Flight Training Articles

All good instructors teach systems. Some teach the systems as maintenance items while the plane is in the hanger or being preflighted. This may sound silly but sometimes the systems in the air are treated differently than they are on the ground. In a potential emergency situation or in an emergency situation, you may need

Just an update on our move to the Austin, Texas area.  We have purchased, yes purchased, property on the up and coming Burnet, Texas Airport (Craddock Field KMBQ) and are waiting our final approval for a through the fence permission which should be coming up shortly.  We are building a large hanger and sim training

In our twin-engine insurance initial and recurrent classes, we try to push as much system training as possible.  We do it in the “discussion” sessions and we do it in the sim during procedures training.   I am seventy years old and for the last twenty years my wife has had volume problems when she

Aircraft Simulator Training (AST) has purchased acreage on the Burnet, Texas Airport. Burnet (KBMQ) is located just west of Austin, Texas and has a 5,000 foot runway with RNAV approaches for both runways. We are building a large hanger that will house large jets and large turboprops and our new sim training facility. We will

Keep Up with your Location Engine loss at the flight levels? Ask for the widest and longest with the best emergency equipment. Do not pick the one where you car is located, your family lives, or they have restaurants, hotels and taxis. Hitting a 10,000 foot 250 wide military field is a lot easier at

We lost another Twin Cessna 414 (not A) today.  It occurred as it approached John Wayne Airport. For those of you who don’t know about the Twin Cessna line, the 414 was an early adaption of the 421 fuselage using the 340 wing system with the tip tanks.  Compared to the 414A where the fuel

This course consist of roughly six hours of training. We focus on the basics of engine loss beginning on the take off roll and then proceeding to failure after lift off. We cover the proper technique to verify a “go – no go” decision on the roll before Vr and proper shutdown. We then proceed

We are seeing more pilots who are taking their aircraft and installing the most advanced electronics on the market. It is the comparison of what we call in Texas the $500 saddle on the $100 horse. When these people come in for simulator training, they cannot work the equipment and, in our opinion, literally creating

James Carvel in an election year stated in an interview that when all was said and done the election was based on the “economy.” From this the phrase “it is about the economy stupid” evolved. In aviation we take it one step further. “It is about the maintenance.” I am leaving off the last word.

Why Do We Do What We Do? Losing an engine at FL210 and bringing in that aircraft to a landing on a 5,000 foot runway with clear skies and good visibility should not be a problem for a properly trained pilot. This happened to a 421C pilot with passengers on board (his family) in Alabama