Tag "accident"

July 14, 2013

Three things that scare pilots

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Pilots don’t agree on much, but if you were to ask what are the scariest things that could potentially occur in an airplane you will almost universally get this answer: Fire, Structural Failure, and Midair (in no particular order). Not that we sit…

November 29, 2012

Checklist Discipline (updated)

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Checklist Discipline  (Update) Fellow pilot and friend Mike Wojcik contributed to this piece. See his work below regarding a checklist he developed for the Tecnam. Ever thought about your checklist? I mean really thought about it? It is much more than a faded…

November 9, 2012

Handling an Aircraft Emergency

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Handling an Aircraft Emergency Few of us really know how we’ll react in a true emergency. Thankfully, they are extremely rare in our modern GA airplanes. But will you be prepared when that day comes? The day that something goes terribly wrong and…

November 4, 2012

Flying with Finesse

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Flying with Finesse I love it when we refer to flying as art. It distills away all the sorid technical details and leaves us with the one thing that keeps us coming back, our physical connection with the flying machine. This connection should…

October 18, 2012

Complacency: The Silent Killer

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Complacency: The Silent Killer Let’s face facts, flying can be risky. In spite of statistics that say flying is safer than driving – which are arguable, there are elements of flying that are swiftly unforgiving. We have done well in recent decades to…

October 16, 2012

Misadventures of a C-172 Flight

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! Misadventures of a C-172 Flight As a starving flight instructor working my tail off to make ends meet, I did some ‘interesting’ flying. (Editors note: no specific dates, locations, or names are used in this story to protect me from any bad-guys that…

October 6, 2012

Mid-Air Collision: Disaster Averted

Check out their line of headsets, camera cables, and LED lighting today! On Friday, October 5th, two Piper aircraft collided in the skies over Arizona. At least one of the aircraft was on an IFR training flight. As you view the pictures you’ll realize how miraculous it was that no one was injured. One aircraft…