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The PPL Pilot’s guide

by Jake Castle

Jake Castle is a 30 year old EASA ATPL and CAA PPL holder from Essex England but currently residing in Malaga Spain. Self described as “not the smartest bloke” they have created a guide to all the exercises in the PPL syllabus to help break down into easy to understand chunks, helping you to maximise your time in your costly flying lessons learning to fly, not remembering how to fly.   As an auditory and kinaesthetic learner, they are someone that when driving to the airfields would have a roughly hour long drive to and from, and so would often need something to listen to, and they just wish they had the PPL Pilot’s guide during their training to help them learn.    This podcast is not there to teach you to fly but to supplement your studies so whilst you are driving to the airfield or washing up or on your commute to work or school, you can have this on in the background as a gentle reminder of what you need to do in that flying exercise.   This is not aircraft specific podcast and only serves to reinforce to basic fundamentals of each exercise which no matter if you are learning to fly for fun or aim to go commercial, analog or digital cockpit, it will be the building blocks of all your aviation.   You want to save money learning to fly by turning up to your lesson prepared, you do not want to spend your lesson time having to remember what you did last lesson or what you should be doing this lesson, you want to turn up, prepared and ready to learn new skills and develop.   Each episode labelled with the exercise number and a brief description, so you do not need to listen to all of them, simple find the exercise you need and have a listen.   Your instructor may tell you to do certain things differently as per the flying order book of your school/club or they simply may have their way of doing it, but this podcast serves to give you the fundamentals of each exercise.   Happy flying! Intro and Outro: "Cloud Dancer " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest episodes

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APS MCC

A bonus episode focusing on the Airline Pilot Standards Multi-Crew Cooperation course. This is not part of the PPL syllabus but as so many go on from PPL to commercial

Nov 7 2025
36 min

CPL

The commercial pilots licence is maybe the toughest test (I thought so anyway) but it doesn’t have to be, there is so much you can do to prepare. I have given my story

Jun 10 2025
51 min

MEIR

Your multi engine instrument rating, what is included in the course, and what do you need to know? I am here to with these questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p

Mar 31 2025
48 min

MEIR or CPL

What order should you do your training in? That game old question that every pilot will have an opinion on. Doing things slightly differently we have this special episo

Mar 30 2025
29 min

Exercise 20

Training for your night rating. You do not need this to get your PPL(A) but do need it if you aim to go commercial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i

Nov 17 2024
42 min

Exercise 19

Instrument appreciation with full panel/limited panel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 15 2024
19 min

Exercise 18

Aiming to learn to navigate the aircraft safely under VMC without infringing controlled airspace. Operation at minimum level. NDB/VOR tracking Hosted on Acast. See

Nov 15 2024
41 min

Exercise 17

To learn to make an approach and safe landing with power into a deserted aerodrome or field Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 14 2024
16 min

Exercise 16

Forced landing without power   The aim is to learn to make an approach and safe landing after an engine failure in flight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m

Nov 14 2024
24 min

Exercise 15

The aim will be to carry out a co-ordinated turn at 45 deg & 60 deg, whilst maintaining balance and airspeed and to roll out on selected reference points or headings. H

Nov 14 2024
21 min

Exercise 14

First solo flight! The best flying you will ever do…except CPL QXC but that is another story   The aim of this exercise is very simple, the aim is to fly solo and be

Nov 13 2024
17 min

Exercise 13

You’ll learn to make an approach and landing without the use of flaps, make a glide approach and conduct a safe circuit even in soft/short field landing circumstances. Ho

Nov 13 2024
31 min

Exercise 12

The aim is to learn to take off, climb to a correct height, fly the circuit pattern, make an approach to land, touch and go or full stop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p

Nov 13 2024
33 min

Exercise 11

Spinning! Standard spin recovery   Identify direction of spinThrottle closedFlaps upApply full rudder in opposite direction of spinPauseEase control forward until spin

Nov 10 2024
5 min

Exercise 10

This lesson may be taught differently at your school/club but is maybe one of the most important. The fundamentals are around slow flight recognising it, acquainted wi

Nov 9 2024
52 min

Exercise 9

Exercise 9   As with many of the exercises, exercise 9 is split into parts, namely 9.1 9.2   For using on the first part which is 9.1 we have the aim of learning how

Nov 6 2024
29 min

Exercise 7.2 & 8.2

Exercise 7.2 & 8.2   Aim is to learn to control the descent of the A/C with the use of power and/or flap and to go around (missed approach) Hosted on Acast. See acast

Nov 5 2024
21 min

Exercise 7.1 & 8.1

Exercise 7.1 & 8.1 Climbing and descending at a constant speed on a constant heading and in balance.   You may have noticed that some lessons you will do multiple exer

Nov 5 2024
18 min

Exercise 6

The aim of this exercise is the thing that will to learn to do more than anything else as a pilot which is yes flying straight and level but it is about consistency in fl

Oct 29 2024
17 min

Exercise 5

Taxiing and how to do it safely Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 28 2024
22 min

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