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Why Fly?
Why fly? There are many motivating factors compelling many to fly. Everyone has personal reasons as to why they fly. Some have verbalized those reasons, some not. Some reasons for flying include a deep and resounding desire to soar like … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying, Personal
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Tagged airplanes, Cessnas, flying, inexperienced pilots, instrument flying, judgment, learning to fly, pilots, professional pilots, student pilots, taildraggers, training aircraft
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A Guy Named Joe
Here in Central Florida, there once was a guy named Joe. Joe was a fairly well known aviator, antiquer, and homebuilder. His day job was flying Lears and DH-125s for a bank; his passion was flying antiques and homebuilts. Timing … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flight Instructing, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged 1929 Command-Aire biplane, A Guy Named Joe, airplanes, antiquer, aviator, barnstormers, Central Florida, Cessnas, Drane Field, flying, homebuilder, inexperienced pilots, judgment, learning to fly, open cockpit biplanes, Piper Cubs, St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport, student pilots, taildraggers, training aircraft, Waco cabin biplanes
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The “Potato” Plane
If you look at the Piper Apache head on, it looks a bit like a potato. A potato with wings and smaller spuds on the wings that house Lycoming engines of different sizes. Originally, the Piper PA-23 came out with … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying
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Tagged A potato with wings, a real airplane, airplanes, flying, high-lift wing, inexperienced pilots, judgment, learning to fly, Lycoming engines, multi-engine trainer, new ME trainees, PA-23-150, PA-23-160, PA-23-235, PA-23-250, pilots, Piper Apache, Piper Aztec, professional pilots, student pilots, The “Potato” Plane, training aircraft
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What Makes a Good CFI?
Some believe you must be a great pilot to be a good flight instructor. Others think you have to have great teaching skills. Then there are those who believe it all boils down to patience. For those who believe it … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged airplanes, discipline, flying, good flight instructor, great pilot, inexperienced pilots, instrument flying, judgment, learning to fly, patience, pilots, professional pilots, professional reputation, stress, student pilots, teacher, the Law of Effect, training aircraft, What Makes a Good CFI?
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The ICON A5
Yesterday, I had an exchange of comments with one of the readers which prompted me to send her a link to the ICON A5 aircraft. If you have never seen this new airplane, and you are a pilot who likes … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying
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Tagged airplanes, amphibious airplanes, Cessnas, flying, hangar fees, he ICON Complete Airplane Parachute recovery system, learning to fly, Lycoming, pilots who like the water, Rotax 912 ULS, safe low-speed handling capability, seaplanes, the folding wing, The ICON A5, training aircraft, very impressive light sport aircraft
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Building Time
Today’s young pilots face the same age-old number one question as pilots in the last century: namely – how do I get a job? Of course, as it was in the Twentieth Century, so it is in the 21st. New … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying, Life in General
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Tagged airline industry, airplanes, Alaska, banner towing, Building Time, bush flying, Catch-22, charter flying, checkrides, chicken and egg conundrum, commercial pilot positions, flight instructing, flying, flying jobs, flying skydivers, great time building, how do I get a job?, inexperienced pilots, insurance criteria, judgment, learning to fly, mountains, Part 135, professional pilots, sightseeing flights, taildraggers, the menial jobs of aviation, training aircraft, working for a living, young pilots
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The T-cart
Yesterday’s blog was about The Perfect Flying Machine. Today, it is about a very similar flying machine. The reason it is very similar is because the same aeronautical engineer, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, designed today’s airplane, the Taylorcraft. After the big … Continue reading →
The Perfect Flying Machine
Every time an airplane makes the news, someone makes a comment about the “Piper Cub.” Now the airplane might have been a Cessna 210, a Beechcraft A-36, maybe even a King Air, but for many in the public, if the … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying
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Tagged airplanes, Beechcraft A-36, Boeing 700 series airliner, Bradford PA, Cessna 210, Clarence Gilbert Taylor, Continental A-40 engine, Continental A-65 engine, flying, J-2 Cub, King Air, learning to fly, Piper J-3 Cub, student pilots, taildraggers, Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation, Taylor E-2 Cub, The Perfect Flying Machine, the “Piper Cub”, training aircraft, William T. Piper
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Negative Transfer
You can find one of the greatest examples of a negative transfer of learning in the cockpit of many of today’s training aircraft. For whatever reason, the industry decided a long time ago steering yokes were more desirable rather than … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying
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Tagged avoiding hazards, control sticks, crosswind landings, crosswinds, inexperienced pilot, learning, Negative Transfer, negative transfer of learning, proper training, steering yokes, taxiing an aircraft, training aircraft, wind correction angle, “steering wheel”
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The Barnstormers
After the First World War, aviators returned to America in search of their fortunes in aviation. For a mere $400 or $500 each, they were able to acquire training aircraft from the government, the most common of which was the … Continue reading →
