Click Here To Help Improving This Blog !Pilots flying aircrafts with retractable landing gear must know three things: how to extend and retract it, the speed restriction for its operation… and the emergency extension procedure. As any equipment on board, the landing gear extension system can fail, and manufacturers have to plan an emergency system.
On the PA-32 Saratoga, the gear is […]
Does your flight bag contains a portable ELT ? Mine does not, because my type of flying does not requires one. How to decide if you need one ? What are the decision factors ? Where to buy one ? Let’s have a look.
One More ELT
I don’t know the regulations by heart, but I’m not […]
An old marine proverb says that rats leave the sinking ship. Strangely, this somehow applies to airliners as well. Keep cool, there are not rats on board, Ram Air Turbines, abbreviated RAT. But just as the rats of the proverbs, when the RAT gets out, situation on board is not so good.
Two forms of power […]
1 - Plan next flights
We all have dream destinations, or airports we plan to few to. You can prepare your route, fuel, weight and balance and performance calculations, study the approach and local procedures. When the good day will come, you will be ready !
2 - Review emergency procedures
What are the three first things to […]
