The GPS that goes blank fifty miles from your destination and the pilotage skills you forgot you needed
What to do when your GPS dies mid-flight: a step-by-step guide to navigating with pilotage, dead reckoning, and a paper chart.
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Building the navigation log from scratch and the pencil-and-paper flight plan that proves you can fly without the iPad
Learn to build a VFR navigation log by hand, from true course to fuel burn, with a step-by-step walkthrough.
PatternPicking your visual checkpoints and the pilotage skill that keeps you on course when the GPS screen goes black
Learn how to pick effective visual checkpoints for VFR cross-country navigation and master pilotage skills every pilot needs.
PatternThe headwind that ate your fuel reserve and the ground speed check that saves your cross-country
Learn how headwinds silently eat your fuel reserve on cross-country flights and how a simple ground speed check keeps you safe.
PatternBuilding your first navigation log from scratch and the thirteen columns that turn a line on a sectional into a flyable cross-country
Learn how to build a VFR navigation log from scratch with all thirteen columns explained step by step.
PatternBuilding your nav log from scratch and why every box on that form matters before your solo cross-country
Learn how to build a VFR navigation log step by step, from true course to fuel planning, for your solo cross-country and private pilot checkride.
PatternThe pilotage and dead reckoning cross-country and why your DPE wants to see you navigate without GPS
How to plan and fly a pilotage and dead reckoning cross-country, the skill your DPE will test on your private pilot checkride.
PatternPicking checkpoints that actually work and the art of not getting lost on your solo cross-country
Learn how to pick VFR cross-country checkpoints that are unique, visible from altitude, and on your course line.
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