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A reader forwarded this suggestion to me, and it's not a bad idea, so I thought I'd pass it along. A paramedic observed that, at accident scenes, there were always mobile phones with patients, but

Note to self: Next time, raise both doors BEFORE you proceed to raise the center post.

After sim, I have to race off to KMIC for an introductory flight. I'm not sure why they called me for this flight, since I'm not exactly established as an instructor up there yet. But it might be a

One of my former Captains on the MU-2 reminded me of this story, I'm surprised I could have forgotten it.

It's really disturbing, so consider yourself warned.

It was a gorgeous

The II continues with NDB navigation and approaches. It starts out with a board lesson of sorts, where I go over the basics -- homing, tracking, intercepting bearings, and the generic procedure for a

I went out last night with a friend of mine, a guy I used to work with a few years ago, and I got pretty toasted, so today I'm guzzling fruit juices and popping advil like M&Ms.

Why i

It’s a plane pretending to be a boat. If you havn’t seen the video below, take the 10 minutes and do so. You don’t believe your eyes.
NTSB report on the situation

Note to self: Next time, raise both doors BEFORE you proceed to raise the center post.

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I came across a few model engines on Craigslist Friday that I picked up today for a good deal. They’re oldies, but goodies, courtesy of a fellow who had them given to him as a gift long ago, but

One of my former Captains on the MU-2 reminded me of this story, I'm surprised I could have forgotten it.

It's really disturbing, so consider yourself warned.

It was a gorgeous

One of my former Captains on the MU-2 reminded me of this story, I'm surprised I could have forgotten it.

It's really disturbing, so consider yourself warned.

It was a gorgeous

I went out last night with a friend of mine, a guy I used to work with a few years ago, and I got pretty toasted, so today I'm guzzling fruit juices and popping advil like M&Ms.

Why i

I went out last night with a friend of mine, a guy I used to work with a few years ago, and I got pretty toasted, so today I'm guzzling fruit juices and popping advil like M&Ms.

Why i

I took 610SP out of SQL today, and it started out fine -- I decided I'd go out to Tracy, land, and come home. So I got my left crosswind departure, went out over Sunol, and then I realized: I had no

Here I was trying to get the two cl

During the past week I have looked into the services of Podshow in effort to use them as the host for my podcast. While I have been planning on using

My first class graduated from T-37s on Thursday. It was bittersweet. There were good students, not so good students, colorful personalities, different backgrounds, different dreams. When a class co

Here's an interesting article from the UK's 'Lancashire Evening Post' looking at the attitude of Lancastrians t

This week a major new re

Neither of us here at Hummingbird consider ourselves particularly naive (we're well-travelled and have a long-established interest in wildlife), but even we were shocked when we discovered the

Great news! The Arrow is back on the flight line, although the engine still needs to be fully broken in. As a result, the FBO wants to avoid rapid temperature changes to the engine, so we're restricte

The title line says it all. In the mail today was the endorsement from Dauntless Software that will enable me to take the knowledge or written exam. First objective is to pass. Second objective is

I went out and did some pattern work today. I flew 739TW out of Palo Alto -- a really nice plane! The day was pretty much completely perfect, so I decided to try and land as smoothly as possible. E

My first class graduated from T-37s on Thursday. It was bittersweet. There were good students, not so good students, colorful personalities, different backgrounds, different dreams. When a class co