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Wow! Interest in our Alaska trip has been going up steadily but we saw a serious jump this year. Our June trip is now completely booked! Since we were still getting phone calls about it, we've worked with the lodge to open a second trip in August. This trip will depart Seattle on Wednesday, the 17th...
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At each of the more popular CPPP weekend recurrent training events , we encourage COPA members to bring their right-seat partners for the Partner in Command (PIC) course. The course spends 3 hours on the Saturday morning exploring how a partner can handle the incapacitation of the pilot -- ways to use...
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We have Chase and Luke back here in the US after their trip over the Pacific to the other side of the world. They're both pretty beat but very happy to be home. I think it'll be a few days before their sleep schedules return to normal, but we're glad to have them returned safely. As it turns...
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By Luke Lysen This article is an email response to one of our clients who wrote us asking about the dangers of landing. We thought it would be good to share the content of that message with the rest of our COPA readership. -------------------------------------------------- Dear XXXXX, This discussion...
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In this video series, we're going to show how to properly execute a missed approach along with some of the common errors that we see in pilots who have not done this kind of thing in the last few months. These are the last of the videos we shot last August (and thus the last with the poor sound and...
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I have had a number of instructors ask me about the methods I use to renew my CFI. While it's true you can take in the 8710 forms of students if you passed 5 of them, we don't always have that many sign offs if you stay busy doing transition and currency work like I do. I had to renew last month...
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We have had a last minute cancellation on our Alaska trip and due to the deposit given we're able to offer a 40% discount on anybody wanting to fill the spot. We'll all meet up in Seattle on afternoon of the 11th and do a tour of the Boeing Museum of Flight with a special guided tour of the Cirrus...
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By Luke Lysen Last week I was ferrying a Cirrus SR20 from Las Vegas to Rabat and then Marrakech, Morocco (it was a great trip and true adventure... but more on that later). To cross the Atlantic Ocean I took the northern route from Goose Bay, Canada to Narsarsuaq, Greenland to Reykjavik, Iceland and...
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We're pretty fortunate in having our place on Boeing Field here in Seattle. We're doubly fortunate in that Boeing has 3 of the 4 experimental 787s located about 300 yards from where I sit each day and we have a wall of windows for watching. Today's a pretty crummy day here in Seattle but...
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We're having quite the afternoon here in the Pacific Northwest. Thanks to a sizeable Low pressure and associated cold front, we're having wind shear and SLD causing some interesting PIREPS. Here's one just 60 miles north of our base in Seattle: BVS UUA /OV YVR150035/TM 2225/FL150/TP DH8C...
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Sorry for the brief hiatus from posting these videos, things have been busy for us here at The Flight Academy. This is good news, but it doesn't leave me a lot of spare time to indulge my writing habit. Hopefully things will quiet down enough in the near future for me to write more. I have a couple...
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We had a great CPPP event this last weekend in Las Vegas and I wanted to take a second to say thank you to all who made this event happen. Thanks especially to all the attendees! Without all of you, none of the rest of us would have been there. It's great to see so many pilots interested in aviation...
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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 situations. In this video, we're going to demonstrate...
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In this video, we're going to demonstrate the proper procedures for shooting an ILS approach. We'll look at configurations, speeds, and a few common mistakes that we see people make. I'm using the ILS to 13R at KBFI. If you want to pull up a copy of the approach, you can find it on airnav...
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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 they ought to be for anything beyond the norm to...