Rick McGuire

Beginning May 12, 2016, the FAA will allow our advanced sims to train beginning instrument students for twenty (20) hours. What does this mean for the beginning student? I have trained hundreds of instrument students in aircraft. For the first twenty (20) hours you are wasting approximately six (6) to eight (8) hours just maneuvering […]

By Art Hayssen and Jim McCord, Instructors at Aircraft Simulator Training If you have ever done any instrument training in an aircraft you know that the aircraft is a terrible teaching tool. What you don’t know, if you have never worked in a high end motion sim, is that you can do so much more for

We recently had a serious aviation accident in our own backyard (Santa Rosa, California KSTS.)  It involved two well liked area citizens flying a Comanche 250 on an instrument approach (ILS to runway 32) to the Santa Rosa Airport.  The visibility was extremely low, less than 2.5 miles, and the ceilings were around 400 feet.

I have been very fortunate to fly many different types of aircraft, from taildraggers with small engines to jets.  I have spent countless hours in commercial aircraft operations, in all types of weather, flying passengers and products at all hours of the day.  If you fly one type of aircraft long enough you know their

As you are very much aware, we have a license to fly.  Attached to that license we can have ratings.  The instrument “ticket,” as it is sometimes called, is a rating that allows you to operate under instrument conditions with your license.  What do we need to do to stay current? According to Federal Aviation

The FAA has initiated the move to return 20 hours of instrument training to Advanced Aviation Training Devices. The proposed new rule on adding the hours back should be in place in the next six to twelve months. The FAA and Congress are working on rules related to drones and that has slowed the rule