I am a flight instructor, who while crop dusting and patrolling pipelines, became dissatisfied with the generic flight instructional training techniques and curriculum. The one size fits all is oriented toward big airplanes and the corporate/airline side of the general aviation industry. Finding myself more and more relying on hard learned experience instead of the very limited instructional materials available, I decided to write my own textbook. The result was Contact Flying.
The objectives of this blog are:
- To make the availability of this text available.
- To more easily answer the many questions of the many readers of the text.
- To obtain criticism and comments on the techniques taught by the text.
- To provide a forum for discussion of both my techniques and yours concerning flying generally but especially that flying that takes place in the little known world of legitimate flight operations in the airspace from 500' AGL to the surface.
- To give options to those whose job is to fly very near the ground, all day, every day.
- To enhance safety by covering flight techniques many instructors are unable or reluctant to cover.
Contact Flying
by Jim Dulin
Table of Contents
Foreward
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1 Stalls and Slow Flight
Chapter 2 The Takeoff
Dutch Rolls
The Energy Management (No Load Factor) Turn
The Apparent Rate of Closure Approach
The Go Around
The Downwind Turn
The Low Level Forced Landing
Low Power Mountain Flying
The Cross Country
Agricultural Operations
Pipeline Patrol
The New Frontier
