Boldmethod vs Pitot

Want to improve your piloting skills? Then the Boldmethod app is for you. With over 50 hours of videos and online training courses, you'll walk away with the knowledge that makes you a better pilot. Access your Boldmethod training courses in one app, watch the latest training videos, and test your knowledge with quizzes. What's new? The Feed and Challenges tabs are the place to start learning or to brush up on your aviation knowledge. When you're ready to take the next step, sign up for courses to truly master your pilot knowledge. MASTERING TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS Do you have a perfect landing every time? Neither do we. This video course helps you master your takeoffs and landings. Whether you're trying to stop floating past your landing point or trying to smooth out your touchdown, you'll learn how to fix any of your takeoff and landing problems with this simple-to-use online course. The course breaks down takeoffs and landings into sections: Normal Takeoffs Traffic Patterns Normal Landings Crosswind Takeoffs and Landings Short Field Takeoffs and Landings Soft Field Takeoffs and Landings Non-Standard Takeoffs and Landings Night Takeoffs and Landings NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM Our airspace course covers everything you need to know about the National Airspace System, including Class A-G airspace, Special Use Airspace, and Other Airspace. It's an excellent way to prepare for your private pilot checkride and keep your flying skills sharp. The course breaks down airspace into sections: Class A airspace Class B airspace Class C airspace Class D airspace Class E airspace Class G airspace Special use airspace Other airspace AVIATION WEATHER REPORTS AND FORECASTS Our weather course covers everything you need to know about aviation weather, including METARs, TAFs, Pilot Reports, Graphical Forecasts For Aviation, Winds Aloft Forecasts, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, and Convective SIGMETs. It's an excellent way to prepare for your private pilot checkride and keep your flying skills sharp. The course breaks down aviation weather into sections: METARs TAFs PIREPs Graphical Forecasts For Aviation Winds Aloft Forecasts AIRMETs, SIGMETs, and Convective SIGMETs VFR CHARTS AND PUBLICATIONS Our charts course covers everything you need to know about VFR charts and publications, including sectional charts, terminal area charts, the Digital Chart Supplement, and NOTAMs. The course breaks down publications into sections: Sectional Charts Terminal Area Charts Digital Chart Supplement NOTAMs MOUNTAIN WEATHER Do you want to feel more comfortable flying around the high country? Boldmethod's Mountain Weather course helps make that happen. You'll learn how to evaluate mountain weather during your planning and while you're in flight. You'll also learn how terrain generates updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, and storms, and changes the direction of the wind throughout the day. The course breaks down weather into sections: Mountain Waves Strong Surface Winds Updrafts, Downdrafts, And Turbulence Convergence Zones Coastal Mountain Wind Systems The North American Monsoon Daily (Diurnal) Winds In Valleys Mountain Thunderstorms

From AutoPilot: offline flight training drills made by a CFII. Three instruments run off two lines of air. When one of those lines blocks, the needles keep moving, and they lie in a specific, predictable direction. This app teaches which one, and why. Seven chapters, each built on live physics rather than stored answers. Move a slider and every gauge on the screen recomputes. THE CHAPTERS • The System: two lines, three instruments, and which one taps which • The Altimeter: sealed wafers, the Kollsman window, and one inch per thousand feet • Airspeed Indicator: the only differential instrument, and what it is actually subtracting • Vertical Speed Indicator: a calibrated leak, and the lag it buys • Blockages: what each failure actually looks like on the panel • Corrective Action: pitot heat, alternate static source, and the last resort • Preflight & Regs: 91.411, 91.413, and the walk-around THE BENCH A sandbox with every input exposed. Set an altitude, a true airspeed and a Kollsman setting. Ice the pitot mast, block the drain, seal the static port, open the alternate source. All three gauges respond together, and a table under them prints what the altimeter and the airspeed indicator read, what working ones would read, and the error. This is where the numbers stop being memorized. A sealed static port and a 300 ft climb reads 300 feet low and 36 knots slow, and the app does not look that up: it computes it from the pressures. THE QUIZ 42 questions tagged by chapter. A wrong answer offers the chapter that explains it, and the scorecard lists the chapters worth a second look. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no tracking. The app makes no network requests of its own: the chapters, the bench and the quiz work in airplane mode, on the ramp, in a hangar with no signal. Nothing is collected and there is no in-app purchase. The regulatory chapter names the 14 CFR sections rather than paraphrasing them, and the airspeed markings and V-speeds are the Cessna 172S figures from its Pilot's Operating Handbook. Built for private and instrument students, and for the CFI who has to explain the alternate static source one more time.