PPGS Lesson 8.4 | Airspace: Radar & ADSB

Welcome back to Epic Flight Academy’s Private Pilot Ground School! In this Airspace lesson, Certified Flight Instructor Mike Thompson explains how Radar and ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) systems help aircraft and air traffic control track position, altitude, and movement during flight. You’ll learn the differences between primary and secondary radar, how transponders operate, and what emergency squawk codes pilots must know. Mike also covers airport surveillance radar, air route surveillance radar, flight following, and NextGen ADS-B technology, giving students a complete understanding of modern aircraft surveillance systems. #PrivatePilotGroundSchool #EpicFlightAcademy #PilotTraining #AviationEducation #Airspace #LearnToFly 📘 Video Chapters 0:00 – Introduction with Instructor Mike Thompson 0:52 – Radar Overview 1:00 – What Is Radar? 2:44 – Types of Radar 2:53 – Primary Radar 2:59 – Secondary Radar 3:17 – Airport Surveillance Radar 3:44 – Air Route Surveillance Radar 4:51 – Transponder Operation 6:18 – Important Emergency Codes to Know 7:43 – Flight Following 9:09 – NextGen 9:48 – What Is ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast)? 🎓 Start Your Pilot Training Journey: https://epicflightacademy.com/prequal... Learn more about Epic Flight Academy’s Private Pilot Ground School Course: https://epicflightacademy.com/private... This course is taught by Epic Flight Academy's own Mike Thompson. Mike Thompson is the author of "Telling Is Not Teaching", which promotes the idea that the “new school” of teaching that embraces electronic technology cannot sacrifice the “old school” of human relationships because the human brain stills learns in largely the same way that it has for millennia. "Telling Is Not Teaching": https://www.amazon.com/Telling-Not-Te... To begin YOUR pilot training, visit our website: https://epicflightacademy.com/pilot-t... Enjoying our content? Like this video and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel so we can continue to produce more Epic content!