The subject of whether the airplane is good to go is complex, but if you break it down and approach it systematically, it’s something you can master.
Many flight instructors don’t know how to prepare you for your FAA Practical Test; moreover, some don’t care. How to tell the difference.
It’s easy to fix a bad approach; it’s a lot harder to salvage one
It’s not worth the academic argument to banter accident statistics related to non-instrument-rated pilots inadvertently flying into Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC), since the data we have is notoriously incomplete; however, we can probably agree that this scenario “too often” results in fatalities. I’m disappointed the new Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards (ACS) didn’t move Flight […]
We’ve been talking about how to survive our addiction to flying for a long time now, since the beginning of aviation, in fact. We’ve called it Airsense, Headwork, Judgment, Threat and Error Management, and other names not fit to print, but now we have a relatively new label for it: Risk Management. As the FAA […]
