Basic Flight Lessons

Prerequisites for VFR and IFR courses

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These lessons apply to both VFR and IFR flight. As such, they will later be combined with VFR and IFR modules that will lead to respective pilot ratings.

Lesson# - Lesson name - Link to lesson - Author

Drafted Lessons

131 - Choosing a Call Sign on VATSIM - ChoosingACallsignOnVATSIM by MichaelRoche
133 - Choosing an Aircraft Equipment Code - ChoosingEquipmentCode by MarkRichards
201 - Basic Meteorology Concepts - BasicMeteorology by PeterGrey
202 - Interpreting METARs and TAFs - METARSandTAFS by AaronFlodin
203 - Understanding ATIS - UnderstandingATIS by AndyAlexander
204 - Winds, Clouds, Ice, Thunderstorms, How to fly through or around them - FlyingInWeather by NikolasWagenknecht
211 - Transponders and Squawk Codes - TranspondersAndSquawkCodes by AaronFlodin
212 - VFR or IFR? - VfrOrIfr by KyleRamsey
216 - How High to Fly - MEAs (MEAs and altitude selection) - HowHightoFly by EricStearns
218 - Airplanes, Altitudes, and Airspeeds (MSL, ASL, STD pressure, IAS, TAS, high alt flight) - AirplanesAirspeedsAltitudes by EricStearns
221 - Airport Diagrams - AirportDiagrams by DaveWild
223 - Runway Selection - RunwaySelection - AaronFlodin
226 - Destination Airport Runways and Services (long enough? Got gas? Avail Inst procedures?) - DestinationAirportRwyServices by NikolasWagenknecht
231 - Airport ATC Procedures (CD, GND, TWR) - AirportATC by EricStearns
232 - APP, DEP, CTR Positions, Responsibilities - AppDepCtrPositionsResponsibilities - by CraigMerriman & MattChase
233 - Airliners vs. GA Airplanes at the Airport - AirlinersVsGAAirplanes by EricStearns
236 - Who is Spec Ops, What are they doing, and can you do the same thing? - SpecOps by KyleRamsey
241 - Starting Up at the Departure Airport - Where and what to have done prior to connecting - StartUpAtAirport by KyleRamsey

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