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Click to see a larger image...The ultimate checklist that every pilot needs.  Ten years in development, this is a product that pilots of all experience levels 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.  Put this essential safety tool in your flight bag or knee board for only $4

Technical Specifications: Made of high quality 5mil plastic. Black screen print on ultra white gloss PVC for maximum readability.  Underprint of signature panel white ink for Flight Plan and Power-Performance chart so you can write/erase with pencil and most pens. 
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This Tool Covers:
  • Cruising Altitute Rules
  • Light Gun Signals
  • Common Frequencies
  • Temperature Conversion
  • Flight Plan Format - you
    can write on the plastic
  • Units of Conversion
  • Inches/Metric Ruler
  • Terminal/Sectional Ruler
  • Power/Performance Chart-
    you can write on the plastic
  • Time Zone Conversions
  • Phonetic Alphabet/Morse Code
  • Flight Plan suffix codes
  • Missed Approaches
  • Spin Recovery
  • All Engine Out
  • Using a VOR
  • Clearance Format
  • Required Reports
  • Personal Preflight
  • PIREP Format
  • Pop UP IFR
  • Required Inspections
  • Required Documents
  • Safety Threat Briefing
  • Position Reporting
  • IFR EMERGENCY
  • VFR Minimums
  • Manuevers Checklist
  • GPS Preflight
  • Common METAR codes
  • Approach Briefing
  • Pre-landing Checks
  • Shutdown
  • Transponder codes
  • Required Instruments
  • After Landing Checks
  • VOR Check tolerances
  • IFR Radio Failure
  • Cleared for the Approach
  • Lost checklist
    
Terms of all purchases:  US funds only.  Sent First Class Mail.  For International Sales, you must provide a Fed-X account number to ship the product to you.

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  • "I'm very happy with this purchase." - Lee in Evansville
  • "Great stuff!" - Robert in Goose Creek
       
Free 1st Class Mail ShippingVisi-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 $15 (Free Shipping to US addresses)  Sent First Class with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.
  
  Combo Packages - only available here


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book cover Using the NASA form


Free Priority Mail ShippingStudent Pilot Combo Package
Save $12 - Want to be ahead of the game and need it all?  Get the best VFR cross country flight planning plotter on the market, and the book that is going to save you a lot of money, help you get finished quickly, and become the safest pilot.  There is also the radio communications guide which will make you sound like a pro and the checklist that covers 30 normal and non-normal situations and has 9 special tools that  you'll use on every flight. Free upgraded shipping! We ship everything in a huge priority mail envelope with delivery confirmation tracking number - arrives in 2-3 days.  A $81 value (if purchased separately) for only $69 - that's a 15% discount!  Always FREE shipping to US addresses.

You'll get  SEVEN great products which will give you a leg up on your training:
  -  Visi-Plotter™ - The best, most accurate navigational plotter made. $15 value
  -  Pilot's Rules of Thumb™ - The ultimate checklist that every pilot needs which covers 30 normal and non-normal situations and has 9 special tools that  you'll use on every flight.
$4 value
  -  Getting the Most From Your Flight Training - a 170-page book is the essential guide to becoming a better pilot, paying the least, getting the most, and finishing as quickly as possible.

  -  Pilot's Radio Communications Guide - The 70-page review guide is designed as a quick reference guide or radio communications training self study guide.  $15 value
  -  Using the NASA Form (PocketLearning) - The 50-page review guide with practical tips and advice for using the NASA form when you've violated the FARs. $12 value
  -  Winter Flying (PocketLearning) - a 50-page guide offering the pilot quick tips & techniques so you can get the most out of your winter flying - safely.   $8 value
  -  Aviation Acronyms, Contractions, & Mnemonics (PocketLearning) - the ultimate decoder ring for aviation. This 90-page book is a comprehensive reference for all sectors of avaiation.   $12 value
 
We ship everything in a huge priority mail envelope with delivery confirmation tracking number - arrives in 2-3 days.  Price: $69 - Always FREE shipping to US addresses.


 


Cover - IFR Checkride ReviewerPicture of "Getting the Most From Your Flight Training"Click to see a larger picture

Cover - Radio Communications Guidebook cover Using the NASA form  
 








Includes ELEVEN products
:
IFR Checkride Reviewer
Practical Test Standards with Examiner's Notes
Getting the Most From Your Flight Training
Pilot's Radio Communications Guide
Safer Approaches 
Pilot's Rules of Thumb

Visi-Hold™  
Learning IFR Enroute Charts
Using the NASA form
(PocketLearning)
Winter Flying (PocketLearning)
Aviation Acronyms (PocketLearning)

Free Priority Mail Shipping Everything IFR - The Whole Enchilada - 2012
Save $17 - Getting started and don't want to miss a thing?  Coming up on a Checkride and need it all?  Here's the package that everyone has been asking me to do for the last 10 years.  It's the whole enchilada as they say on PBS.   It's a $119 value (if purchased separately) for  $102 - that's a 15% discount!

