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You lift of from the runway with both engines running. At 300 feet the right engine surges and quits. After four or five seconds you realize what happened. The aircraft starts to settle in from a climb to a profile descent from 1200 fpm climb headed downward. Then: Everything forward Gear and flaps up check […]

The more you can simulate an actual condition with equipment that acts exactly like the real thing, the easier it is to learn how to handle the problem.  This not only applies to learning the correct recovery of a dangerous aircraft problem but it also applies to not harming the actual aircraft or passengers by

This aircraft, a Cessna 310R, should have been able to stay airborne with the right engine failed and two people on board. Training on an engine loss is everything. You must be able to handle a lost engine as soon as you rotate. Our full motion sims teach you how to stabilize an engine loss

Engines quit.  Engines partially fail.  A failed or partially running engine does nothing but add trouble to a flight and to an unprepared pilot.  The multi engine check ride is designed as a very minimum to handle a twin on one engine.  It has been the standard for years long before sophisticated engine monitoring equipment,

Steve, Bert, Kent and I love to teach instruments. Of everything the sims can train, instrument training is number one. We can do everything, and I mean everything, in the sims that you can do in the plane and we can do it cheaper, faster and most important, safer. Plus, it counts as 20 hours

How bad is getting your beginning instrument training in the actual aircraft? It is terrible. The instrument rating is not about flying the aircraft. Yes, I know I will get arguments on that, but instrument training is about PROCEDURE. Let me repeat that. It is about PROCEDURE. We have reviewed many pilots who started their

This week an Air Canada flight from Toronto to San Francisco lined up with a taxiway at night and was very close to landing on that taxiway.  The problem is that there were four other aircraft on the taxiway waiting to depart.  The runway was 28R and the taxiway (Charlie) was on the outside of

Recently, there was recently another Twin Cessna loss with a reported engine failure on a 310.  This happened after lift off from John Wayne Airport, and the right engine was reported as failing.  In a Twin Cessna, this is the engine you want to fail if one has to fail.  Since the failure occurred after

At Aircraft Simulator Training, we are having way too much fun. We have been exploring more options with our new Six Degree of Freedom Simulator, and now have a training module called “The Miracle on the Hudson” Flight Experience. We have actually re-created the US Airways (Cactus) Flight 1549, “Miracle on the Hudson” loss of both engines