Obtaining a pilot certificate is a license to learn but there are a few things we wish we knew before we passed our checkride. In this episode, we discuss what we wish we were taught during our flight training to fly safer and operate more efficiently.

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Cruise Flight:

What I wish I had learned as a student pilot:

1) Grass strip/soft field ops

2) Self-serve fuel

3) Right traffic pattern

4) Class B clearance

5) Landing with a tailwind

6) Courtesy car

7) Aircraft handling near max gross weight

8) Spin training

9) Real-life diversion

10) Visit a control tower

11) Operating out of an FBO

12) Marshaling Signals

13) non-towered airfield

After Landing Checklist:

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Tom – Air Text – https://goairtext.com

Carl – https://www.twahotel.com/

Bill – https://www.aerographics.com/

Leslie – Wild Wonder: What Nature Teaches Us About Slowing Down and Living Well by Stephen Proctor

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James – Bakers School of Aeronautics

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