Webinars

Jeff Goin takes you through a typical journey of learning to fly a powered paraglider, including the options, costs, challenges, and capabilities. He'll include choices that improve the fun and reduce your chances of the bad things. The incredible capability is contrasted with how to avoid the dark side, including some fun anecdotes along the way. Myths will be busted and questions will be answered from a secret airport location deep in the Green Swamp of Central Florida while beating off snakes, alligators, and fire ants.

Chapters Manager John Egan provides insights on the necessary tasks associated with the secretary and treasurer positions, as well as tips on chapter management and critical due dates for chapter-related events.

When performing an annual inspection, what should an A&P mechanic with inspection authorization do when they find something significant in the aircraft's maintenance records that conflicts with what the aircraft owner says? Who should the A&P/IA believe, the owner or the logbooks? Like many things in aviation, the answer is it depends. Maintenance expert and A&P/IA Mike Busch explores this thorny issue with the help of two real-life case studies whose outcomes were quite different.

The introductory lesson or discovery flight is a common marketing tool used by flight schools to introduce potential customers to the wonders of flight. It can be a make or break moment resulting in either an enthusiastic student or someone who will never set foot in an airplane again. In this FAA Safety Team WINGS award webinar, a longtime CFI tells his fellow instructors what he does to make this a positive experience, and explains to potential students what they should expect.

Temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) are a fact of flying. John Townsley will discuss the more common TFRs that we may encounter on a coast-to-coast cross-country flight. Some TFRs can appear with no notice, others may show up with lots of warning, and some are charted. John discusses strategies we can use to learn when and where TFRs might be along our route of flight. He will explain what pilots should do to avoid a violation, including some gotchas that have tripped up many pilots and the types of violations and enforcement. This webinar will also include a brief discussion of where ADS-B Out will be required after January 1, 2020, including some of the benefits and pitfalls of that not-so-new requirement.

Gordon Penner, master CFI-Aerobatics and FAA Gold Seal instructor, presents a simple and practical description of stalls and spins as commonly covered in the emergency maneuver training (EMT) course. Understanding these simple principles will help you to avoid an unintentional stall and spin.

Gordon Penner, master CFI-Aerobatics and FAA Gold Seal instructor, presents a simple and practical description of how critical flying within weight and center of gravity (CG) range is to controllability of the airplane. He will provide examples of how being out of CG range can put your aircraft out of control.