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 [...]
Houston plane crashes with No injuries except for the Crab bites!
I had to link to this article and video feed, because it is great. Three buddies on the way back from a fishing trip to Houston, TX their Piper Cherokee goes down and no one is hurt! Now that is a great story, but the unlucky guy in the back seat with the cooler gets [...]
Airplanes & Lawsuits
Not words that I like in the same sentence…Lawsuits and Airplanes.
I found an article this week written about a very unfortunate plane crash (all crashes are) involving a Piper Malibu. It claimed the life of 4 people on April 11, 2008 in Alberta, Canada. The article went on to describe the fact that a father and son [...]
