ARTICLE: Rethinking Stall Training The FAA and aviation safety organizations are pushing hard for improvements in pilot training and specifically stall recovery training. Unfortunately the last commercial air carrier accident, which was a stall related…
ARTICLE: FAA and Airlines Should Standardize In-Flight Medical Emergency Protocol and Reporting Have you ever been on a flight when an in-flight medical emergency happened? While most of the flights we take are uneventful, the…
ARTICLE: Charter Operators Face Grounding Over Training Issue One of the difficulties of regulating a complex, diverse, dynamic industry is that the regulators must communicate to the regulated what the rules are. Their bibles include…
ARTICLE: Airlines Face Acute Shortage of Pilots Federal regulations that go into effect next summer requiring newly hired pilots to have a minimum of 1,500 hours of prior flight experience, six times the current minimum,…
ARTICLE: Redbird: Simulator training works The topic of pilot proficiency and the need for quality pilot training has received substantial attention lately. The innovative leader of Redbird Skyport, Roger Sharp, and the self described “privately…
ARTICLE: Flight Safety Foundation Releases New Unreliable Airspeed Guidelines While not a new subject, the Air France 447 accident may have generated new focus on dealing with Unreliable Airspeed (URA) indication often attributed to the…
ARTICLE: AOPA unveils Center to Advance the Pilot Community Most of the aviation experts forecast that the pilot population will diminish over the next few years. It is good news that aviation’s ultimate grass roots…
ARTICLE: Training Group Speaks Up on Loss of Control Loss of Control is the most significant threat to aviation safety and it is primarily due to inadequate pilot training, according to the International Committee for…