Whether you fly for pleasure, business, or a career in aviation, the Private Pilot certificate with the Instrument Rating is your ticket into the full spectrum of the airspace system — it is the key to maximizing the utility of a general aviation aircraft. This book provides the information you need to learn how to fly under both visual flight rules (VFR) and instrument flight rules (IFR). The most comprehensive pilot textbook available, The Pilot's Manual: Access to Flight provides efficient training methodology that helps you graduate with a truly successful personal transportation solution.

Technically Advanced Aircraft (TAA) demand a level of understanding and functional proficiency as never before. This breakthrough course is simply the most efficient and comprehensive way to prepare for flight in TAA and today’s increasingly complex flight environment. In addition, chapter review questions will help prepare you for the FAA Private and Instrument Knowledge Tests.

The Private and Instrument curriculums are integrated in this training approach, so pilots flying TAA learn to intrinsically manage the combined skills of aircraft control, task management, systems management, and the complex flight environment of today’s busy airspace; a different approach from traditional maneuver-based flight training.

Foreword by Cirrus Design co-founders Alan and Dale Klapmeier. Includes more than 800 full-color illustrations. Review questions conclude each chapter. Hardcover, 8-3/8" x 10-7/8", 816 pages.

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The Pilot's Manual: Access to Flight Syllabus

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The most innovative flight training approach of its kind, this syllabus maps out a combined flight and ground training course for the Private Pilot certificate and Instrument Rating. Students graduate prepared to operate in the full spectrum of the airspace system — the key to maximizing the utility of their pilot certificate and aircraft.

This syllabus meets all FAA Part 141 and 61 requirements and incorporates FAA/Industry Training Standards (FITS) including scenario-based training and learner-centered grading.

Based on The Pilot's Manual Series: Access to Flight, the syllabus enables schools, instructors, or students to choose to supplement the program with other textbooks, videos, and other various course materials. It allows the freedom to teach or learn the material in the most effective way — on an individual basis. All Part 141 requirements have been met in a logical and user-friendly method, yet the course is equally effective for Part 61 operations and freelance instructors.

The Private Pilot and Instrument Rating requirements are merged into a single curriculum. This integrated approach provides the most efficient path to completion, is easier to follow than separate ground and flight training programs, and results in a pilot who is prepared to make decisions, operate as pilot-in-command, and take full advantage of their personal transportation solution.

Soft cover, spiral-bound, 289 pages.