner to study up on it on their own. If you instead have content on the slide but skip several bullet points without mentioning them at all (like on slide 11), it can be difficult to follow.

[Brocturnal]

Watched this entire lecture and I can conclude that I am able to fly!

[mangos]

Sorry man, drinking and driving anything is a sign of bad judgment at any age. I'm grateful for the seriousness given by the FAA.

[ianmichael]

Costs continue to increase. Thank you for printing all that "free" money during COVID.

This will create an economic recession unlike any other. Starting, approximately soon.

Will flight be alright...yes, transporting humans to new locations in short times will never end.

Tschuss.

[beaugalbraith]

The joke didn’t because I was trying to figure out what IFR meant, otherwise it would have been funny.

[savehumanity]

if You really love to fly ! here is a tip: go and search about islam and how a human being travelled though the skies and back to earth in on night