The syllabus in brief
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Advanced Stalling
Advanced Recoveries
Advanced Turning
Advanced Co-ordination
Advanced Circuits
The D&D Experience
Advanced PFL's
Elaborate Emergencies
For more information contact Nigel Willson.
Advanced PPL Course
So why do an advanced PPL course?
Your Private Pilots Licence training has taught you well.
You have proved yourself to be a safe and competent pilot, operating the aircraft safely within it's design limits.
In fact, your training (by design) has kept you well within the flight envelope of the aircraft you fly.
But even training aircraft are capable of more than you probably realise.
For the seasoned pilot, it is also easy to fall into the world of complacency, even though you are required to do one hours dual training every two years (minimum).
For both these reasons, Anglian Flight Centres have an "Advanced PPL Course". You can take as much or as little of it as you like, although by doing the full course, you'll be following a structured syllabus.
After completion of the course, you'll gain a certificate, and will have a great deal more confidence in your piloting ability.
So why not:
- brush off the cobwebs from those little used skill areas
- have the chance to fly the aircraft in those corners of the flight envelope you won't have been near for some time (if ever)
- transmit for real on 121.5 to find out just how friendly and professional Distress & Diversion are
- practice some elaborate emergencies
- learn alternative well proven procedures
- improve your decision making skills from exposure to highly experienced pilot instructors
- learn and practice "real world" stuff that works - tried and tested
If you like the look of this course, then don't forget we also offer formation training.
For more information take a look at the expanded syllabus below, then contact Nigel Willson who designed the course.
- Straight & Level, power off stall and minimum height loss recovery technique
- Base turn stall and minimum height loss recovery technique
- Full slap stall and minimum height loss recovery technique
- Go-around stall and minimum height loss recovery technique
- Dynamic stall and minimum height loss recovery technique
- Severe attitude recovery experience
- Spin recovery: techniques on type. The don'ts as well as the do's
- 60 degrees and beyond: when to use and when not to
- Lazy 8: improve your general coordination skills
- Chandelle: The blind valley exit move for non-aerobatic aircraft
- Short/Soft field take-off and landing: including those little tips that will save your life
- Precision landings: brush up on those touchdown skills. Land where you want to, not where the a/c wants to
- Crosswind landings: crab method or wing down? Which one's for you? Try the "other" way
- Bad Weather circuits revisited: best techniques, including advice on when to use them
- Side-slipping: Learn when, and how to enter, maintain and exit from a side-slip safely.
- Curved Approach: practice how, when, where and why to do this type of approach
The Distress & Diversion Experience
- Lost: what to do both with and without radio contact
- Mayday/Pan Emergency: practice for real on 121.5
- The Speechless Code: learn how to use this invaluable aid on 121.5
Advanced Practice Forced Landings
- Constant Aspect technique: learn the RAF method that quite simply - works!
- EFATO: practice makes perfect
- Emergency Descents: Standard methods plus flight at Vne
- Partial Power: go/no-go decisions, flight at minimum speed
- Stuck Power: throttle ice/disconnected throttle
- Disconnected ailerons/elevator: experience and learn how to control the aircraft on limited controls
- Asymmetric flap
- Full instrument failure: fly and land the aircraft by feel and outside references alone