Introduction to Technical General

Hey, what is up, folks hope you all are doing well. If you have read all of my last few blogs, I can say with full certainty that you have gotten a pretty grasp of the basics that we will need to start one of the main topics of our CPL syllabus. If you haven't gone through the last few blogs, I highly recommend you give them a rain check. Alright now that we've established a solid concept of the basics, let's get started with the first-course topic, that being TECHNICAL GENERAL.

Before we get started, let me give you a quick overview of what we will be talking about for the next few months. Technical General consists of 4 main subtopics:

Jet Engines
Propeller Engines
Aircraft Systems
Aerodynamics

We'll be starting with Jet engines from the next blog and will go through all the subtopics eventually to wrap up Tech-Gen completely until then keep dreaming big, and this is your Soaring Pilot signing off 🛫💖.

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