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6 Things to Know Before Launching Professional Flight Training

From trimming to time studying between lessons, a professional pilot details what he wished he knew before his flight training.

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Key Takeaways:

  • Airline captain Sam Weigel advises new pilots to develop the habit of constantly trimming early in their flight training, as it makes flying much easier.
  • He also stresses that go-arounds should be considered a normal and acceptable outcome of an approach, not a failure, and can prevent dangerous landings.
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Looking back over the progression of professional flight training, there are a few things that airline captain Sam Weigel now wishes that he knew then.

This week, Weigel details six of those.

Sam Weigel

Sam Weigel has been an airplane nut since an early age, and when he's not flying the Boeing 737 for work, he enjoys going low and slow in vintage taildraggers. He and his wife live west of Seattle, where they are building an aviation homestead on a private 2,400-foot grass airstrip.

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