Aeronautical Decision Making, Crew Resource Management, Single Pilot Resource Management While these might be big fancy titles, the actual concepts they represent are actually much more simple, and probably something you already do to some extent subconsciously. The whole idea behind these concepts is to reduce GA accidents. The diagram above shows where GA accidents… Continue reading ADM / CRM / SRM Review
Topic Category: IFR
Aeromedical (Mind) Factors Under IFR
You can’t see Judgement (especially through the clouds) Judgment isn’t something we can see and measure like stick and rudder skills. It’s a little tougher to train as well. In fact, the same judgement and attitude that got you to a point in your life where you could both financially afford to fly planes and… Continue reading Aeromedical (Mind) Factors Under IFR
How to Prepare / Navigate Your Training
The Requirements To get your instrument rating (under part 61, which is what most pilots do), you will need a total of: 50 Hours of Cross Country Time as PIC (meaning your X/C time from being a Private Pilot in Training counts when you flew solo, but not the X/C time when your instructor was… Continue reading How to Prepare / Navigate Your Training
Choosing A School / CFII
Things to Consider when choosing a CFII Your instructor should have signed off at least 5 instrument students in the past year. If they haven’t, they most likely are not up to speed on teaching instrument flying (they may be very good at doing it themselves if they work for an airline or as a professional… Continue reading Choosing A School / CFII
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Hobby Aftermath
Accident Chain: Unfamiliar Airport Long Flight (3hrs stuck in a small airplane) Get-there-itis (visiting sick father-in-law, and delivering her two passengers to the destination) Disregarded requirement for a Flight Review No spin recovery training Flustered by ATC Accepting clearances from ATC that put the airplane into undesired states Failed to be assertive with ATC to… Continue reading Hobby Aftermath
Hobby Flight
The Flight After being airborne for nearly 3 hours, N4252G approached the Class B airspace of Houston Hobby Airport. Given the large speed difference between a SR20 and a Boeing 737 on approach, the approach controller had told 52G to maintain maximum forward speed if possible just before being handed off to tower. Once on… Continue reading Hobby Flight
Hobby Accident Background
Flight Background On June 9th, 2016, Cirrus N4252G departed KOUN for KHOU about 350nm away. On board was the pilot (Dana), her husband (Tony), and brother-in-law (Jerry). The flight was to take them to the Houston area to see Tony and Jerry’s father, who was receiving cancer treatment at the Anderson Cancer Center. Obviously, they… Continue reading Hobby Accident Background