In his volunteer capacity as an FAA Safety Team Lead Representative, Prof. H. Paul Shuch has provided via this website thousands of pages of aviation training material, and several dozen PowerPoint presentations. This material is freely offered on a strictly non-commercial basis. Pilots, students, and flight instructors are encouraged to view and widely distribute this material in the interest of improving flying skills and reducing accidents, provided that no charge is made for viewing the materials, or attending classes, meetings, or safety seminars in which they may be presented.
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- Introductory Material
- If You Can Drive, You Can Fly
- Stepping Up to Light Sport [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Category & Class: adding privileges under Sport Pilot rules [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Navigating the FAA IACRA Website [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Where's My Flying Car? [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Safety Seminars
- Mastering Radio Communications [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Tips for Great Landings in an LSA [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- What's the Spin on Stalls? [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Precession Precision [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Reviewing the Flight Review [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Anatomy of a Near Midair Collision [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- How to Fly a Perfect Traffic Pattern [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Airspace Ace: Sampling the Alphabet Soup [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Safe and Successful Operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- I'm SAFE: Reviewing the Pilot's Preflight Inspection Checklist [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Gauges to Glass: Transitioning to 21st Century Avionics [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Weather or Not: a brief review of pilot's meteorological decision making [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Preflight Delight: Look Before You Launch [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Four Fundamentals of Flight: breaking it down to the basics [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Get Out Of Dodge! Preparing for cross-country flight [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- VFR Navigation: Three Keys to the Kingdom [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Charting Your Course: Deciphering the VFR Sectional Aeronautical Chart [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Less Than Ideal: Short Field, Soft Field, and Obstacle Operations [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- First Flight, No Fright: All About Discovery Flights and Introductory Lessons [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- How to fail your FAA Knowledge Test: snatching defeat from out of the jaws of victory [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Adventures in Examining: one DPE confesses all [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Staying Current: where rules and skills combine [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Crew Resource Management [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Transportation Security and You [Pending as an EAA Webinar]
- Transportation Security and You [Pending as an EAA Webinar]
- Stabilized Approaches and Go-Arounds [Pending as an EAA Webinar]
- Operation at Towered Airports [Pending as an EAA Webinar]
- Aircraft Maintenance and Ownership
- Evektor SportStar Preflight Inspection [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- LSA Maintenance (who can do what to whom) [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- LSA Documentation (what's in your logbooks?) [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Care and Feeding of the Rotax 912 [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Aircraft Weight and Balance [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- How to Buy a Used LSA [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- The Ins and Outs of ADS-B [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- ADS-B Revisited: the 2020 odyssey continues [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- What TBO Really Means: or, why I bought a whole new airplane [Also viewable as an EAA Webinar]
- Fast Track to Experimental [Pending as an EAA Webinar]
- Keeping Your Rotax 912 Alive [Pending as an EAA Webinar]
- AvSport Flight Briefings
- Lesson 1: Basic Flight
- Lesson 2: Airspeed Control
- Lesson 3: Slow Flight and Stalls
- Lesson 4: The Traffic Pattern
- Lesson 5: Radio Communications
- Lesson 6: Takeoffs and Landings
- Lesson 7: Steep Turns and Slips
- Lesson 8: Ground Reference Maneuvers
- Lesson 9: Takeoff and Landing Practice
- Lesson 10: Emergency Procedures
- Lesson 11: Short and Soft Fields
- Lesson 12: Weight and Balance
- Remote Pilot Course Materials
Click here to download Training Documents (Portable Document Format)
If you can drive, you can fly!
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