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    Flight Training and Aircraft Rentals provides flight instruction and aircraft rentals out of their facility located in Miami, Florida. The document includes acronyms, checklists, requirements, and information relevant to pilots regarding weather, safety procedures, instrument flight rules, and potential optical illusions. It serves as a reference guide covering a wide range of topics important to pilots.

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    Flight Training and Aircraft Rentals provides flight instruction and aircraft rentals out of their facility located in Miami, Florida. The document includes acronyms, checklists, requirements, and information relevant to pilots regarding weather, safety procedures, instrument flight rules, and potential optical illusions. It serves as a reference guide covering a wide range of topics important to pilots.

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    Flight Training and Aircraft Rentals provides flight instruction and aircraft rentals out of their facility located in Miami, Florida. The document includes acronyms, checklists, requirements, and information relevant to pilots regarding weather, safety procedures, instrument flight rules, and potential optical illusions. It serves as a reference guide covering a wide range of topics important to pilots.

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    Aircraft: Acronyms

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    Bruno Vinicius Machado
    Flight Training and Aircraft Rentals provides flight instruction and aircraft rentals out of their facility located in Miami, Florida. The document includes acronyms, checklists, requirements, and information relevant to pilots regarding weather, safety procedures, instrument flight rules, and potential optical illusions. It serves as a reference guide covering a wide range of topics important to pilots.

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    The document discusses various aviation terms, weather reports, and optical illusions pilots may face.

    Some acronyms mentioned include VFR, IFR, ELT, ADF, DME, POH, and NTSB.

    Weather reports mentioned include terminal weather, radar summary, surface analysis, satellite imagery, winds/temperature aloft, and significant weather prognostications.

    Flight Training and Aircraft Rentals

    14150 SW 129th St. MIAMI, FL. 33186


    www.flymiami.com
    305-259-5611

    ACRONYMS

    Aircraft
    ARROW
    Airworthiness certificate ----------------------------------------------------- Altimeter/static system
    Registration ------------------------ 30 days since death of owner Annual
    Radio station license Foreign registration VOR checks
    Operation handbook Transfer of ownership Inspection (100 hr)
    Weight and balance Destruction of aircraft Airworthiness directives
    U.S. citizenship lost Transponder
    Cancelled at request of ownership ELT

    VFR Day VFR Day

    Anti collision light Tachometer


    Airspeed Oil pressure
    Altimeter Mag Compass
    Tachometer Airspeed
    Temp gauge Temp gauge
    Oil pressure Oil temp
    Oil temp ELT
    Mag compass Anti-collision lights
    Manifold pressure Fuel gauge
    Seat belts Landing gear position lights
    ELT Altimeter
    Landing gear position lights Manifold pressure
    Fuel gauges Emergency Equipment
    Flare/pyrotechnic device

    VFR Night VFR Night

    Position lights Fuses


    Electrical Source Landing lights (hire)
    Landing lights (hire) Anti-collision Lights
    Anti-collision lights Position lights
    Fuses Source of electricity
    WX Reports

    Terminal
    Weather depiction
    Radar summary
    Pireps
    Surface analysis
    Satellite

    Do Not need ELT WX forecast

    50 N.M Training Significant wx prognostic


    Turbo-jet Winds/temp aloft
    Experimental Inflight wx advisory
    Agricultural Severe wx watch
    Research Severe wx outlook
    Scheduled air carries Convective outlook
    1 pilot airplane Terminal area forecast
    Air racing
    New aircraft delivery
    Crew training
    Exhibition

    Safety of Flight

    Weather
    All available info ------------------------------------ Charts
    Runway lengths ADF
    Takeoff distances NOTAMs
    Fuel requirements FAR
    Alternative available AIM
    Delays Known to AFC Advisory circular
    POH

    NTSB 830

    Immediate notification if accident plus:


    Inability of crewmember to perform due to injury or illness
    Inflight fire
    Failure to turbine blades
    Flight control failure
    Damage to property over $25,000
    Overdue aircraft believed to have been in an accident
    Aircraft collide in flight
    IFR Instruments After missed approach

    Heading indicator Cram it


    Altimeter Climb it
    Radios (2 way) Clean it
    DME above flight level 240 if using VOR Cool it
    Turn coordinator w/ inclinometer Call it
    Attitude indicator
    Clock w/ second hand sweep
    Alternator / generator
    Nav. equipment appropriate to the facilities being used

    IFR Instrument Clearance

    Alternator / generator Clearance limit


    Radios Route
    Altimeter Altitude (initial and expected)
    Ball (slip/skid indicator) Frequency (departure)
    Clock Transponder code
    Attitude indicator
    Rate of turn indicator
    Directional Gyro
    DME above FL 240 if using VOR

    Approach Briefing Position report


    ATIS Identification
    Marker Beacons Position
    Magnetic Compass Time
    Identify approach plate aid frequencies Altitude
    Course (in bound) Type of flight plan
    Entry (radar vectors, procedure turn, etc.) ETA and name of next point
    Altitude (current, aid MDA or DH) Next reporting point
    Time for missed approach
    Missed approach procedures

    Radar/Non radar mandatory reports


    Leaving assigned altitude
    Information concerning the safety of flight
    Change in altitude when VFR on top
    Missed Approach
    Unable to climb 7 descend at 500 ft/min
    Change in true airspeed of 10 kts or 5%
    Time and altitude when reaching assigned fix
    Leaving assigned holding fix
    Equipment malfunction
    Weather hazard
    IFR flight rates Holding Patterns

    Take off/ landing minimums Directions of hold


    Radio communication Fix holding on
    VOR check Course
    Equipment failure Length of legs
    Level of flight to be flown Turns
    Information needed Time (current and EFC)
    Fuel requirements
    Radio failure
    Minimum altitudes
    Routes / course to be flown

    LOST COMMS

    Altitudes Routes

    Minimum Enroute Alt. Assigned routes


    Expected Alt. Vectored by Radar, go direct
    Assigned Alt. Expected
    Filed

    Illusions
    Inversion Graveyard spin
    Coriolis Graveyard spiral
    False Horizon Featureless Terrain
    Auto kenisis Atmospheric Illusions
    Leans Ground lighting, illusions
    Somatogravic Runway width
    Elevator illusion Runway Slope

    Compass Errors

    Variation
    Deviation
    Magnetic dip
    Oscillation
    Northerly turning error -------------------------------- Undershoot
    Acceleration Error --------- Accelerate North
    North Overshoot
    Decelerate South
    South

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