Look out below High vs Low Wing…
It is a small strip not too wide and not too long (Northwest Regional Airport, Roanoke, TX) and yes you are supposed to look, announce and keep your freaking radio’s on…you know who you are!
There really is no excuse.
Picture from nbc5i.com
The reality is currency and staying ahead of the airplane usually prevents these kind of mistakes, legal to [...]
SID’s, STAR’s Airspace Redesign & You
How well do you know your SID’s & your STARS? Leave it to the FAA to change that! Do you use a couple of different airports on those common business or personal trips? Are you used to depart using the runway heading and then at x thousand feet turn left…well you get the picture. You [...]
Electrical Failure Anyone?
Just keep flying the plane…it doesn’t mean the engine quits!
The story unfolds on a dark winter night, in IMC, in a 1972 Piper Cherokee Six, with two souls on board. What I am about to share with you has not been shared with my wife so let’s keep it that way, she might not appreciate [...]
NTSB Shows Aviation Fatalities Lowest in 40 Years
The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary aviation accident statistics for 2007. The number of GA fatalities decreased by 30 percent; 703 fatalities were reported in 2006 compared to 491 last year, marking the lowest annual total in more than 40 years.
Based on fewer than 10 seats, no fatalities occurred on FAR Part 135 [...]
