September 11, 2021 PLANE ENGLISH ON PART 91 PERFORMANCE UPDATED UPDATE 12th October 2021: AC 91-02v1.0, Guidelines for aeroplanes with MTOW not exceeding 5 700 kg – suitable places to take off and land,… Continue reading
September 11, 2021 Learn to Turn On September 8th at 3:30 pm EDT (that is 5:30 am Australian EST) — Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) broadcast a live discussion with Rich… Continue reading
October 25, 2019 MORE PLANE ENGLISH ON PART 91 Being an engineer I like to take an interest in numbers so let’s discuss one of the “matters to be checked before take-off”: take-off… Continue reading
October 25, 2019 Safety Update – (Incipient) Spin Recovery Training The Melbourne Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society Australian Division held their first Flight Training Forum on 24 October 2019 with the theme of… Continue reading
June 7, 2018 Stalls in Turns Back in the days before Part 61 there was a Day VFR Syllabus for pilot training which included “Recovers from stall during a turn”… Continue reading
January 13, 2018 Flying on a Hot Day At the Vic RAPAC 2017-1 meeting there was this information presented by the CASA representative: Let’s keep this discussion simple for now – and… Continue reading
October 26, 2016 My Spin Crusade It has been about 50 years since I did my first spin in an aeroplane, about 35 years since I started teaching spins to… Continue reading
August 31, 2016 Loops, Voices and the Fear of Death This short story by Richard Bach written back when I started flying aerobatics has stuck with me for many years – it is available… Continue reading
April 26, 2016 Stay in Control: Incipient Spins Note: this article was updated on 19/6/19 mainly to reflect the changes with the FAA’s Airplane Flying Handbook revision of 2016. I avoid discussing… Continue reading
April 21, 2016 Stay in Control: Fully Developed Spins From the 1944 book, Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche: “Almost all fatal flying accidents are caused by… Continue reading
