How to Perform an S-TURN + Tips You've Never Heard! 

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Thanks Mike!

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Thanks Kevin! I appreciate that!

@@FreePilotTraining are you going to be around for Thunder Over The Rock? I am planning on taking my wife and kids to it.

😆 it’s a good one. I think I got it at Rural King

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You’re welcome! So glad I could help! Let me know how that check ride goes!

@@FreePilotTraining Hi Josh, just wanted to give a quick update. I had my practical exam on Dec 17th. I aced the oral portion of the exam, 2.5 hours. The examiner complimented my preparedness. Your channel played a big part in my success! I have watched and rewatched lessons here and your videos really helped me to understand a lot of the more difficult concepts. I ended up having to take a discontinuance. I went through the pre-flight and when I was in run up my attitude indicator started misbehaving. Although that instrument is not required for day VFR per 91.205, the examiner asked me what I thought I should do given the gauge wasn't functioning correctly. I told him that I thought we should discontinue. It seemed to me it would be challenging to complete maneuvers like steep turns, recovery from unusual attitudes and flying by reference to instruments without a functioning attitude indicator. He agreed and noted good ADM on my discontinuance letter. He is looking for a date in January for me to complete the flight portion of the exam. Thank you for all of your help!!

Thank you! First, find the elevation in that area. Towers are a good way to do that because the VFR sectional shows their height in AGL and MSL. For example a tower that is 1000 MSL and 400 AGL means that the elevation is 600 feet. If I want to fly 600 feet AGL I simply add 600 to the elevation in that area. So 1,200 MSL

Love the tip! Thanks for the comment!

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thanks! I thought about that after the fact! It would’ve definitely made the video better

@@FreePilotTraining lol no worries still a great video and informative. Cant wait to use these tricks when i get back up in the air again

If you are in Alaska, I’ll take you up on that lol

Great point! Thank you!

You should be able to tell if your “S” is the same size from the airplane, but ForeFlight is a great tool that can be used to see exactly how good your s-turn really was

No problem! If you trim the control pressures off, the plane is much easier to control with precision

@@FreePilotTraining thank you!

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Great question. Yes, it IS allowed. Check the Airman Certification Standards. Should you be adjusting power? Not really. It makes it more difficult. In the video, the wind is extremely gusty and I had to adjust my power because my airspeed was getting blasted by the wind gusts. I adjusted my power to keep myself within limits.

@@FreePilotTraining thanks for your wonderful input

They’re coming, but it might be a while. I’m hoping to have more time to really start making more videos more regularly

Eventually!

@@Navy1977 chandells, lazy eights, eights on pylons

I’ll start writing the script for engine failure. Might be a month or so before I can knock it out

Yeah, those work well. A lot of states don’t have great section line markings though

Yes. You have to perform one of the three ground reference maneuvers

@@FreePilotTraining I forgot how those were done. Maybe next show that demonstration in another video.

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@@FreePilotTraining Perfect channel by the way, aviation is a way of life

😆 guess I do kinda look like him. Lol or he looks like me

Never mind scrap Joey Gallo you look more like Anthony Rizzo 😂

@@jackhutch1368 lol I’ve heard I look like the Kentucky Ballistics guy

Thanks! Yeah, I should’ve been screen recording

Experience 😆

@@FreePilotTraining fair, haha.. how many (thousands) of hours do you have? ever considered the airlines??

Nope. Not sure why I prefer turning right first

The reason I guessed that (wrong) was that right-handed motorcycle riders are usuallu more comfortable with left turns (me included) while left-handed prefer right turns. Anyway, thanks for a great video! Cheers.

Well, it doesn’t matter how I feel about them, they are a maneuver that is required to be taught to student pilots. I’ll have to try the Flyover Turnbacks

@@FreePilotTraining GRM Turnbacks are used to practice for Box Canon Turnbacks and EFATO/LOTOT Turnbacks. Also help for Short Approaches, and low weather circlings Turnbacks. Many accidents by doing them wrong way. DPE will be impressed.

@@FreePilotTraining Try the Flyover Teardrop Turnback first. With flaps 10 and Vglide speed. Better practice over a simulated runway section, flyover it, then Teardrop Turnback to fly over again. Always plan to align with a headwind, avoid tailwind alignments. So if crosswind, after flyover you turn away from the crosswind on first leg of the teardrop, then turn headwind to align on the second leg. Have fun.

​@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 If it's too easy then you probably don't need these videos, they are for student pilots like me trying to learn. Doesnt matter how easy it is, I need to learn to do this properly to get my pilot license.

@@FreePilotTraining I was a student of the Emergencylowmaneuvering CFI in 1996. At the beginning i didnt want to learn turnbacks due "I might not need this maneuver at at all". But then i saw many accidents on those maneuvers by doing them wrong. Not only on EFATO, but also on badly done Box canyon Turns which ARE TURNBACKS too. And those circlings turnbacks after flying almost over the runway at 400 agl, but then have to turnback to land on opposite due winds. Many accidents by "I dont think i will need that maneuver at all guys". And many by pilots with thousands of hours but dont know turnbacks.