Rick McGuire

Aircraft Simulator Training was featured in a recent edition of The Twin Cessna Flyer magazine. View the full article.

Pay Me Now or You Will Pay Later – Promise There is a reason why pilots of large complicated aircraft are trained in simulators.  First, it is cheaper to operate a simulator.  Second, you can accomplish more in the simulator than you can in the aircraft.  Finally; what you really need to accomplish, such as

We lost another Twin Cessna this weekend during the Christmas holidays.  It went down on takeoff in Florida.  The speculations have already started as to what happened and if you read the comments by people who fly, actual pilots and the general public you get the feeling general aviation is extremely dangerous.  It is not.

You lift of from the runway with both engines running. At 300 feet the right engine surges and quits. After four or five seconds you realize what happened. The aircraft starts to settle in from a climb to a profile descent from 1200 fpm climb headed downward. Then: Everything forward Gear and flaps up check

The more you can simulate an actual condition with equipment that acts exactly like the real thing, the easier it is to learn how to handle the problem.  This not only applies to learning the correct recovery of a dangerous aircraft problem but it also applies to not harming the actual aircraft or passengers by

This aircraft, a Cessna 310R, should have been able to stay airborne with the right engine failed and two people on board. Training on an engine loss is everything. You must be able to handle a lost engine as soon as you rotate. Our full motion sims teach you how to stabilize an engine loss

Engines quit.  Engines partially fail.  A failed or partially running engine does nothing but add trouble to a flight and to an unprepared pilot.  The multi engine check ride is designed as a very minimum to handle a twin on one engine.  It has been the standard for years long before sophisticated engine monitoring equipment,

Steve, Bert, Kent and I love to teach instruments. Of everything the sims can train, instrument training is number one. We can do everything, and I mean everything, in the sims that you can do in the plane and we can do it cheaper, faster and most important, safer. Plus, it counts as 20 hours

How bad is getting your beginning instrument training in the actual aircraft? It is terrible. The instrument rating is not about flying the aircraft. Yes, I know I will get arguments on that, but instrument training is about PROCEDURE. Let me repeat that. It is about PROCEDURE. We have reviewed many pilots who started their

This week an Air Canada flight from Toronto to San Francisco lined up with a taxiway at night and was very close to landing on that taxiway.  The problem is that there were four other aircraft on the taxiway waiting to depart.  The runway was 28R and the taxiway (Charlie) was on the outside of