NEXT LESSON: #19, Solo cross–country
Suggested student homework assignments:
Read the AOPA Air Safety Foundation’s Safety Advisor: Do the Right Thing: Decision
Making for Pilots http://flighttrainmonroe.com/uploads/Decision_Making_for_Pilots.pdf
Practice obtaining weather briefings and making go/no-go decisions based on the information
provided
Gold Seal Online Ground School – Review all lessons – Sections 1 through 5
LESSON 19 – Solo cross-country
Dual – ground: 0.5
Solo – 2.5
Objective: Use of previously gained knowledge to complete a solo cross-country flight
Discussion topics:
1) solo cross-country briefing
2) required documents and endorsements
3) determining performance and weight and balance
4) basic VFR weather minimums
5) airspace rules
6) en route communications
7) ATC services
8) En route weather information
9) lost procedures
10) emergency operations
11) diversions
12) ATC light signals
13) aeronautical decision making
14) cockpit management
Review:
1) computing groundspeed, ETA, and fuel requirements
2) use of dead reckoning
3) VOR interception and tracking
4) use of navigation log
5) filing and opening and closing FAA flight plan
Completion standards:
1) Demonstrate accurate planning and conduct of a solo cross-country flight using the three
common methods of navigation
Suggested student homework assignments:
Read the AOPA Air Safety Foundation’s Safety Advisor: Do the Right Thing: Decision
Making for Pilots http://flighttrainmonroe.com/uploads/Decision_Making_for_Pilots.pdf
Practice obtaining weather briefings and making go/no-go decisions based on the information
provided
Gold Seal Online Ground School – Review all lessons – Sections 1 through 5
LESSON 19 – Solo cross-country
Dual – ground: 0.5
Solo – 2.5
Objective: Use of previously gained knowledge to complete a solo cross-country flight
Discussion topics:
1) solo cross-country briefing
2) required documents and endorsements
3) determining performance and weight and balance
4) basic VFR weather minimums
5) airspace rules
6) en route communications
7) ATC services
8) En route weather information
9) lost procedures
10) emergency operations
11) diversions
12) ATC light signals
13) aeronautical decision making
14) cockpit management
Review:
1) computing groundspeed, ETA, and fuel requirements
2) use of dead reckoning
3) VOR interception and tracking
4) use of navigation log
5) filing and opening and closing FAA flight plan
Completion standards:
1) Demonstrate accurate planning and conduct of a solo cross-country flight using the three
common methods of navigation