CLUB PILOT EXAM SYLLABUS

AIRLAW

Notam - how it works

Ballast

Collision avoidance rules

Low flying Rules

Airmap scales 1:500,000 and 1:125,000 what airspace does it show.

UK Aviation Law - Where does it come from (Air Navigation: The orders and the regulations)

Radios - legalities and frequencies for transmitting from the air

Minimum height to fly over congested area

Airspace - F and G are you allowed to fly?

PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT

Parasitic drag

Induced drag

Centre of pressure

Stall - angle of attack

Lift

Glide angle

Headwind, tailwind groundspeed

Big -ears -dangers and uses

Rising air- sinkrate

Accelerator system

Waist strap harness adjustment - what effect on the wing

METEOROLOGY

Wind speed venturied over the brow of a hill (not compression)

Warm fronts - associated clouds wind and weather conditions

Anenometer - gusty conditions

CLOUDS

Orographic

Cumulas

Lenticular

Stratus

Nimbus

Isobars

Thermals

High pressure - wind direction

Low pressure - wind direction

Wind direction changes with height

Veering , backing

AIRMANSHIP

Logbooks - why do you need them?

Check airspace before you turn

Assymetric Tuck - recovery

The feeling of Airspeed

Club pilot next stage -Pilot tasks

Red streamer

Thermal in the same direction

Speed to fly - best (L/D lift/drag) how to set the controls to get the maximum distance in

Calm air, headwind, tailwind

When to throw reserve - large assymetrics near the ground.

Top landings - best approach

Wind gradient -best way to approach for landing

Wind venturi in gullies and sides, tops of hills

Rotor

Ridge soaring rules