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CEO of the Cockpit #63: Flyboyz
My nephew Kermit and I rarely miss a movie that has flying in it. We’ve watched classics like “Islands in the Sun” and endured dogs like “Pearl Harbor” but we’ve always enjoyed each other’s company and popcorn at the movies.During one of my days off last week, I took Kermit to see the highly hyped […]
Say Again? #68: ATC Programming
I was reading a description of a pilot’s actions as he was programming his GPS the other day. It didn’t take me long to get lost. Press this button, go to that page, turn this dial. Pretty soon I found myself wondering, “Who’s flying the airplane during all this?” It sure seemed complicated.I’m sure it […]
Probable Cause #17: Commander’s Last Call
This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, June 2005. Remember the old saying, “Fly the airplane first?” Your flight instructors probably mentioned it to you when you were dividing your attention among several things that were going on in the cockpit at the same time. If you allow your attention be drawn away from monitoring […]
The Pilot’s Lounge #105: Flying In To AirVenture — It’s Time To Slap Around The Bozos
During this year’s repositioning of the Pilot’s Lounge from the virtual airport to the EAA convention at Oshkosh, many of our regulars and visitors again partook of a rather cynical variation of the traditional form of recreation-at-the-airport-when-we’re-not-flying: watching arriving aircraft to see stupid pilot tricks.Sadly, we saw a bunch.While the majority of arriving pilots demonstrated […]
