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Cover - IFR Checkride Reviewer
Instrument Rating Checkride Reviewer - Best Seller
3rd Edition. Finally, instrument rating help!  This 340-page review package is designed to help you to get through the Instrument Checkride.  Includes the Pilot's Radio Communications Guide as a chapter and Visi-Hold™ (see below) as a bonus.  This package can be used as a self study guide or by flight instructors to provide IPC/Checkride preparation.  Designed to fit in your flight bag, size: 8.5" x 6" Sent USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number, arrives in 2-3 days.   Price: $24.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses). ISBN: 978-0-9823940-0-7  ...more information
 
"I am now recommending it to my students as the best single book to buy to prepare for the checkride." Kevin
Guaranteed Pass Helicopter Flash Cards
Guaranteed Pass - Helicopter Flash Cards
This package includes 240 easy to read, soft yellow cards -- not flimsy paper -- which will help you pass your FAA written and oral (checkride) helicopter exams.  Card size approximately: 4.25" x 2.75" - a stack of cards approximately 2" high.   Includes all helicopter subjects. Sent USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number, arrives in 2-3 days.
  Price: $24.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses).  ISBN: 978-0-9823940-2-1 

Doc MacKinnon (about the Helicopter Flash Cards): "Truly worth every cent! Clear, concise, & ideal for the busy student."
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Pilot's Radio Communications Guide
This 70-page review guide is designed as a quick reference guide or radio communications training self study guide. This covers VFR & IFR radio communications. Build your confidence by knowing what to say and when. Designed to fit in your flight bag, size: 3.6" x 8.5"  Price: $14.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses).  ISBN: 978-0-9823940-7-6  Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.





Picture of "Getting the Most From Your Flight Training" Getting the Most From Your Flight Training
This 158-page book is the essential guide to becoming a better pilot, paying the least, getting the most, and finishing as quickly as possible. Includes sections on Becoming a Better Pilot, Ground & Flight Instruction Tips, and Earning Certificates & Ratings. Size 8.5" x 6" Price: $14.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses).  ISBN: 978-0-9823940-8-3
AOPA says, Mention the phrase "save money on flight training," and you've got a student pilot's attention in a hurry. Darren Smith, a CFII and ATP who has written several books about flying, is the author of a book that purports to help you become a better pilot while paying the least, getting the most, and finishing as quickly as possible. Smith includes advice on getting started, how to select a flight instructor, getting into the airlines, and an introduction to radio communications. The nitty-gritty advice on saving money is found in the sections on ground and flight instruction. Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.
 
Visi-Hold - Know Instantly
Never wonder about holding entries again!   Works with standard holds and non-standard holds (left turns).   The Visi-Hold™ package comes complete with Visi-Hold™ template, directions, and two articles on holds: All About Holding and Holding Simplified.  You'll pay no less than $14.95 for a complicated sliderule holding pattern calculator made by ASA. That's not even including shipping!  Those of you who know what real IFR is like know that you can't fool around with a sliderule while the airplane is bouncing around. Instead, get the original Visi-Hold™, helping pilots know the holding pattern entry since 2000. Price: $9.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses). ISBN: 978-0-9823940-6-9  Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.
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Want it overnight?                                        CFI Discount for Visi-Hold - Know Instantly

Safer Approaches
Safer Approaches will teach you how to conduct Instrument Approach Procedures to a higher standard of safety and precision. You will learn:
- Four Fundamentals of Safe Approaches,
- How to virtually eliminate possibility of CFIT of Controlled Flight Into Terrain,
- How to perform a Constant Angle Non-Precision Approach (CANPA),
- How to calculate a Visual Descent Point (VDP),
- How to practice building your flying precision.
What's inside the package?
1.  The Safer Approaches publication, 14pp.
2.  The Stabilized Approach Descent Rate Table, a
plastic 4" x 6" kneeboard sized IFR tool that will eliminate the mental math applying these techniques during your IFR flying.

Price: $7.95
(Always free Shipping to US addresses). Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.
 
Learning IFR Enroute Charts
This 40 page guide helps the Flight Instructor or Instrument Student with  IFR Enroute Symbology.  It uses a unique IFR Chart Extract to teach symbology.   It includes all symbology you need to know for your Instrument checkride or Instrument Proficiency Check.  As a bonus chapter, Instrument Approach Procedure (plate) symbology is also included. All of which you need to know prior to your checkride. Price: $9.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses).  ISBN: 978-0-9823940-3-8  Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.


