Unlikely Squared
Unlikely is not never, nor even is unlikely squared. Ask the pilot whose vacuum and electrical systems failed all at once. Serial improbabilities confuse us even more. An instructorwatches a...
Monday, May 21, 2012
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Safety Pilot Compensation
Can a commercially rated pilot who is not a CFII be compensated while serving in the capacity of safety pilot for someone who is under the hood?
Travel Tip: Banned Items on Planes
While its a no-brainer that certain items, like knives and lighter fluid arent allowed in plane cabins, there are a few banned items that might surprise you.
2questions about the IFR written exam –for IFR flight plan
dear instructors online there are some problem for me with the flight planwhen I took the written exam for IFR transport canadaI met a question that is what will happen to the IFR flight plan if...
hydroplaning
What determines the speed at which hydroplaning occurs and how do you estimate or compute that speed?
Instrument Rating – Is the 50 hours of cross-country flight time PIC requirements most be VFR?
According to FAR 61.65 Instrument rating requirements paragraph (d) Aeronautical experience for the instrument-airplane rating. If I had an IFR cross country with my CFI, Is that flight could be...
The Spirit
This beautiful aircraft carried a young air mail pilot into the clouds of Olympus. That young air mail pilot has been gone for 38 years, but the Spirit is still with us. Is not that the way of life...
Hangar Time
It is May in Texas so I have switched from afternoons and evenings at the hangar for the cool mornings. I spent two Saturday mornings chasing the smell of mouse in my airplane... again. Not fun...
AAI asks states to prepare plans for setting up new airports
New Delhi: Aiming to operationalise 225 airports across the country by 2020, the Airports Authority of India has asked all state governments to prepare plans and create inventory of airports...
500 Lockheed workers agree to new union contracts similar to those offered Machinists
About 500 union-represented employees of Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth have ratified new labor contracts similar to the one rejected last month by the Machinists union.
