Required Ground and Flight Training Received and Logged

Pre-solo Flight Training FAR - 61.87 (d):

_ Preflight planning and preparation
_ Powerplant operation
_ Aircraft systems
_ Normal and crosswind takeoff
_ Normal and crosswind landing
_ Straight and level flight
_ Turns in both directions
_ Climbs and climbing turns
_ Airport traffic patterns including entry and departure procedures
_ Collision avoidance
_ Windshear avoidance
_ Wake turbulence avoidance
_ Descents, with and without turns, using high and low drag configurations
_ Flight at various airspeeds from cruise to slow flight
_ Stall entries from various flight attitudes and power combinations with recovery
initiated at the first indication of a stall, and recovery from a full stall
_ Emergency procedures and equipment malfunctions
_ Ground reference maneuvers
_ Approaches to a landing area with simulated engine malfunctions
_ Slips to a landing
_ Go-arounds
Private Pilot Ground Training FAR - 61.105:
_ Applicable Federal Aviation Regulations of this chapter that relate to private pilot
privileges, limitations, and flight operations
_ Accident reporting requirements of the NTSB
_ Use of the applicable portions of the AIM and FAA advisory circulars
_ Use of aeronautical charts for VFR navigation using pilotage, dead reckoning, and
navigation systems
_ Radio communications procedures
_ Recognition of critical weather situations from the ground and in flight
_ Windshear avoidance
_ Procurement and use of aeronautical weather reports and forecasts
_ Safe and efficient operation of aircraft, including collision avoidance, and
recognition and avoidance of wake turbulence
_ Effects of density altitude on takeoff and climb performance
_ Weight and balance computations
_ Principles of aerodynamics, powerplants, and aircraft systems
_ Stall awareness, spin entry, spins, and spin recovery techniques
_ Aeronautical decision making and judgment

Preflight action to include: How to obtain information on runway lengths at

airports of intended use, data on takeoff and landing distances, weather reports
and forecasts, fuel requirements, how to plan for alternatives if the planned flight
cannot be completed or delays are encountered

Private Pilot Flight and Ground Training - FAR 61.107:

_ Preflight preparation
_ Preflight procedures
_ Airport and seaplane base operations
_ Takeoffs, landings, and go-arounds
_ Performance maneuvers
_ Ground reference maneuvers
_ Navigation
_ Slow flight and stalls
_ Basic instrument maneuvers
_ Emergency Operations
_ Night operations