Ok guys. The other day I wrote about Sean D. Tucker, the world famous aerobatic pilot, who also is an honorary Thunderbird and Blue Angel, and performs for the the Team Oracle, and was supposed to be on Oprah’s TV show. If you did not get a chance to get the courage, or time, to [...] Read more »
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FAA Medical Certificate online application
Whoa! I just bumped into this information accidentally while doing some research on Airparks. Somehow I ended up on Rosamond Airpark’s website, and guess what I found? As just about everything else is migrating online (internet), FAA has already moved the FAA pilot medical certificate application online as well. I had no idea about this. [...] Read more »
An Aircraft in each household – a dream or reality?
by av8er October 20, 2009 » Add the second comment.
Aviation has completed over a century of dynamic growth and advancement, resulting in the present air transportation system dominated by the commercial airline industry’s hub and spoke system. The initial 50 years of aviation were a chaotic, rapid evolutionary process involving disruptive technologies that required frequent modifications. The second half century produced a stable evolutionary [...] Read more »
Careers in Aviation – 9 Pilot Certificates Explained
by av8er October 19, 2009 » Add the second comment.
Guest Post by: Erik Johannessen There are millions of Persons around the world, who have learned to fly. Some of them do it just for fun, others use it as a way to travel to work and there are others who become career pilots to earn a living. If you are starting to do research [...] Read more »
The 5-Ts of IFR Flying
Like I mentioned in one of my earlier articles, we pilots like to use a lot of acronyms and memory aids to help us remember things in an easy and organized manner. Not that we are low on RAM or something, it’s just a way of filing and organizing information in our brains so it [...] Read more »
I am just a 6-seater Pilot
by av8er October 16, 2009 » Add the first comment.
I logged into my facebook account today and an instant message popped up. It was Rohan. A former student at a former flight school American School of Aviation, where I held the position of a Chief Flight Instructor for over 6 years. I had not talked to him in a while, and had completely [...] Read more »
Quote of the Day
by av8er October 12, 2009 » Add the first comment.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Whiskey Compass
by av8er October 11, 2009 » Add more comments.
In one of my previous posts I talked about an ol’ pilot rule-of-thumb (we also call them memory aid) called “Whiskey Compass”. This was in relation to Alcohol and Aviation. Most of the newer generation pilots know this rule as “Bottle to Throttle”. Well the rule is 8 hours from bottle to throttle, and you [...] Read more »
Quote of the day
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -Albert Einstein