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  • 14 CFR § 91.1713 Instruction, checking, and evaluation.

    Instruction, checking, and evaluation. who provides flight training for the Mitsubishi MU-2B series airplane must meet the currency requirements of § 91.1715(c) before giving flight instruction for the Mitsubishi MU-2B series airplane; (3) Each flight instructor who provides ... experience or 50 hours providing simulator or flight training device instruction for the Mitsubishi MU-2B. (c) Checking and evaluation. No person may provide checking or evaluation for the Mitsubishi MU-2B series airplane unless that person meets the requirements…

  • Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Diving or Rolling Beyond the Vertical Plane

    toward a 30° or 40° angle of bank. As this is in progress, the pilot tilts his or her head forward, looks to the right or left, then immediately returns his or her head to an upright position. The instructor ... pilot should time the maneuver so the roll is stopped as the pilot returns his or her head upright. An intense disorientation is usually produced by this maneuver, and the pilot experiences the sensation of falling downward into the direction…

  • Chapter 8: Flight Instruments › Instrument Check › Heading Indicator

    attitude indicator corresponds to the relation of the aircraft to the real horizon. The operation of the heading indicator depends upon the principle of rigidity in space. The rotor turns in a vertical plane and fixed to the rotor ... instrument case and the aircraft revolve around the vertical axis of the gyro, the card provides clear and accurate heading information. Because of precession caused by friction, the heading indicator creeps or drifts from its set position. Among other factors…

  • 14 CFR § 91.129 Operations in Class D airspace.

    Operations in Class D airspace. with an operating control tower must establish and maintain two-way radio communications with the control tower, and thereafter as instructed by ATC while operating in the Class D airspace area; or (ii) From ... satellite airport without an operating control tower, must establish and maintain two-way radio communications with the ATC facility having jurisdiction over the Class D airspace area as soon as practicable after departing. (d) Communications failure. Each person who operates…

  • Glossary › Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum

    updated automated of hazardous weather within 150 nautical miles of selected VORs, available only in the conterminous 48 states. Head-up display (HUD). A special type of flight viewing screen that allows the pilot to watch the flight instruments ... other data while looking through the windshield of the aircraft for other traffic, the approach lights, or the runway. Heading. The direction in which the nose of the aircraft is pointing during flight. Heading indicator. An instrument which senses airplane…

  • Chapter 15: Airspace › Air Traffic Control and the National Airspace System › Operating Rules and Pilot/Equipment Requirements

    patterns. A pilot departing from the primary airport or satellite airport with an operating control tower must establish and maintain two-way radio communications with the control tower, and thereafter as instructed by ATC while operating in the Class ... airspace area. If departing from a satellite airport without an operating control tower, the pilot must establish and maintain two-way radio communications with the ATC facility having jurisdiction over the Class D airspace area as soon as practicable after…