Private Pilot videos

Short, captioned lessons for the FAA Private Pilot knowledge test. There is no audio; everything you need is on screen.

• Angle of attack and the stall
  1:12 · §2.3 of the Private Pilot study guide
• VOR and HSI orientation
  1:17 · §14.4 of the Private Pilot study guide
• The vertical S on the PFD
  1:19 · §6.3 of the Private Pilot study guide
• The three axes
  1:12 · §1.3 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Left-turning tendencies
  1:10 · §3.4 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Load factor in turns
  1:08 · §3.2 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Spin phases and recovery
  1:12 · §3.3 of the Private Pilot study guide
• The traffic pattern
  1:20 · §8.2 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Airspace classes
  1:24 · §9.1 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Pitot-static failures
  1:26 · §5.5 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Compass errors
  1:26 · §5.7 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Thunderstorm life cycle
  1:18 · §10.6 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Wake turbulence
  1:24 · §3.6 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Density altitude
  1:20 · Chapter 13 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Reading a sectional
  1:28 · §14.1 of the Private Pilot study guide
• Gyroscopic rigidity and precession
  1:03 · §5.6 of the Private Pilot study guide
• The four-stroke cycle in a Lycoming O-320
  0:44 · §4.1 of the Private Pilot study guide

This lesson is animated in code, with captions on screen and no audio. Aircraft, cloud, runway and scenery images are AI-generated illustrations made for teaching; they are not photographs and not exact depictions of any aircraft. Instruments are drawn in code. Sectional chart excerpts are FAA charts (public domain) and are not for navigation.