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Aviation

Aviation

Learn everything you want about Aviation with the wikiHow Aviation Category. Learn about topics such as How to Make a Drone, How to Fly an Airplane, How to Listen to Your Local Air Traffic Control, and more with our helpful step-by-step instructions with photos and videos.

Articles about Aviation

How to

Make a Drone
How to

Fly an Airplane
Expert
How to

Listen to Your Local Air Traffic Control
How to

Identify a Boeing from an Airbus
How to

Build an Airplane
How to

Add TSA PreCheck to Southwest
Expert
How to

Get on the Delta Standby List
Expert
How to

Navigate Using a VOR
How to

Survive a Plane Crash
How to

Fly a Helicopter
Expert
How to

Land an Airplane in an Emergency
Expert
How to

Fly a Cessna
Expert
How to

Calculate Aircraft Payload
How to

Read an Aviation Routine Weather Report (METAR)
How to

Understand US Military Aircraft Designations
How to

Land a Cessna 172
Expert
How to

Fly a Hot Air Balloon
How to

Get Your FCC General Radiotelephone Operator License at Home
How to

Find Out Which Planes Are Flying Overhead
How to

Identify an Airbus A320 Family Aircraft
How to

Fly a Small Drone
How to

Become a Helicopter Pilot
Expert
How to

Fly a Holding Pattern
How to

Track a Flight in Progress
How to

Get a Private Pilot’s License (USA)
How to

Control a Drone
How to

Take off in a Cessna 172
How to

Be an Aircraft Spotter
How to

Spin and Recover a Cessna 150
How to

Build a Grass Landing Strip
How to

Land a Boeing 747
How to

Prepare Yourself for Your First Flight
Expert
How to

Use a Graphic Flight Computer to Find Ground Speed and True Heading
How to

Repair Minor Aircraft Skin Damage
How to

Get a Private Pilot's License (General)
How to

Prepare to Fly an Airplane in an Emergency
Expert
How to

Fly a Cessna 310
Expert
How to

Execute a Go Around in a Cessna 172
How to

Identify a McDonnell Douglas