Private Pilot Tutorial 15: Navigation (Part 1 of 4)

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This FREE ground school lesson is the first in our four-part series on aircraft navigation, and it will teach you how to competently navigate the National Airspace System.

[@mikefromflorida8357]

Twenty minutes of non-stop good information with no damn music to have to listen to. Wonderful.

[@dsbennett]

I learned all this in high school in 1967. But because of ignorance and bad advice and misleading video in 7th grade and being a numbskull, I missed out on several opportunities of becoming a commercial pilot and became an army cook instead. Dumb. So now I'm learning it all over again so I can try to become a Virtual Airline pilot before I die. Something's better than nothing.

[@TomaszDurlej]

Past is past, never regret Your decisions from past. What if you get fatal accident only because you become pilot?

[@jamesallen9032]

@@TomaszDurlej YOLO

[@latanieszyb3809]

I was in the same situation, I was in the navy. I've dreamed of flying all my life. at the age of 75 I signed up for the gliding club, and after a year I fly on my own. beautiful sport!

[@tayyabkhan2228]

are you a good cook?

[@solarpoweredafricanvegansp178]

I did the same in school In 2005, then joined the NAVY and became a Gunner’s Mate for 15 years. At age 36, I got out in December 8th 2023 and in January 8th 2024, I started ground school. I’ll be taking my PPL written exam. My goal is to be a Cargo or Airline pilot 👨🏿‍✈️. Prefer Cargo but will take Airline if need be. Let’s accomplish our goals!

[@Maxmilion6004]

So to take this 20 minutes and break it down. You plot your waypoints, then you calculate the deviation and adjust your compass heading. Then you add the weatger and winds and based on direction your ground speed is either increased or decreased. Which makes sense depending on why dlying to europe is slower one way. But then you add the deviation effect based on the winds.

[@botbeats1]

Excellent training tool. GREAT JOB!

[@Jerichoom]

Amazing, that formula at the end was exactly what I was trying to formulate myself and you just had it handy! Many thanks

[@jamesallen9032]

Perfect

[@indepviewpt]

This is a good explanation, thanks.

[@mrinalkumar5394]

Excellent video. Everything explained beautifully

[@jimb5051]

great video, a lot of info, keep it coming.

[@adamspringer2442]

That was awesome! Thank you!

[@TheWarnickthree]

On your compass it shows East as 15 and it also shows south-southeast as 15. 8 minutes and 42 seconds. Look at your compass.

[@ihabhakkar776]

Maybe true North variation from magnetic North

[@doubleemcastillano464]

@@ihabhakkar776 If that were the case the entire compass would be off by a consistent angle. The compass is indeed off by a margin but whomever created the image added the 15 heading twice.

[@ExtremeBlueSky]

Did you catch the mistake on the compass rose slide? ON the compass rose the 90 degree position is incorrectly labeled as 15. Everything else is correct.

[@escanorsama5403]

I only wtched 53 sec and I am already grateful. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial

[@jakobmullner8254]

Very informative video. Thank you :)

[@dannyfivefifty]

Great for refreshing on old pilots memory??

[@serg4753]

Thanks a lot!

[@Sky_Burger88]

iPad Questions!🛩️ I'm looking at buying an iPad for GA navigation. 1. Is it necessary to get a cellular iPad model or will a Wifi only suffice? 2. Favorite flight apps.. Do you prefer ForeFlight others?

[@anthonygutermuth8915]

I’m a student myself, but I was told that a cellular model has built in GPS that functions even without cellular service, and the non cellular models don’t. I went with the cellular because it gives me options do track weather and other variables in flight, assuming I have service. Fair skies and tailwinds!

[@TenMinuteTrips]

It is NOT necessary to buy a cellular iPad. I have a WiFi only iPad and use a Stratus 3 ADS-B “in” receiver which connects via WiFi for GPS location. A Sentry will work just as well. If you don’t want or need ads-b traffic (why wouldn’t you), a Bad Elf or other brand of external GPS receiver works well too. The point being, you don’t need to buy a cellular iPad.

[@cherfieldm]

Thanks for sharing I'm not a pilot, but since a child I really dream of flying an airplane.

[@enriquemoliterno538]

Hi! Well, we're two now... My dream since I was a kid, but life takes us on paths that make it difficult for that dream to come true. FSX is my redemption :-)

[@LikedGecko315]

Good luck! Been trying to learn as much as I can from KZbin and X-Plane

[@marcdemmon3020]

Why. Don’t they teach practical things in high school

[@ahmadkhedir8856]

LikedGecko 315 wow.. are you taught your self?

[@knownassociate4273]

after watching this i think i am to stupid lol

[@firstdayonline]

Thank you!

