Exercise Your License to Learn
This is one question I hear echoed throughout flight schools, internet message boards, and anywhere else student pilots can be found, “how do I pass the private pilot written exam?” Here’s the deal: the written exam is a game. Plain and simple. Much like the ACT or SAT, it is a measurement of one thing: [...]
causes airplanes to overshoot runways, clip wingtips, and miss airports entirely? Two words: Pilot Error. The media is unfortunately very unforgiving when it comes to televising aircraft mishaps and the effects of the big airliners trickle down into the general aviation community. How can we learn from these mistakes.
Anybody who’s ever taxied an airplane in low visibility knows that situational awareness is critical. In most cases, radio communication is the only way air traffic control can positively identify an aircraft’s location. If the pilots don’t know where they are, then neither does air traffic control. This was a hard lesson learned by the [...]
Any pilot with a few years experience can tell you that good landings come and go. Your landings may be picture-perfect every time, but then you suddenly find yourself in a dry spell. You can’t nail the landing to save your life. It doesn’t matter if you fly every day for a living or if [...]
