PILOTS AND Students will all know that an aerodrome with weather reporting publishes terminal conditions called a METAR every hour, giving information including wind speed, ground visibility, cloud ceiling, temperature and dewpoint and altimeter setting. But the weather can change significantly over the course of an hour and if it does a “SPECI” is a… Read more »
Happy New Year to everyone…
ANOTHER milestone for another great student – we wish congratulations to Carlos on his first solo quite recently. Carlos has been Ivan’s student all the way from when he started back in June, and his solo was on his twelfth lesson, and eighteenth flight, when he took to the skies alone, for the first time…. Read more »
It has been a few months since I wrote about crosswind takeoffs and landings and the correct control inputs, so I guess it’s time for a reminder …
The compass deviation card in your airplane is the little label stuck somewhere near your magnetic compass that tells you …
This is a short post about some thoughts from a flight yesterday. I was talking a new student – actually someone on their very first flight in a small airplane – through a descent to land…
Preparing a student for a flight test is one of the hardest parts of being an instructor. The early flying lessons are characterized by …
The third happy flight yesterday was for Ivan’s student Allyson …
Second good news of the day yesterday was …
Yesterday we celebrated two first solo flights and a flight test pass.