On Mar 19, 1:03*am, Jack Allison
wrote:
Way to go Hai. *Congrats to both you and Rick. *I just passed my CP
written and am hoping to start the flying portion in late April. *Thanks

Jack,
Congratulations on passing your CP written exams. IMO, this is the
hardest part of the training not so much because of the materials but
because it is so darn tedious and boring. It was like eating 100%
whole bran cereals without any milk ;-).
For my flight training, I found two books being quite useful. One
is the ASA visualized flight maneuvers handbook. It's good to have it
as a reference to review just before doing each maneuver. Another one
is the "Flying the Commercial Flight Test" by Ron Fowler. I bought
this book used by searching through www.campusi.com for something like
$5 including shipping and handling.
If you can get an instructor to give you an introductory
commerical maneuver training session, you can go out and do some
practices either on your own or with another pilot. This will give
you a feel for those maneuvers before starting the official training.
Some portions of the maneuvers are just review or improvements of
'regular' stuffs like stalls, slow flights, short field, soft field
take off and landing. The 180 degrees off approach is just a standard
power off landing with precision.
Have fun with your training. The