In the following article, I want to continue to look into how a type certificated airplane can legally be altered from its original design. We have seen how easy it used to be to alter an airplane by using the [...]
I have recently had a privilege few parents get to experience, but before I tell you what it was, I'll give you a little history. It starts back in 1997, when I was still doing flight instruction on a daily basis. [...]
Safety is simply an environment free from danger or injury. Flight departments are tasked to create operational safety. Among the many elements to manage operational safety is human fatigue. Physical and mental fatigue is weariness resulting from exertion or prolonged [...]
I just got home last night from Atlanta, Georgia where I spent the weekend in a class with about thirty other Flight Instructors. Like the rest of them, I was there to renew my own Certified Flight Instructor certificate (CFI). [...]
Who flies private and why? What a loaded question. If you look to our political leaders and ask this question the answer is only wealthy fat cats that use their personal aircraft to take luxurious trips all over the world. [...]
Oh! No! What will we ever do? The sky is falling . . . ! At least some would have you think that it is. It seems as if the last few years have had us bouncing from one disaster [...]
As Aviation professionals or customers, how does the much talked about sequestration affect us? The Congressional Research Service defines sequestration this way: "In general, sequestration entails the permanent cancellation of budgetary resources by a uniform percentage. Moreover, this uniform percentage [...]
And by madness, I am not referring to the recent sequestration and its' affects on aviation. That will be a topic by itself in an upcoming blog post. By madness, I am referring to what is about to begin in [...]
For pilots, “change” is a way of life. Change in weather, change in our aircraft and systems, and change in regulations just to name a few. Pilots are also dependent on signs – signs that label locations, point the way, [...]
