Right after 9/11 I was in New York to see the extreme damage from the worst attack on our country. While I was there an Airbus that was flown by American Airlines lost control while entering wake turbulence after take-off. The second officer was flying. Instead of using the ailerons to establish control from the […]
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One of the instructors who flies our two Twin Cessna aircraft was flying to his family for Christmas. He had a stopover in Mississippi for fuel. While he was there, he noticed the plane in the picture above. The pilot was still cranking his engines after 15 minutes. They would not start. One of the
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The Latest in “Stupid Ways” to Operate a Twin Cessna The moon had to be aligned in some weird ways as we had two weeks of pilots who came in and were taking off with their 340 or 421C with partial power. Each of these pilots told us their “SUPER CFI – ONE OF THE TOP
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Due to Covid and schedule conflicts it took me a while to get down to Burnett, Texas, and do my recurrent training at Aircraft Simulator Training. I’ve been overdue for sim training and I was extremely curious to see if AST would live up to the incredible accolades it has received on our Forum. Here
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There have been several aircraft that have had major accidents due to equipment problems. These problems have been electrical components that have gone “outside their regular job functions” and over controlled the aircraft causing a serious accident or accidents. One of the recent problems has involved out of control trim problems. When I was at
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We actually own a 340 and a 421C. We have flown these aircraft and taught in these aircraft for years. The picture shows Chuck, one of our premier instructors, flying to the east side of Houston to our other facility. The beginning of the day was all IFR with a 200 ft ceiling and ½
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I have had to use the emergency gear extension on airplanes several times. Is this a bad maintenance problem from an annual? Absolutely not. Gear problems happen. It happens because the underlying system has problems. In fact, in aircraft problems usually come in twos or threes. In certain airplanes “swinging” the gear is a major
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Just Start Doing Your Single Engine and Emergency Training in Your Twin Cessna The engine manufacturers are waiting with bated breath for you to start shutting down your engines and feather those props. Let’s fly along with that engine shut down. Let’s get the real feel of flying on one engine, THEN let’s start them
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Because We Have Been There, Done That, and the Pilots We Teach Reflect It. Here is a recent text that one of our instructors got from a professional pilot from Canada that took recurrent training: Hey Chuck! Matthew here. I did AST training with you just over a month ago. I had my first and
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Either in the plane (not good) or a full-motion simulator One of the items on the “checklist” to make you a better pilot is handling icing. Icing, next to getting caught in a thunderstorm, is probably one of the most serious things you will do. Icing is hard to forecast. What the weather guys do
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