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The V-g diagram, the prop governor, performance charts, weight and balance, METARs and TAFs, VFR minimums, Part 135 rules and the chandelle. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 69 illustrated pages.
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Every page has a big drawing and a box with the numbers, rules and steps you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 65 topics.
It's 10 p.m., the app asks about the constant-speed prop: oil pressure drops, so what does the prop do? You've seen this answer before, and it's gone.
The handbook describes the governor in paragraphs: flyweights, speeder spring, pilot valve, oil, counterweights. Five moving parts, explained with words only. By the third paragraph you've lost which way the oil pushes.
In the book, the governor is cut open on one page. Flyweights, spring and pilot valve drawn in place, with the oil path in color. Next to it, one line in a box: on most singles, no oil pressure means low pitch, high RPM.
The rest of the complex airplane works the same way: the turbo and its wastegate, the retractable gear, the flaps, manifold pressure, the throttle-prop-mixture order. Each one has its own page.
So when the question comes back worded differently, or the DPE asks it out loud, you picture the governor and explain it without opening the handbook again.
The certificate, aerodynamics and the V-g diagram, complex systems, performance and weight & balance, weather, airspace and aeromedical, regulations, commercial maneuvers and a final review: 69 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
The DPE puts a loading problem in front of you: 3,000 lb airplane, the CG has to move one inch forward, and you can move bags 60 inches, from the aft baggage area to the front seat. How much weight do you shift? He waits for the number and the why.
In the book you open the weight-shift page and the formula is drawn on the airplane, with that exact example solved step by step: 50 lb shifted, every number in its place.
Same with density altitude, the takeoff distance chart, the VFR minimums table, the chandelle and the four elements of common carriage: each one on its own page.
Commercial Pilot Illustrated is 69 illustrated pages in 9 parts, one topic per page, and it ends with the frequent errors on performance, W&B and regs, plus a test-day checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What changes from Private to Commercial, the knowledge test at a glance, the 250 hours of 61.129, the second-class medical, the no-instrument limitation and your endorsements.
The four forces, angle of attack, load factor and stall speed in a turn, the V-g diagram line by line, maneuvering speed and weight, left-turning tendencies, stability and wake turbulence.
The constant-speed prop and its governor, the throttle-prop-mixture order, manifold pressure, turbo and wastegate, retractable gear, flaps, fuel, electrical, pressurization and oxygen.
Pressure and density altitude, any performance chart in 5 steps, takeoff, climb, cruise and landing charts, Vx and Vy, and weight and balance with weight shift and fuel burn.
Stability and cloud bases, fronts and air masses, thunderstorms, icing and fog, METAR and TAF decoded line by line, GFA, AIRMETs and SIGMETs, wind shear and microbursts.
VFR minimums in one table, airspace classes and entry requirements, special use airspace and Special VFR, the wind triangle, VOR, GPS and lost procedures, hypoxia, disorientation and ADM.
Holding out and common carriage, what you can fly for hire without a 135 certificate, currency, required equipment, inspections, fuel reserves, logbooks and NTSB 830.
Steep turns, the chandelle, the lazy eight, eights on pylons and pivotal altitude, the power-off 180 and the steep spiral.
Frequent errors on performance, W&B and regulations, how to explain the why to the DPE, and a test-day checklist.
At the end of the book: A final review of frequent errors on performance, W&B and regs, plus a test-day checklist.
Practice with questions in the style of the knowledge test and see why each answer is right, with the book page to review.
The privileges, VFR minimums, required equipment and key speeds on printable cards, so you can review everything at a glance before the test and the oral.
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PDF by email: We email you Commercial Pilot Illustrated as a PDF, together with the two free books. It's a single payment: no installments, no extra charges.
Every topic of the CAX has its page, so after work you study one drawing at a time instead of memorizing app answers.
The V-g diagram, the governor and the common carriage rules drawn so you can explain the why to the DPE, not just recite it.
Regs, inspections, VFR minimums and performance charts on one page each, to print and keep in your flight bag or at the FBO.
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Yes. It starts from what changes between Private and Commercial and goes straight to the Commercial topics: the V-g diagram, complex systems, performance, W&B, weather, Parts 61, 91, 119 and 135, and the maneuvers.
It's checked against the current FAA Commercial Pilot for Airplane Category ACS (FAA-S-ACS-7B), 14 CFR Parts 61, 91, 119 and 135 as currently published in the eCFR, the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA-H-8083-25) and the Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3).
No. It's an independent illustrated study book. It's not published, approved or endorsed by the FAA.
No. It's study material that sits next to your training. It doesn't give you the endorsement you need to take the knowledge test or the checkride: that still comes from your CFI or your ground school. It doesn't replace your instructor, the POH/AFM or current charts, and it's not for real-world navigation: charts and W&B examples are for study only.
No. They're exam-style questions written for this book, with explained answers. The FAA's test bank isn't public.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as a PDF by email, to the address you enter at checkout. It's a one-time payment, no subscription.
Keep them. The app tells you if an answer is right; the book shows you why, on one page you can find again. When the question comes worded differently, or the DPE asks it out loud, you picture the governor, the V-g diagram or the weight-shift drawing instead of hunting for a memorized answer. And unlike a video, you can flip to the page in ten seconds the night before the oral.
It's a PDF, not a shipped book. Read it on your iPad or tablet, or print it at home or at a print shop and keep the pages you need in your flight bag or at the FBO.
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No more rereading without anything sticking.
The V-g diagram: you see it drawn and you've got it.
You walk into the test and the oral knowing where everything is.
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