This week I get the privilege of repeating a tradition that has gone on for the last 16 years -recurrent simulator training. I don’t know of many professions where you literally put your career on the line twice a year in exchange for keeping the right to practice your craft for-hire. Take a high-level journey…
Editor: Each year the AOPA Air Safety Foundation publishes a free report capturing accident data and statistics. This edition of the report is covering accidents in 2010 (this delay is to allow accident investigations to close). I highly recommend reading this report. There is a good deal we can learn from the numbers. Also, they…
Preflight Inspections: It’s What You Don’t See That Can Hurt You Doing an adequate preflight inspection is one of the tenants to good airmanship. We pride ourselves on knowing every nut, bolt, and screw on our airplanes, but how well do we really do with our preflights? Let’s examine some of nuances and even some…
This is my second episode of the iFLYblog.com Audiocast. To be fair, this won’t really be a podcast in the traditional sense. The audiocast will simply be an audio version of posts that are here on the blog. The truth is, lots of folks like to listen to content rather than read it. Especially people…