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Getting home from the Las Vegas CPPP proved challenging for many participants, including me. The weather turned cold and cloudy on Sunday morning and prevented any flight segments. (Thanks to Kelly Rudy for organizing two tours of the Las Vegas TRACON...

Opérer un avion en Novembre c'est se conformer intégralement à la réglementation américaine concernant la maintenance de l'aéronef et ne pas tenir compte du tout de la réglementation européenne...

A crash in East Palo Alto two days ago after an early morning take-off apparently in fog, killing three employees of the Tesla electric-car company; the notorious suicide/murder/terror crash in Austin yesterday; a landing in the wee hours this morning...

One of the best things about simulator training is that we can make all kinds of things happen that we can't even get close to simulating in the real airplane. If you've been following our video series then you've already seen a few of those...

This post can also be found on our Avidyne Live site. Langewiesche’s “Silver Chain” I have been working my way through Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche and it has been a very interesting...

In this video, I will demonstrate a VFR departure briefing along with a departure which utilizes some of that briefing. It is important that pilots be aware of what they're about to launch into... but many people I train with aren't as ready as...

Here's the third in our video series about what you could do if your engine fails shortly after takeoff. In the last videos (found here and here) we first looked at what would happen if the pilot attempted to return to the airport, with disastrous...