Alan Cabrera

TRAINING CONSOLE

Alan Cabrera
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10/09/2025

A couple of lessons into CAX.

  • common carriage vs private carriage
  • AC 120-12 is a big one
  • wet lease vs dry lease
  • privileges for CAX and PPL
  • 119.1(i) is for exceptions.  If not an exception, you must have an operational certificate to make money as a CAX pilot.
  • discussed some maneuvers per the CAX ACS in-depth:
    • short field landings
    • emergency descent
    • stalls
    • slow flight
  • remebmber to keep a clean cockpit;
    • PAX briefing before startup
    • takeoff/emergency briefing to brief emergency and takeoff type (we will start making it almost always a performance takeoff)
    • heading and altitude bugs
    • cruise and before landing checklists
    • pre-maneuver before ANY maneuver

We will keep building on these foundations.  Nice work!

10/05/2025

A little bit of ground today introducing the new CAX maneuvers before intro flight for the same.

  • Chandelles
  • Lazy Eights
  • Steep Turns w/ 50 degree bank
  • Steep Spirals
  • 8’s On Pylons
  • Power off 180’s

Overall flight was good, good introduction.  They will all take some practice and further review but you fly the plane well overall.  Couple of things I noticed:

  • make sure to set altitude and heading bugs ALWAYS, including before takeoff
  • brief PAX briefing and takeoff briefing EVERY FLIGHT, mention hotspots on taxi if needed
  • Emergency descent:  we will review in POH and ACS.  Vno is 129 KIAS so we should be pitching for at least 119, but in general I like to get to +/- 125 to keep us within standards.  Rolling out, push forward to unload the G’s, then pull out of the dive

09/28/2025

First lesson of CAX!

  • laid out some structure for the upcoming training
  • reviewed requirements of 61.129
  • delved into the PAVE (legal/current/safe) structure chart
    • Made it through airplane, will pick up at environemt

next flight/ground:

  • CAX maneuvers intro
  • ground, finish PAVE then:
    • aerodynamics / LIFT equation
    • CAX privileges, part 119, and common carriage

06/26/2025

Had to cancel our flight this morning due to extremely Low IFR throughout the entire region, no back up plans and extended time of poor VIS and low CEIL.

Nice meeting you — good work today.  We pivoted and spent some time on the sim.  VOR use including determine where we are, where we are going, and how to get there — flew an IAP the VOR RWY12 KPRC, which included a DME arc and then we wrapped it up with another unpublished DME arc.

  • always center the needle with a ‘from indication’ when figuring out where we are in relation
  • center the needle with a ‘to’ if you are cleared direct
  • don’t look at the back side, spin the CDI around if you have to
  • ’the 5 T’s’ — do them every time you change heading.  Turn, Twist, Time, Throttle, Talk.  It will keep you from forgetting something critical and make it easier so you know what you’re doing next.
  • visualize and draw out the DME arc, always fly the arc with ‘from’ indications.
  • remeber, the initial turn has to be 100 degrees instead of 90 to stay flying 90 from the radial you’re perpendicular to next
  • with an HSI/glass cockpit, keep the CDI ‘level as the horizon’ and you’ll always be 90 degrees from the radial you have set, then just watch the distance and make adjustments from there