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RISKY PILOT BEHAVIOR

by Jack Boyd

What bad habit says you might be a risky pilot? The FAA Airplane Flying Handbook says most accidents, incidents, and violations occur during the taxi phase of flight. It instructs us to use the throttle (not the brakes if possible)...

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IT'S ALL ABOUT ANGLE OF ATTACK

by Jack Boyd

Top 9 deadly mistakes pilots make with the nose of their airplane. 1. They pitch it up prematurely (prior to Vr) or too aggressively (> 7 degrees of pitch) causing the stall warning to sound or a tail strike to...

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EXERCISING YOUR PIC AUTHORITY

by Jack Boyd

When a pilot’s decision to exert his PIC Authority changed a controllers mind and the entire airport operation. A Piper PA-28-161 was approaching it’s home airport KMLB in Florida. ATC instructed the pilot to expect runway 9R even though winds...

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Say your engine fails at 10000 ft above acres of Nebraska cornfields. It’s nighttime and two options come to mind. I can glide and use a soft-field landing technique on a cushion of cornstalks or deploy CAPS.

by Jack Boyd

Most of the 30000 or so Cirrus pilots have trained on non-Cirrus airplanes and were drilled to glide to a safe off-airport landing when an engine fails. This whole concept is thrown right out the window when the Cirrus Transition...

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Anatomy of a textbook CAPS deployment this week.

by Jack Boyd

One never knows how one will respond when given an impending engine failure. Some freeze and take no action while others panic and do the wrong things. Then there is the pilot who methodically follows his training to a successful...

RISKY PILOT BEHAVIOR

IT'S ALL ABOUT ANGLE OF ATTACK

EXERCISING YOUR PIC AUTHORITY

Say your engine fails at 10000 ft above acres of Nebraska cornfields. It’s nighttime and two options come to mind. I can glide and use a soft-field landing technique on a cushion of cornstalks or deploy CAPS.

Anatomy of a textbook CAPS deployment this week.

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