Pilot Career: What Will You Carry in Your Backpack?
When packing a backpack for a camp-out, Boy Scouts keep in mind the motto “Be Prepared.” It’s a good motto for a pilot career too. Vern Weiss Do you want to know who makes good pilots? Mechanics. They know aircraft systems inside and out and, as pilots, often pull a rabbit out of a hat in […]
Flight Training Aircraft: The Most Common Types and Models
Shawn Arena So, in your journey to earn your pilot certificates, you have most likely (a) enrolled in a flight school, (b) been presented the ground and flight curriculum you will follow and, (c) been assigned a flight instructor. The next step is the actual flying. At this step, you will most likely be learning […]
Aviation and Your Flight Training: Choose the Best for a Lasting Impression
Wilson Gilliam, Jr. A paper on economic aerospace forecasting could be as thick as your computer screen is tall. Even the FAA Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Years 2015 – 2035 is nearly 140 pages long. I’m glad this post is long on brevity and to the point about how you can fit into the increasingly influential […]
The Call: The Moment When Your Childhood Dreams Come True
Getting “The Call” After Your Airline Pilot Training Making it through the airline pilot selection process is an accomplishment but successfully completing your airline pilot training is nothing short of awesome. Vern Weiss You’ve been submitting applications to airlines for over a year and reading doom-and-gloom on pilot blogs, which is beginning to work on your […]
Flight Attendant Training: It’s More than the Seat Belt Demo
If the public had a clue as to how necessary flight attendants are and how rigorous the airline flight attendant training programs are, they’d can their stupid comments. Vern Weiss They are there neither to serve you a beverage nor bring you a pillow. That’s what the airline’s marketing departments tell them they should do […]
Dispelling Three Myths About Flying an Airplane
Toni Mensching The military definitely isn’t the only group who will train you to fly airplanes. It may be one of the few groups who will pay you while you learn to fly, but it certainly isn’t the only place you can learn to fly an airplane. The fact that the military will pay you […]
Ice Bike Mountain Top Riding on a Frozen Lake
Filmed in the winter of 2015 near Mt. Mason, British Columbia, Canada, Bill Hitchon riding his monster ice bike, Suzuki Boulevard on top of a frozen mountain lake at 5000 feet above sea level. It is crazy to think that Bill Hitchon is probably the only man or earth to race on this lake. Bill is a […]
Super Cub Landing on Windy Mt Top
The Super Cub is a two seat single engine fixed wing aircraft and it has one main set of wing surfaces. As far back as the early 1950’s and Piper Aircraft introduced the Super Cub in a big way. It originated from the design of the Piper PA-11 and can actually find design similarities to […]
6 Student Pilot Mistakes That Can Ruin a Career
There are certain things that student helicopter pilots need to know before they invest in an expensive flight training program. In other words, you might want to consider some things that can sink your career before you ever start. You may be surprised to know the following examples of student pilot mistakes have kept many student pilots […]
Solar Impulse 2 – Exploration to Change the World of Aviation
Latest Update on the Solar Impulse 2 Journey (see video below) On June 29th, 2015, 18:03 GMT Sunday, the Solar Impulse 2 took off from Nagoya, Japan. It’s traveling to the Islands of Hawaii of the United States. This feat, if accomplished, will be the first ever flight fueled by solar power only. This achievement has never before […]
Drone Racing League Receives 1 Million In Funding
Safe, low flying Drone (UAV) racing, with the Drone Racing League, is one of the fastest growing recreational sports worldwide, and professional pilots are right in the mix of things. Drone racing is performed on a specially designed course, which is often indoors. Professional and recreational pilots, RC aircraft enthusiasts, and normal everyday Joe’s are jumping […]
