Here are a few of the terms you're likely to encounter during your training with USFA:
Logbook: A register book that lists a pilot's flight time, instructor endorsements, and completed training topics.
Main Gear: The landing gear underneath the fuselage of the aircraft; usually under the cockpit.
Medical Certificate: A legal document issued by an aviation doctor stating a pilot is physically fit to fly. A valid medical certificate is required to be in the possession of the pilot during all flights, and it serves as a student pilot certificate while the holder is training.
Multiengine Aircraft: An aircraft with two or more engines.
Non-towered Airport: An airport without air traffic control; pilots fly into and out of these airport using standard operating procedures to avoid one another.
Nose Gear: The landing gear nearest the nose of the aircraft in a tricycle-gear airplane.
Part 61: A section of aviation regulations describing pilot training at flight schools, including subject matter and flight-time minimums. Most flight schools train their students according to Part 61.
Part 141: A section of aviation regulations describing training at flight academies, such as universities. Because of the intensive, structured nature of these training programs, their students are permitted lower minimum flight-time requirements than those at Part 61 schools; the material covered, though, is identical, since all student pilots must meet the performance criteria published in the Practical Test Standards.
Pilotage: Navigating by reference to a map and visible landmarks.
Pitch: The up and down movement of the aircraft's nose about the center of gravity.
Practical Exam: The "driver's test" a new pilot takes in the airplane to earn a pilot certificate. Also known as a "check ride."
Practical Test Standards: The guidelines published by the Federal Aviation Administration outlining the minimum pilot performance on practical exams.
Private Pilot: A pilot who has completed the Federal Aviation Administration's requirements for the private certificate, including a minimum of 40 hours of flight time and passing a knowledge exam and flight test.
Recurrent Training: Annual or semi-annual training used to refresh a pilot's knowledge and skills in a variety of flight situations, including in-flight emergencies.
Regional Airline: A commuter airline.
Roll: The rotation of the airplane around its nose-to-tail axis.
Rudder: Section of the tail that moves the nose to the left or right. Rudder pedals: Foot pedals in the cockpit that control the rudder, brakes, and steering of the aircraft.
Sailplane: An airplane that flies without assistance of an engine. Also known as a glider.
Stability: The ability of an aircraft to return to level flight on its own after the controls are moved.
Tailwheel Airplane: An airplane with a small wheel underneath the tail of the aircraft, and two larger wheels under the wings. Also called "conventional gear" aircraft.
Type Rating: A rating to a pilot's certificate that states he or she is able to fly a particular type of sophisticated or large aircraft, such as a Cessna Citation X business jet.
Unimproved Airport: An airport with runways made of grass, dirt, or gravel, instead of concrete or asphalt.
Vertical Stabilizers: The upright portion of the aircraft's "tail."
Visual Flight: A flight made by referencing the horizon and other outside landmarks.
Yaw: The level, "wagging" back-and-forth movement of the aircraft's nose about its center of gravity.
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