- Episode 22: VFR Operating Rules and Preflight Responsibilities
Elena and Jonah prepare a daytime VFR flight. A failed display changes the airplane and its loading check, a runway closure changes the destination, and a stronger headwind leads to an early fuel stop. The delay cancels their gathering, so Elena replans a daylight flight home before sunset. The lesson connects Part 91 preflight and operating rules to those decisions.
- Episode 21: Private-Pilot Privileges, Limitations, and Currency
Follow a private pilot's certificate, medical, aircraft, flight-review, passenger-currency, and expense-sharing checks for a proposed trip, then decide whether the pilot is proficient enough to make it.
- Episode 20: Aeromedical Factors and Human Performance
Assess pilot fitness before departure, recognize aeromedical warning signs in flight, and choose an early landing when performance becomes uncertain.
- Episode 19: Cross-Country Planning, Fuel, and Diversions
Build a fuel-aware VFR cross-country plan, compare actual progress with the prediction, and execute an early diversion when weather and operating trends change.
- Episode 18: VOR, GPS, Radar Services, and Navigation Systems
A fictional daytime VFR flight uses VOR, GPS, TIS-B traffic information, and VFR radar services as cross-checks without turning any display or advisory into a substitute for visual flying.
- Episode 17: Charts, Pilotage, and Dead Reckoning
A fictional daytime cross-country turns a current sectional, visual checkpoints, wind-corrected headings, groundspeed, and ETA into one practical navigation feedback loop.
- Episode 16: Airspace, Equipment, and VFR Weather Minimums
A scenario-based lesson connecting airspace position, entry and communication requirements, aircraft equipment, VFR weather minimums, Special VFR, special use airspace, and other charted areas.
- Episode 15: Traffic Patterns, Nontowered Operations, and Right of Way
A scenario-led lesson on building a traffic picture at a nontowered airport, joining the established pattern, communicating on CTAF, and using visual scanning and right-of-way rules to create spacing early.
- Episode 14: Airport Operations and Surface Safety
A scenario-led lesson on building a surface-position picture, translating taxi clearances, recognizing signs and markings, and using runway and taxiway lighting at day and night airports.
- Episode 13: Weather Information and Preflight Decisions
A route-based weather briefing lesson connecting observations, forecasts, advisories, and updates to practical preflight and continue-or-divert decisions.