Rolling the Dice With the Bernoulli Brothers
Rolling dice with the Bernoulli Brothers … “Decisions are the choices we make when the outcome is uncertain.” Risk is
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Flight Training
How do we teach people to fly? How can we teach them to fly better? Safer? More courteously? More often? With more confidence? Sometimes with less? And how can we survive in the challenging business of doing all of this?
Lucky Enough to Struggle
Life is a struggle. Day in and day out, we all face unique challenges. My struggle is probably no different from yours. It’s probably no different from anyone else’s. I’ve had my share of challenges. But I’m happy to struggle. It means I’m lucky enough to have something worth struggling for.
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Has Pornography Taught Us All to Live Track Up?
It occurs to me that pornography is the obverse of checklists. Everyone talks about checklists, but no one uses them. Everyone uses pornography but no one talks about it. But that’s a sidebar. I have been thinking about pornography lately. Really about how culture affects the way we live and even how we fly.
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Wisdom Where You Find It
You never thought it would happen to you. Now nothing makes sense. You have a plan. But it’s somewhere in the red-tabbed section of your POH. You have just been punched in the proverbial mouth. I don’t know if you have ever been punched in the mouth. It’s shocking. It hurts. It makes you angry. It makes you afraid. Anger and fear are not conducive to clear thinking.
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How to Be a Good Teacher (According to My Kids)
Not a day goes by that I don’t worry about how effective or ineffective I was while instructing that day, or about how I can be a better flight instructor. Here’s what flight instructors can learn from public school teachers, according to my kids.
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The Airplane Doesn’t Care
This is why I love flying. There’s never been another person or thing in my life that has demanded such truthful culpability from me. I have a lot of problems that are not my fault. And I have plenty problems that are. But when I show up to fly, I know that the airplane doesn’t care about any of them.
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Multi-engine Training: Verisimilitude, the lack thereof
We are more than a few seconds into multi-engine training, and you have learned the wrong muscle memory for the several most time-critical actions required in an emergency. It’s all pantomime and pretend.
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Instrument Ground School: Understanding RNAV approaches
Remember GPS Overlay approaches? The first instrument approaches to utilize GPS capability were approaches overlaid on existing VOR or NDB
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IFR DEPARTURE PROCEDURES: Complicated, critical, and often misunderstood
If you remember nothing else about IFR departures from uncontrolled airports, remember this: If you depart an airport into uncontrolled
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Instrument Ground School — Enroute Charts
We can’t teach you everything about IFR enroute charts in one night, but we can refer you to some online resources that you may find helpful.
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