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MentorLIVE #40: Beyond the ACS - Upping Your Flying Game

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Advice 'Beyond The ACS' For Pilots And Flight Instructors Who Want To Improve Their Skills And Safety.

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Chapters 23
  1. 0:00 Welcome and introducing Catherine Cavagnaro
  2. 6:01 Catherine Cavagnaro: learning not to over-control
  3. 9:00 Pilot-induced oscillations
  4. 12:02 Ruining landings with power
  5. 15:01 Legal zero-zero departures
  6. 18:02 Using charts and mountain performance
  7. 24:03 Q&A: autopilot modes
  8. 27:01 Approaches in mountain winds
  9. 30:01 Yaw strings and gliders
  10. 33:00 Attached airflow and streamers
  11. 36:02 Slipping and skidding
  12. 39:00 Q&A
  13. 42:02 Coordinated flight
  14. 45:01 Streamline video
  15. 48:01 Video episodes
  16. 51:00 Exhaust and engine care
  17. 54:00 Touching down in a crab
  18. 57:01 The importance of a mentor
  19. 1:00:01 Advice from a mentor
  20. 1:03:03 Forces on the airplane
  21. 1:09:03 Forward CG
  22. 1:12:03 Checking the calculations
  23. 1:15:00 Gliders and taildraggers

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About This Course

Topic: Advice 'Beyond The ACS' For Pilots And Flight Instructors Who Want To Improve Their Skills And Safety.

Presenter Catherine Cavagnaro, DPE, CFI-I, ATP, PhD, draws from her experience as an aerobatic flight instructor, FAA designated pilot examiner, monthly contributor for AOPA Pilot Magazine and mathematics professor to offer advice for pilots and flight instructors who want to improve their skills and safety. Catherine produces her own videos that make aerodynamic principles clear and interesting.

Presenters

Catherine Cavagnaro

Presenter

Catherine Cavagnaro, CFI-I, ATP, PhD Based on her career as an aerobatic flight instructor, FAA designated pilot examiner, monthly contributor for AOPA Pilot Magazine and mathematics professor, Catherine will offer advice for pilots and flight instructors who want to improve their skills and safety.  She produces her own videos that make aerodynamic principles clear and interesting. Presenter Bio Catherine Cavagnaro serves as lead rep and DPE for the Nashville FSDO. She is an ATP-SEL, COM-MEL, COM-SES and glider. She holds CFI,SEL/MEL and Instrument ratings. Dr. Cavagnaro is Professor of Mathematics and was Chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of the South. She developed courses in aerodynamics, differential equations, and mathematical modeling using aviation examples. Catherine owns the Ace Aerobatic School in Sewanee, TN, where she is a widely known expert on spin training, recovery, and avoidance. During 2004-2008, Professor Cavagnaro served as a test pilot, spin demonstration pilot, researcher, and visiting professor of aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. Catherine is the first woman to achieve both the 2018 National FAASTeam Rep of the year and the 2020 National CFI of the year. Host Bio CATHERINE CAVAGNARO - PRESENTER

Catherine Cavagnaro serves as lead rep and DPE for the Nashville FSDO. She is an ATP-SEL, COM-MEL, COM-SES and glider. She holds CFI,SEL/MEL and Instrument ratings. Dr. Cavagnaro is Professor of Mathematics and was Chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of the South. She developed courses in aerodynamics, differential equations, and mathematical modeling using aviation examples.

Catherine owns the Ace Aerobatic School in Sewanee, TN, where she is a widely known expert on spin training, recovery, and avoidance. During 2004-2008, Professor Cavagnaro served as a test pilot, spin demonstration pilot, researcher, and visiting professor of aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. Catherine is the first woman to achieve both the 2018 National FAASTeam Rep of the year and the 2020 National CFI of the year.

Karen Kalishek

Host

Karen Kalishek is an independent CFI for private through flight instructor powered and glider candidates, in a range of aircraft including J-3 Cubs and Cirrus. She is a Captain in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), serving as a volunteer CFI, G1000 instructor, check pilot, mission pilot, cadet orientation pilot and is an officer for safety, aerospace education, public affairs, and special flight release. She serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Flight Instructors, is a member of the WINGS Industry Advisory Committee, COPA and is active in several other aviation organizations. Karen is the 2019 National FAASTeam Rep of the year.

KAREN KALISHEK - HOST Karen Kalishek is a DPE and an independent CFI for private through flight instructor powered and glider candidates, in a range of aircraft including J-3 Cubs and Cirrus. She is a Major in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), serving as a volunteer CFI, G1000 instructor, check pilot, mission pilot, cadet orientation pilot and is an officer for safety, aerospace education, public affairs, and special flight release.

She serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Flight Instructors, is a member of the WINGS Industry Advisory Committee, COPA and is active in several other aviation organizations. Karen is the 2019 National FAASTeam Rep of the year.

WINGS Credit Details
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