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There’s an old adage in aviation that reads, “There are two types of pilots: Those that have landed gear up, and those that will.” I’m not a big believer in these silly phrases — their purpose being to bring solace to the group of pilots that are most likely to make the mistake. That doesn’t [...]
Congratulations to Ali Wanchap on becoming Australia’s newest commercial helicopter pilot. Ali was once plugged into the big city fast lane working in PR and marketing for a major fashion label alongside Sydney’s social elitists. A vacation to Africa changed that when she took a scenic flight in a helicopter. The experience reinforced what she [...]
Born in Henderson Nevada, Christine found herself in Seattle Washington to earn a degree in computer science. But her inspiration from living in Boeing country, her visits to Oshkosh with her father, and her love of the 787 pushed her over the edge to become a pilot. She switched schools and degrees, and began flying [...]
From Kobe Japan, Jun, a graduate student of Environmental Engineering, recently received his English certificate and has set off on an adventure in Vero Beach Florida. He will be attending Flight Safety International for the next 15 months to earn his private, instrument, commercial, multi-engine and instructors ratings. His goal—to become an airline pilot. At [...]
Kellie is learning to fly at Bankstown based Red Baron Flight Training. Len Costa and I had a chat with Kellie regarding her initial research into her flying training and her limited experience thus far. At the time of recording Kellie has accrued 7 hours of basic flight training. Formerly known as Sydney Aerobatic School, [...]
Kellie is learning to fly in Sydney, Australia. She has taken the non-traditional approach by learning to fly with a school that integrates aerobatics into flying lessons from the first lesson. The plane: I am learning in an Alpha A160 which is a lovely little thing to throw around in the skies – and she [...]
One of the challenges you’ll be presented with in your early flight training endeavours is the selection of an appropriate aircraft. Apart from the countless other crucial decisions you’ll have to make such as timing, courses, instructor or flying school – all of which we’ll talk about at some point – there will come a [...]
This week I had lunch with a frustrated private pilot, who is trying to earn her instrument ticket. She had a difficult last flight, and frustration and doubt were apparent. Our conversation went something like this… Karlene: “What happened on your last flight?” Student: “I missed a couple things on my checklist, I’m having a [...]
The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority released a Crew Resource Management training package mid-2010 designed to provide training material to general aviation and Low Capacity RPT (LCRPT) operators. Titled “Safety Behaviours: Human Factors for Pilots”, the toolkit includes a DVD and a number of work booklets that can be used to supplement existing classroom-based group [...]
In episode 5 of Flight Podcast we talk with John King of King Schools. Kings Schools has a hand in training over 50% of the pilot population in the United States at some point in their career via a library of over 90 courses that can be completed using interactive DVD’s or online via their [...]
In our most recent episode of Flight Podcast we talk to Janine Shepherd. Janine Shepherd was a champion cross-country skier in training for the Winter Olympics when her life was suddenly and irrevocably altered during a training bicycle ride to the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. A speeding utility truck struck Janine and shattered her [...]
Between trying to record and produce for an Australian based aviation TV program, podcasting (which is taking for more time than any of our participants ever expected – due in part to the extroadinary popularity of it after only one episode) and a hectic international schedule, the posts to this blog have dropped off a [...]
Overview Almost 10 years ago to the day, Andrew Thorley was ferrying a Lightwing ‘Sport’ ultralight from Ballina (on the far north coast of NSW) to the Oaks Airfield (about an hours drive to the west of Sydney). There were a number of aggregated errors and oversights throughout the flight that found Andy over the [...]
The FAA freely releases all their questions and answers for most levels of examinations making them a useful tool for organisations engaged in flight training. The data, however, is often difficult to implement into other online applications because it’s generally disseminated as a text file or PDF. We’ve parsed the data into a MySQL database [...]
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