[@ahmadtheaviationlover1937]

I love aviation!

[@crackerjack3762]

Ahmad Sayyed ME TOO!!

[@pureblood1978x]

The compass rose at 9.25 shows east as 150°. 150° appears twice.

[@doubleemcastillano464]

I just commented this before searching to see if anyone else noticed.

[@doubleemcastillano464]

I'm also happy that you noticed the numbers are slightly off. I noticed they were a little out of place and stopped taking notes.

[@sharanshtyagi6192]

Nice useful

[@MonikaSassy]

I think this is the best explanation I ever seen from ground school, but my Brian is 🤯🤯🤯🤯 I don’t know what to do to put all this info in my Brian 😢

[@dsbennett]

Write it and then tell it to someone. Teaching is a great way to learn.

[@MonikaSassy]

⁠I will be trying that, I think it’s another way to learn.

[@crazypilot4017]

Is there something going on with your website? I can't log on for some reason to watch more of your videos and to take the quizzes... Great video too!

[@1abc219]

thank you

[@doubleemcastillano464]

They messed up the Compass Rose. The illustrator placed a 15 where there should be 09 and another 15 where there should be one. So East would be a heading of 150 according to the illustrator. So those that see this and are taking very specific notes, disregard the illustration of the Compass Rose.

[@sovandey]

Not sure why after 6 its 15 degrees on the campus and 15 degrees after 12 mark I think it should've be 9 after 6 Video time 8min36 sec campus is shown

[@Scott_Hauck]

good eye

[@tangomechanic]

9:29 I do not understand TC being 065 while Recip 245. I thought they are both related to 360. Will appreciate an explanation. Thank you.

[@mertgarbonite5188]

On a circle the reciprocal line is 180 degrees away from the initial course so 65+180=245. Just like runways are 18 and 36 depending on their end, 180 degrees different.

[@kiliweskundla]

East is least(subtract)

[@Richpopballa]

The Latitude and Longitude description is incorrect. Longitude runs north to south and the latitude runs east to west.

[@jmartwork86]

Its still really confusing the way thats shown and the way it is stated

[@tammyhaber4936]

I thought this too, She explained it in a confusing way. She could just have said the horizontal lines are latitude which measure North & South. Vertical lines are longitude which measure East & West

[@steveramos1452]

She is correct. Latitudes North or South OF the Equator.

[@ExtremeBlueSky]

** Did you catch the mistake on the compass rose slide? ON the compass rose the 90 degree position is incorrectly labeled as 15. Everything else is correct.

[@flavinh0willian]

I loved that

[@ahmadtheaviationlover1937]

I found it really difficult to understand it

[@ahmadtheaviationlover1937]

J Thorsson the magnetic and true headings/bearings and calculating wind correction angle

[@JaseCJay]

@@ahmadtheaviationlover1937 isogonic lines represent magnetic variation from true north.. depending on your heading you either add the difference (west of an isogonic line) or subtract it (east of an isogonic line) to or from your heading to get true heading..

[@ahmadtheaviationlover1937]

@@JaseCJay not true heading, magnetic heading you mean

[@JaseCJay]

@@ahmadtheaviationlover1937 Isogonic lines - Lines drawn across aeronautical charts to connect points having the same magnetic variation. ... East of this line, the magnetic pole is to the west of the geographic pole and a correction must be applied to a compass indication to get a true direction.

[@JaseCJay]

a bit better than my explanation... add or subtract to/from your magnetic heading to get true depending on whether you're east or west of an isogonic line.. east is least (-), west is best (+)

[@monceau2]

This is word by word, figure by figure, copied from the FAA handbook. Not saying it's a bad thing, but credit should be given, and students should have the possibility to read along.

[@Abcdefghijk920]

Bruno Malek noticed that too when I started reading it last night.... this all sounds reallllly familiar

[@fly-in-life]

Longitude is N to S and Latitude in W to E, why did you put them backwards?

[@fly-in-life]

Thank you @@Dr_Midnight777 your explanation is very clear, if I didn't know a little more about navigation, this video definitely draws me in confusion and make things harder to understand.

[@doubleemcastillano464]

My thoughts exactly. You should point them in the direction they flow. I understand what they tried to do, they tried to put them on the lines I guess but it would make it more difficult to visualize which sucks because they had a visualization right there in front of us lol.

[@blue_beephang-glider5417]

Parallels of latitude and longitude explained one way but labeled on the globe the opposite... ??? 4:50 min in.

[@dirkl9652]

Look at the arrows, The diagram and labels are correct.

[@foreverprincess2036]

Qlp Pokk~3. =uy

[@KingMontaQ000]

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