Know your aircraft systems

Know Your Aircraft Systems

In our “ongoing” subject of AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS I want to reflect on an accident case I have involving a Cessna 421B. The plane was attempting to land at a paved airstrip that belonged to the owner of the aircraft. The strip was located in a cornfield. On the final to the base leg the aircraft […]

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Aircraft Accidents

Accidents? Make a Long List and Teach Pilots how To Solve Them or Get Totally Scared Trying to Figure Them Out

For more than 50 years I have watched aviation accidents as a pilot, instructor, injury attorney and investigator and have repeatedly seen the same accidents over and over and over and over. Pilot error, maintenance problems, low time pilots into high time problems and just plain bad judgement. The problem is that if you look

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Accidents? Make a Long List and Teach Pilots How to Solve Them

For more than 50 years I have watched aviation accidents as a pilot, instructor, injury attorney and investigator and have repeatedly seen the same accidents over and over and over and over.  Pilot error, maintenance problems, low time pilots into high time problems and just plain bad judgment.  The problem is that if you look at these

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Improper Application of Aircraft Brakes

Don’t Put Your Idea of Auto Brakes to Work in Your Aircraft

Aircraft brakes are totally different than automobile and truck brakes.  Yes, they both work on the rotor/pad principal, much like the principal of bicycles but the application and use of those aircraft brakes take on a whole new difference in application on an aircraft on landing. First an automobile or truck will be on tires connected

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Initial Aircraft Training Approved by Insurance Companies

Initial, Recurrent, Differences – and Those Crazy Insurance Company Rules

Pilots will call us and tell us they want (and need) an initial training.  The initial training is prepared with a syllabus that is approved by the aviation insurance companies. When you take an initial training, the training is geared around a syllabus that has been reviewed, squeezed, copied, changed, and finally approved.  This is what the insurance companies

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Twin Cessna Aircraft Accident

I am the Greatest Pilot in the World – I Flew My Plane in Training for 25 Hours.

“I have 1,500 hours including 300 hours in a Piper Seneca. I just bought a 421C and took 25 hours in the plane instruction. I AM READY FOR ANYTHING!” There is no way that a person can cover all the problems in a complicated pressurized turbocharged twin Cessna or any other pressurized aircraft through 25

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