ESSENTIAL Aviation Terminology with Mike Thompson!

There are HUNDREDS of aviation terms you need to know and understand as a pilot. From simple definitions to entire acronyms and concepts that are essential for understanding aviation. Today, aviation expert Mike Thompson is going to take you through some of the most fun and interesting aviation terms from A to Z!

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0:00 - Introduction
0:32 - The official language of aviation
0:46 - Ailerons
1:19 - Automatic Direction Finder (ADF)
1:47 - Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS)
2:24 - Airspace
2:37 - Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT)
3:12 - Base Leg
3:26 - Cabin Crew
3:48 - Checkride
4:19 - Cockpit
4:28 - Distress
6:03 - Drag
6:12 - Elevator
6:27 - Empennage
7:02 - Firewall
7:23 - Flying Dirty
7:49 - Fuselage
8:11 - George
9:19 - General Aviation
9:52 - Glass cockpit
10:06 - Handoff
10:20 - Horizontal Stabilizer
10:35 - Hypoxia
10:52 - Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)
11:22 - Indicated Airspeed
11:48 - Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC)
12:10 - Jet
12:16 - Joystick
12:49 - Knots Indicated Airspeed (KIAS)
13:30 - Longitudinal Axis
13:47 - Magneto
14:12 - Mean Sea Level
14:40 - METAR
14:54 - NOTAM
15:18 - Operating Limitations
15:33 - Overshoot
15:43 - Pilot in Command
15:56 - Pitch
16:17 - Pitot Tube
17:18 - Propeller
17:52 - Quadruplane
17:57 - Roll
18:21 - Rudder
18:35 - Runway
18:48 - Squawk
20:21 - Stability
20:43 - Stall
20:59 - Tail
21:28 - Turbulence
22:11 - Trim Tab
22:29 - Upwind Leg
22:46 - Universal Time Coordinated (UTC)
23:37 - Urgent
24:58 - Visual Flight Rules (VFR)
25:13 - Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC)
25:44 - Wind Shear
25:55 - XC (Cross Country)
27:01 - Yoke
27:21 - Zulu Time
27:40 - Summary

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