When Asking for a Higher Altitude Can Bite You Hard
The challenge to pilots of airplanes that fly the mid-teens and low-twenties is to know when climbing high is avoiding risk and when it’s just making it worse.
Proficiency
Our pilot training articles are designed to help you improve your flying proficiency. Bone up on beneficial skills as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid as a pilot. Fly right with articles on topics such as dealing with ice and the most dangerous things you can do as a pilot.
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Unlearning Decisiveness
We pilots pride ourselves in sticking to our guns. Perhaps to a fault.
Colliding With Hard Truths
Maybe none of your outside issues or life complications are your fault. You know what? That doesn’t stop them from being your problem. Here’s why you’ve got to just deal with it.
When Being Meticulous Isn‘t Enough
The crash of a 206 shows the importance of knowing your engine…and your emergency checklists
The Go-Around That Didn‘t Go Well
The investigation of a prop strike and subsequent crash results in more questions than answers
We All Need To Be Weather Geeks Now
From airfactsjournal.com. Disruption is a hot topic these days, but the 16th century had plenty of it, too. In the span of a generation, the printing press (and the Protestant Reformation) fundamentally changed the way many Christians practiced their religion. Instead of listening to a priest interpret the Bible, the average churchgoer could read it […]
