360 8 Flight Training Experiences to Make You a Better Pilot with Dr. Catherine Cavagnaro + GA News

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Max talks with Dr. Catherine Cavagnaro about the value of advanced flight training and aviation experiences. Catherine shares her family tradition of gifting adventures instead of physical items, often involving flights to places like Fredericksburg, Texas, or Ireland, blending fun, learning, and aviation.

They discuss using flight training as a “gift to oneself,” encouraging pilots to pursue new ratings or specialized courses to improve skills. Catherine highlights the instrument rating for enhancing precision and multitasking, and the commercial rating for smoothing out flying and improving passenger comfort. She advocates for specialized training like spin training to build stall confidence, mountain flying for high-terrain safety, tailwheel training for better rudder control, and quick, rewarding ratings like seaplane flying.

Catherine emphasizes the importance of real IFR training, which focuses on enroute and departure procedures rather than just approaches, helping pilots confidently use their aircraft for travel. Both also stress the need for advanced avionics training to master modern glass cockpits, improving safety and proficiency.

The episode inspires pilots to embrace continuous learning, specialize in skills, and have fun while becoming safer, more capable aviators. Many of these experiences can count toward a flight review.

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0:00.0	You've probably found that every time you get a new pilot certificate or rating, it makes you a better pilot.
0:07.7	Today we're talking with Dr. Catherine Kovignaro about eight different flight training experiences you can do to make you a better pilot.
0:14.8	So be generous to yourself and do one or more of these training experiences in the coming year.
0:20.1	We'll also talk about why humidity
0:21.7	impacts aircraft performance and more importantly, how to calculate that effect on your performance.
0:27.6	I'll also talk about my latest article in this month's Flying magazine. And if the government
0:31.9	does shut down this weekend, we'll have a special episode in the next few days to tell you
0:36.2	about the ramifications to pilots.
0:38.9	And a quick reminder that you're running out of time to get $100 off on the Lightspeed Zulu 3 headset.
0:44.2	You have until January 13th to get that headset for just $7.99.
0:47.9	And to get that deal, go to AviationNewsTalk.com slash lightspeed.
0:52.2	Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk
0:54.5	general aviation. My name is Max Truscott. I've been flying for, yeah, over 50 years. I'm the author
0:59.9	of several books in the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year, and my mission is to help you become
1:04.8	the safest possible pilot. Last week in episode 359, we talked with Dr. Quay Snyder, an expert in aerospace medicine,
1:12.9	about the critical rule of sleep and tips for getting a good night's sleep. So if you didn't
1:17.1	hear that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewstalk.com slash 359. And if you're
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