Going Direct: Just Say No To The FAA‘s Plan To Test Pilots For Drugs
The proposed program, presented as a way to study the danger of pilot drug use in aircraft accidents, is bad oversight, bad science, and bad news.
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It‘s a Bird, It‘s a Plane, It‘s “¦ No, Wait … It Is A Plane, Stuck In A Tree!
A pretty Super Cub stuck in a tree creates unforeseen complications for would be rescuers
Homebrewed Loss of Control
A non-instrument rated pilot in extreme mountainous terrain did about as well as you’d expect.
Bad Spate Of GA Accidents
A pair of deadly crashes of light twins shakes aviation communities.
How Cirrus Jet Grounding Is Part Of 737 Max Story
The move by the FAA is aggressive and precisely the right thing to do. Here’s why it happened.
Five Reasons Why Last Week‘s American Near-Disaster Is So Scary
Why the Airbus went out of control on takeoff at JFK and why its pilots responded as they did are both cause for great concern.
Lessons Learned: A Different Kind Of Slow Flight
How a sim partner was the best teacher.
The Big Lie Behind The Story Of Wrong Way Corrigan
The cover story is no mystery. The reason for it is!
Game Of Thrones Returns, And It‘s All About Flying!
One of the key elements of this mega-monster HBO hit is that it’s got dragons, and they fly, and people ride them!
Going Direct: Innovation Here We Come
It’s good to know people who went through aviation history and who saw big changes. I’m talking transformative technology introductions, like all-metal monocoque construction, the opposed air-cooled engine, the turbine engine, GPS and computers in the cockpit. Advances like these have reshaped aviation again and again since even before Kitty Hawk. Still, every time a […]