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Pilot's Rules of Thumb - the ultimate VFR/IFR Checklist
The ultimate checklist that every pilot needs.   Ten years in development, this is a product that pilots of all levels of experience can immediately use.  This tool covers 30 normal and non-normal situations and has 9 special tools that  you'll use on every flight.   This high-quality plastic ruler/checklist measures approximately 3.75" x 9".  Click the picture to see a larger picture of this tool or click the link for more information.  Price: $3.99 (Free Shipping to US addresses).
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Cover - IFR Checkride ReviewerPicture of "Getting the Most From Your Flight Training"Click to see a larger picture IFR Checkride Preparation Combo
Got your IFR checkride coming up?  Starting your instrument rating?  Save $10 on the IFR Checkride Prep Combo - everything you'll need for your checkride.  This package includes the best selling IFR Checkride Preparation guide, a 340-page review package is designed to help you to get through the Instrument Checkride.  It also includes the Pilot's Radio Communications Guide as a chapter and Visi-Hold™ (described above).  You'll also receive Getting the Most From Your Flight Training, the ultimate guide to getting the most, paying the least and becoming a safer pilot.  If that weren't enough, you'll also receive the ultimate pilot's checklist, Pilot's Rules of Thumb, which covers 30 normal and non-normal situations and has 9 special tools that  you'll use on every flight.  Sent USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number, arrives in 2-3 days.
Price $37.95 (Always free Shipping to US addresses).
 









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IFR Home Run:  Learning IFR Charts, Safer Approaches, Visi-Hold, Rules of Thumb - 4 Great Products, One Price
Save $11. Get three top-rated pubs & the ultimate pilot's checklist:   Learning IFR Enroute Charts & Visi-Hold™ & Safer Approaches & Pilot's Rules of Thumb (described above) home run combo package.  Not only will you own the ultimate pilot's checklist,  you'll master IFR chart symbology, you'll never wonder about holding entries again, and you'll perform the safest, most stabilized instrument approaches possible.  This home run combo package is a perfect gift for the Instrument Rated PIlot.  Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.  Price $19.99 (Free Shipping to US addresses).



 
Visi-Plotter - Simply the Best Flight Planning Plotter Made

This is the only VFR plotter invented by a CFI for pilots.  It includes innovative features that provides temperature conversion, flight planning scratch pad area, and a no-mistakes course protractor that even beginners won't be confused by.  It provides scales for sectional & WAC charts, and it even has inches & MM measurements.

The Most Accurate
The Visi-Plotter navigational plotter is created from a calibrated hot stamp.  It is the most accurate way to create a plotter.  No other plotter on the market uses this production method because its more expensive than the silk screen method used by every other manufacturer.

You'll pay no less than $21.95 to get a basic VFR plotter shipped from the typical online pilot store.  It won't include a tutorials on flight planning like Visi-Plotter.  It won't include online support like Visi-Plotter. Instead, get the original Visi-Plotter, helping pilots since 2000.  With Visi-Plotter, you'll get the best made plotter in the industry, a tutorial on flight planning, and online support.  Price $14.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses)  Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.
... more information & free support
                              

General Aviation Human Factors

Picture of "General Aviation Human Factors" book coverThis book  teaches the safety information that large flight departments and airlines use to guarantee flight safety.  Using the tools and techniques described in this book will help general aviation pilots resist errors and improve safety.  Learn the secrets of the safest segments of aviation to apply to your flying.   ISBN: 978-0-9823940-9-0
In this volume is a safety message that touches Private, Commercial, and even ATP-rated Pilots.  While many of the tips and techniques could apply to solo flying, my goal is to bring an airline-level of safety to multi-pilot, general aviation flying.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a Pilot and his Instructor or two ATP-rated Pilots flying a Boeing Business Jet.  This message is for you, I hope you’ll own it and make it yours.  Size 8.5" x 6" Price: $14.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses).  Sent USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.

Instrument or Commercial Student?  Corporate Pilot?  Airline Pilot?  Then you need this book!  Get the safety tools & techniques to keep you and your passengers safe!

Helicopter Checkride Reviewer

Cover - IFR Checkride ReviewerThis 200-page review package is designed to help you to get through your Helicopter Checkride.  Includes detailed Maneuvers Guide,  Radio Communications, and extensive helicopter Q&A.  This package can be used as a self study guide or by flight instructors to provide students for any Helicopter Checkride.  Designed to fit in your flight bag, size: 8.5" x 6"  Priority Mail, arrives in 2-3 days.  Price: $24.95 (Free Shipping to US addresses). ISBN: 978-0-9823940-1-4  Sent USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number, arrives in 2-3 days.

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