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
“I have ten billion piston hours in every piston plane made – why do I need the insurance company to tell me I need training – I know everything.” We get about one of these every twenty plus pilots that call in. There is a particular model of one manufacturer that pilot who buy one
Pitot Heat & Static Ports Pitot heat probes and static inlet ports are primary safety devices in instrument conditions where moisture is present. Sometimes we get into a “temperature” mode when turning on these items but what we really need to focus on is moisture. We must remember that heat applied to the pitot/static system needs
One of the major things we want you to get out of our course is when and why do you shut down an engine. We have consistently thrown this out at the very beginning of our recurrent and initial course and we never get consistent answers. One thing that we focus on in our courses,
The brakes on small airplanes such as a Cessna 172 or Piper Warrior are very simple and easily operated. You push on the pedal and a pressure to the calipers and pads work their magic squeezing the brakes together. It is that simple Now we move up to the more complex brakes on heavier aircraft.
I spent 18 years involved in tire and tire maintenance. I worked from dealing with simple tire situations up to large commercial vehicles and owned and operated a large retread facility and maintenance facilities. I worked with large commercial aircraft tires. I taught classes in aircraft tire maintenance as well as commercial tires. I was on a national
We are seeing some strange brake problems on the Twin Cessna line. This has recently shown up primarily on the 421 aircraft but we had a 340 aircraft showing the same problems. Having been in numerous businesses, I spent many years operating a large repair facility for vehicles all the way up to large trucks. I
I had a recurrent pilot go through a two-day training and we spent a lot of time on systems. My systems background is grounded on “it really happened to me” approach or I really had to handle that problem when I was flying for a living. My pilot (I never call them ‘students’) told me
I started teaching in 1975 and it was not only teaching private pilots working on single engine aircraft but pilots who worked for our 135 operation in large multi engine aircraft and turboprops. With the ups and downs of the aircraft industry I had pilots that I taught that went on to fly large commercial
We possibly lost another Twin Cessna pilot yesterday. One of my friends notified me this morning in an email with the audio of the pilot addressing the problem with ATC. It was not pretty. As my friend stated it sounded like the pilot was under stress. In reviewing the audio it sounded like he was.
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