You'll get  ELEVEN great products which will give you a leg up on your training:
 -  Instrument Rating Checkride Reviewer - the best selling Checkride Preparation guide in the USA. This 220-page book will guide you through the essential knowledge elements for passing your checkride. 
Visi-Hold™ is absolutely included as a bonus. Value $20
 -  Practical Test Standards WITH Examiner's Notes - Don't just buy a regular PTS, buy the one WITH examiner's notes so you'll know what's on the checkride. Value $15
 -  Learning IFR Enroute Charts - the instructor's friend when it comes to teaching IFR charts - this 40 page guide is a comprehensive reference guide and study package.  Value $10
 -  Pilot's Rules of Thumb™ - The ultimate checklist that every pilot needs which covers 30 normal and non-normal situations and has 9 special tools that  you'll use on every flight. $4 value
  -  Getting the Most From Your Flight Training - a 170-page book is the essential guide to becoming a better pilot, paying the least, getting the most, and finishing as quickly as possible.
  -  Pilot's Radio Communications Guide - The 70-page review guide is designed as a quick reference guide or radio communications training self study guide.  $15 value
 -  Safer Approaches - how to conduct Instrument Approach Procedures to a higher standard of safety and precision.  It includes a plastic descent rate table I am sure you will keep in your kneeboard.  $8 value
  -  Using the NASA Form (PocketLearning) - The 50-page review guide with practical tips and advice for using the NASA form when you've violated the FARs. $12 value
  -  Winter Flying (PocketLearning) - a 50-page guide offering the pilot quick tips & techniques so you can get the most out of your winter flying - safely.   $8 value
  -  Aviation Acronyms, Contractions, & Mnemonics (PocketLearning) - the ultimate decoder ring for aviation. This 90-page book is a comprehensive reference for all sectors of avaiation.   $12 value

We ship everything in a huge priority mail envelope with delivery confirmation tracking number - arrives in 2-3 days.  Price: $102 - Always FREE shipping to US addresses.

  


Cover - IFR Checkride ReviewerPicture of "Getting the Most From Your Flight Training"Click to see a larger picture

Cover - Radio Communications Guide







Includes SEVEN products
:
IFR Checkride Reviewer
Practical Test Standards with Examiner's Notes
Getting the Most From Your Flight Training
Pilot's Radio Communications Guide
Visi-Hold™
Learning IFR Enroute Charts
Pilot's Rules of Thumb
Free Priority Mail ShippingIFR Checkride Preparation Combo - 2012 Edition
Save $14 - Got your IFR checkride coming up?  Starting your instrument rating?  Save 15% on the IFR Checkride Prep Combo - everything you'll need for your checkride.  It's a $94 value (if purchased separately) for  $80 - that's a 15% discount!

This package includes SEVEN great products:
 -  Instrument Rating Checkride Reviewer - the best selling Checkride Preparation guide in the USA. This 220-page book will guide you through the essential knowledge elements for passing your checkride.  Visi-Hold™ is absolutely included as a bonus. Value $20
 -  Practical Test Standards WITH Examiner's Notes - Don't just buy a regular PTS, buy the one WITH examiner's notes so you'll know what's on the checkride. Value $15
  -  Pilot's Radio Communications Guide - The 70-page review guide is designed as a quick reference guide or radio communications training self study guide.  $15 value
 -  Learning IFR Enroute Charts - the instructor's friend when it comes to teaching IFR charts - this 40 page guide is a comprehensive reference guide and study package.  Value $10
 -  Pilot's Rules of Thumb™ - The ultimate checklist that every pilot needs which covers 30 normal and non-normal situations and has 9 special tools that  you'll use on every flight. $4 value
  -  Getting the Most From Your Flight Training - a 170-page book is the essential guide to becoming a better pilot, paying the least, getting the most, and finishing as quickly as possible.
  -  Pilot's Radio Communications Guide - The 70-page review guide is designed as a quick reference guide or radio communications training self study guide.  $15 value

We ship everything in a huge priority mail envelope with delivery confirmation tracking number - arrives in 2-3 days.  Price: $80 - 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
Free 1st Class Mail ShippingSave $5 - 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.  Purchased separately, this is a $32 value at a 15% discount!   Only $27  Get FOUR great products at a phenomenal discount:
 -  Learning IFR Enroute Charts - the instructor's friend when it comes to teaching IFR charts - this 40 page guide is a comprehensive reference guide and study package.  Value $10
 -  Pilot's Rules of Thumb™ - The ultimate checklist that every pilot needs which covers 30 normal and non-normal situations and has 9 special tools that  you'll use on every flight. $4 value

  -  Safer Approaches - how to conduct Instrument Approach Procedures to a higher standard of safety and precision.  It includes a plastic descent rate table I am sure you will keep in your kneeboard.  $8 value
 -  Visi-Hold™ - know your holding entries instantly.  Value $10

Purchased separately, this is a $32 value at a 15% discount!   Only $27 (Free Shipping to US addresses)Sent First Class with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.  Upgraded shipping available, click the orange FREE shipping icon for more information. 

  


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Includes THREE books:
Aviation Acronyms
(PocketLearning)
Using the NASA Form (PocketLearning)
Winter Flying (PocketLearning)
Free 1st Class Mail ShippingPocketLearning Combo - 3 Great books, One Price
Save $5 - Get the entire PocketLearning library, the pilot's reference library at a great price.  Includes THREE great publications to help you tune up your flying:
  -  Using the NASA Form (PocketLearning) - The 50-page review guide with practical tips and advice for using the NASA form when you've violated the FARs. $12 value
  -  Winter Flying (PocketLearning) - a 50-page guide offering the pilot quick tips & techniques so you can get the most out of your winter flying - safely.   $8 value
  -  Aviation Acronyms, Contractions, & Mnemonics (PocketLearning) - the ultimate decoder ring for aviation. This 90-page book is a comprehensive reference for all sectors of avaiation.   $12 value

Purchased separately, this is a $32 value at a 15% discount!   Only $27
(Always FREE Shipping to US addresses)Sent First Class with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number.  Upgraded shipping available, click the orange FREE shipping icon for more information. 

 

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