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The best of 1000+ aviation blog posts

I read a lot of aviation blogs, and feeds from aviation information sources. When everything goes fine, I do it daily. But for the last three weeks, I had less time because job happens, and when I came back to my feeds reader, I saw 1000+ unread items. Ouch. I bravely checked them today and selected the best of them for you.

Most of the unread posts were not from personal blogs but from news source like AOPA news, aviation in Google News, Planetalking.com, AvWeb current issue and Aero-News network. In this section, I used the “Mark All as Read button” a lot…

The hottest topic in the aviation blogosphere recently is the NWA flight 188 which lost radio contact and overflew its destination by 150 miles. There’s a lot of speculation around this incident. You can read more about it from Airlinerblog. Aviation-safety.net confirmed that the licences of both pilots were revoked. As often, the voice of reason and experience can be heard on flightlevel390.blogspot.com. Both Jetwhine and Cockpit Conversation listed their top 10 reasons why the crew missed the destination. Max Trescott also brings interesting arguments in his post on the NWA flight 188.

Another incident got my attention: a Cessna 400 cruising at 23.500 feet had a problem with oxygen and the pilot got incapacitated. The non-flying passenger got help from ATC and other pilots flying in the area. A great lesson of solidarity. Click here to read more about this incident and the dangers of hypoxia.

Still in the aviation accidents category, the Brazillian investigators released the final report about the A320 runway excursion at Sao-Paulo Congonhas airport. Click here to read more about their findings, and here to read an older post about this accident.

Lots of good posts also have to do with pilots training. Here are a lot of tips and training stories, in no particular order:

By the way, I noted that two blogging instructors I like have a new design at their blogs: www.askacfi.com and www.m0a.com. Congrats guys, nice job.

One impressive video appeared in several blogs. It shows a VFR aircraft entering IMC and continuing. At one point, the wingtip hits terrain, in the closest call I ever saw. I’m not sure this pilot learned anything from this mishap, but I share Rob’s opinion: be very afraid of this pilot.

MyFlightBlog.com also has a great, but not scary, post on flying in the Rocky Mountains. Todd made his first mountain flying experiences, and came back with nice pictures, a great video and big smile.

Sylvia, from fearoflanding.com, found incredible picture of a Piper Supercub attacked by a bear. But the most incredible part is that the pilot repared it with duct tape. Lots of duct tape. Click here to see in which state this aircraft flew back home.

Technical problems also occur at the other side of aviation, in the airlines. Dave from flightlevel390 related how one of his departures got delayed twice, because of two different problems. On the same day, he got an alarm about a thrust reverser, making an interesting link to the accident at Sao-Paulo Congonhas airport. Click here to read Dave’s post about how he handled technical problems with his maintenance, co-pilot and dispatcher.

Finally, with Chritmas in sight, the season of product reviews started. AviationMentor made a review of ForeFlight mobile for iPhone. I like his reviews because they are always very deep, detailled, and rather objective. Max Trescott has read Captain Sullenberger’s book, “Highest Duty”. Max also had a personal meeting with Sully and tells all about it in this post.

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4 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Wow, you got through a lot of blog posts! I’m glad I can use your site to get the short version. ;)

  2. Nice collection of posts. best of luck for more.

  3. It’s always a bit daunting when you see hundreds or thousands of unread blog posts in your reader. Well done for getting through them all!

  4. Vincent, Great rundown on the action that you’ve spotted in the aviation blogs you read. Reading aviation blogs is a daily ritual for me and great fun. Keep up the great work that you’re doing!

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