Click Here To Help Improving This Blog !In Switzerland, the route to a private pilot license goes through evening classes to prepare the theoretical examination. These are not always fun and animated - I know, I’ve been the “teacher” for a couple of years in Geneva Aero-Club…
Hopefully, most student groups include one “different” student. It can be someone with a strong sense […]
Any piece of equipment on board can fail at any time, and all pilots train, to be ready to cope with any failure. This picture has been taken by a passenger while my instructor decided it was time to practice landings with no air-speed indicator.
Years after this training session, I think it’s easy to cope […]
Flight simulators are great tools… as far as you use them the smart way. Not all flying skills can be practiced with every simulator. I’m not talking here about full-motion simulators, but of the kind of software that can run on any PC. More precisely, I don’t even consider using a joystick or yoke, but […]
For the last months I’ve been a low time pilot (read about the reasons here), and this will continue at least until summer 2008. The strategy I defined is working fine - I renewed my IFR rating last week. I will move to my new place by the end of march, and I will publish […]
A friend of mine told me he got slightly scared because he’s been welcomed on an airliner by a co-pilot looking like a teenager. I’m personally quite bad at guessing how old someone is, but I know the pilot’s licences rules quite well. I can promise that no teenager will ever act as an airline […]
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 […]
You’re getting bored of DA40 planes ? Lucky you, I will now post about a C172 in which a plastic engine has been retrofied. Unfortunately for my own experience, it has classical instruments, and is VFR only. I think you need to know that I converted to C172 by the very end of last year, […]
This post presents what you can expect from a DA40 (plastic engine) differences training under JAA rules. I talk here of a DA40, with classical instruments, not G1000.
The theory part will focus on diesel operations, but that’s easy, and on electrical system, which is of paramount importance when a plastic engine is part of the […]
