Beyond Flight Training

Earning the Private Pilot license is a great achievement—now, expand your initial schooling to go Beyond Flight Training. The real excitement begins when the flight instructor lets go of your hand and you’re left to set your own goals and create your own motivations.

Veteran pilot and instructor LeRoy Cook shows you what lies beyond flight school. In these pages, he’ll guide you into areas of aviation your instructors might not have mentioned. Things like planning your first cross-country flying vacation… sharpening your weather forecasting skills…or pursuing advanced endorsements and ratings.

Beyond Flight Training will show you how to:

• Grow as a pilot, beyond the check ride
• Purchase your first airplane
• Test-hop a new or rebuilt plane
• Organize or join a flying club
• Handle unfamiliar airports and airspace, not seen in training
• Take care of family and first-time passengers
• Cope with the changing seasons and marginal weather
• Upgrade to specialized flying, like high-performance, complex, tailwheel and aerobatic aircraft
• Prepare for advanced pilot certifications

In print for more than 30 years, this 4th Edition of Beyond Flight Training (