Ground Reference Maneuvers - Straight From the Airplane Flying Handbook

Ground reference maneuvers are often taught as a collection of separate maneuvers—rectangular courses, turns around a point, S-turns across a road, and eights around pylons etc. But are they really different maneuvers? In this episode, we go straight to the FAA’s Airplane Flying Handbook to look at ground reference maneuvers from the source. No matter the shape, the various elemental ground reference maneuvers are really teaching us the same fundamental skills. So rather than focusing o...