www.jetwhine.com - Has the exemplary aviation safety record become its own worst enemy because it instills unrealistic expectations of risk in the minds of those fly? As a consequence, reactions to these infrequent but unpreventable circumstances instantly climbs to a...
blog.aopa.org - I've almost done it. Spent about 2 or 3 minutes visually lining up on a military airport instead of a small rural airport about 3 miles away (hidden by low clouds). I just kept thinking damn, that airport looks BIG !!! This...
Intentional or unintentional spiral dives have caused a number of fatalities throughout the world. Therefore, I have decided to pursue getting spiral dive recovery into the Practical Test Standards (PTS) so all new pilots and CFI's will start...
Found an article posing a question I often wonder about. Not a great article, and offercs inconclusive advice, but I think it might spawn interesting conversation. I had an engine out due to fuel pump in my first trike. Opted for dirt road, and...
I found this post over on the ultralight yahoo group. I though it was pretty good and wanted to post it here for others to ponder.
werjamn
Dec 2 8:22 PM
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Did you know it was dead stick...
Pistons seized (even 503s die some-time!) the ground was frozen ( 20deg ), and bumpy! my 12 meter wing didn't like slowing down. this happened on 1st january 2011, hell of a way to start the new year! it gets worse! in april my wallet and id was...