Flight Training Articles

A twin engine aircraft with the loss of an engine can be a dangerous machine. We again lost a Piper Navajo with six people on board recently. It left eleven children without parents. Even though the NTSB report is not out it looks like it may be an engine failure or problem. As previously reported

A single engine “go around” on a twin engine aircraft is extremely dangerous and usually is not successful. One of the reasons for training in a simulator on single engine approaches is to get it right the first time. Our sims are able to simulate a large number of aircraft including twin engine aircraft. We

In aviation training, most of us know that a simulator can be used for 2.5 hours of training time toward a private pilot certificate.  In my 40 years of flight training, I have trained or certified over 6000 pilots (I was a pilot examiner for 30 years).  I always felt that a simulator was best

How is a flight instructor supposed to act while training me?   How often have I gotten this question from beginning students. Years ago I had a gentleman call me and ask me to help him finish his Private Pilot license.  My approach has always been, yes I can help you, lets meet at the

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

Can our Sim Spin and Can it Teach You How to Recover? Yes! BY KEVIN BROWN, ATP, CFII-MEI Spins and spin recovery is not required to be taught to private pilot students or even commercial students. Spin training does not even come into the curriculum until you reach the CFI level. Can you imagine teaching

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