Tips from CSIP's: Staying Proficient
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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...
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Luke and Chase are taking two SR22s over the Big Pond to Australia and will be departing tomorrow. First stop: Hawaii! If you'd like to follow them on their journey, you can join the Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135566239818933#...
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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. ---------------------------...
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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...
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If you have been flying your Cirrus for any length of time, you've thought about it. When would you go for the red handle? Likely you've got some ideas. Some concepts. A philosophy that describes general circumstances under which you'd go...
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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...
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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...
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We're happy to announce that the Cirrus Vision SF50 jet will be making an appearance at our office in Seattle on May 14! We'll be having an open house featuring the Vision and the latest models in the SR series at our office based on Boeing Field...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...