Lecture 3: Learning to Fly

MIT Private Pilot Ground School, IAP 2019 Instructor: Philip Greenspun, Tina Srivastava View the complete course: YouTube Playlist: This lecture introduced the details in acquiring the FAA Pilot Certificate. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at 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 & Drugs & Alcohol 19:19 - Medical Cert. 20:59 - Logbook 21:31 - Flight Review 24:31 - Solo Cross-Country 26:45 - Flight Proficiency 29:31 Regulation versus Insurance 31:45 Questions?