Private Pilot Flight Maneuvers

The purpose of this manual is to help in the explanation, visualization and execution of the flight maneuvers required for the Private Pilot Practical Flight Test. Students preparing for their oral and flight test will find this manual helpful.

Any pilot preparing for a Biennial Flight Review (BFR), can use this manual as a refresher on maneuvers that you may not have executed in quite some time. Flight Instructor applicants and Certified Flight Instructors will find this manual a beneficial teaching aid.

The manual breaks down each maneuver required on the Private Practical Test in six parts:

1. FAA objective for the maneuver.
2. FAA completion standards.
3. General description of the maneuver.
4. Detailed step by step textual description on how to execute the maneuver as recommended by the FAA.
5. References to FAA publications where the information was compiled from.
6. Detailed graphic profiles summarizing the procedure in a visual format. Also included are airspeeds, pitch attitudes, bank angles, power settings and configurations for a Cessna 172P plus room to add the same information for up to three additional aircraft.

• Certified Flight Instructors can use this teaching aid as an excellent resource for preflight briefings.
• Only detailed maneuvers manual with a spiral binding. Easy to lay book open flat in the classroom or in the cockpit.
• Several flight schools use this manual as a standardization tool for all their instructors and students.
• There is no other source that details the Private Pilot Maneuvers like this book.

• ORAL SUBJECTS 
  
  • certificates and documents 
  • airworthiness requirements 
  • weather information 
  • cross country flight planning 
  • national airspace system 
  • performance and limitations 
  • operation of systems 
  • aeromedical factors 
  • preflight inspection 
  • cockpit management 
  • radio communication and ATC light signals 
  • airport, runway, and taxiway markings and lighting
  • pilotage and dead reckoning 
  • spin awareness
  • radio communications, navigation systems, and radar services 
  • systems malfunction 
  • emergency equipment and survival gear 
  • night preparation 
• PREFLIGHT PROCEDURES 
  
  • engine starting 
  • taxiing 
  • before takeoff check 
• TAKEOFF, LANDING, GO-AROUNDS, & TRAFIC PATTERN 
  
  • normal takeoff and climb 
  • crosswind takeoff and climb 
  • short field takeoff 
  • soft field takeoff and climb 
  • traffic pattern operation 
  • normal approach and landing 
  • crosswind approach and landing 
  • short field approach and landing 
  • soft field approach and landing 
  • forward slip to landing 
  • go-around • PERFORMANCE MANEUVERS 
  • steep turns 
• • GROUND REFERENCE MANEUVERS 
  
  • rectangular course 
  • S-turns across a road 
  • turns around a point 
• • NAVIGATION 
  
  • intercepting and tracking a VOR, or GPS radial 
  • intercepting and tracking NDB bearings 
  • intercepting and tracking navigational systems profiles 
  • diversion o lost procedures 
• •SLOW FLIGHT & STALLS 
  
  • maneuvering during slow flight 
  • power off stalls 
  • power on stalls 
• • BASIC INSTRUMENT MANEUVERS 
  
  • straight and level flight 
  • constant airspeed climbs 
  • constant airspeed descents 
  • turns to headings 
  • recovery from unusual flight attitudes 
• • EMERGENCY OPERATION / POST FLIGHT PROCEDURES 
  
  • emergency approach and landing
  • after landing, parking and securing