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-by Sherry Knight Rossiter      Imagine that you are on a solo cross-country flight in a single-engine airplane. According to your last calculation, you have used more fuel than you’d anticipated...

-by Sherry Knight Rossiter Stress hormones are catabolic in nature; in other words, they break the body down. In the last issue of SAFE, the magazine, we discussed the problems of stress relating...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! It is shocking that the FAA instructor, who might be teaching your child or significant other to fly, is only required to have a total of 200 hours and 5 hours...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! We have amazing technology in most of our airplanes these days. We navigate with satellites and have omniscient weather mapping on board. But despite all these...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! LIVE online this morning (Saturday, Sept. 12th) I will be presenting at the Online Safety Stand-Down and I invite you to watch this presentation (maybe better...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! The Aviation Weather Center breaks down the weather product into three categories: observations, forecasts, and advisories, or, as I like to say, look, look out,...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! Flying commercial-level pilot maneuvers is a wonderful challenge and a useful skill-builder for every pilot. These are not only fun and challenging but teach...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! As pilots, we all will eventually have to face the incapacitating effects of fear. This will either come during new flight experiences while training or when...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! As pilots, we are truly blessed to see the world from above and control this process artfully. Less than 1% of the US population will ever know this joy (pilots...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! Life is a series of “learning opportunities.” Usually, we don’t choose these challenges but – especially as pilots – we must step up and “make magic happen”...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! With COVID we have a record number of CFIs looking for work. But many CFIs have not learned to “market themselves” since times have been so good for the last 3-5...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! Every good DPE wants the applicant for a flight test to be successful. Examiners are all long-time flight instructors and are totally invested in the success of...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! As aviation educators, we are not only the front-line troops that mold all future pilots. We are also the most visible ambassadors for any growth in the aviation...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! I know what you are thinking. “Will these remote CFI hours count toward my 1500 for the airlines? Not likely, but this new technology provides great...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! Student progress and learning are primarily determined by the quality of the educator. Though 50% of the variance in educational effectiveness is the “raw...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! This week’s blog is by Hobie Tomlinson (see bio below). With 40K hours and 9 type ratings, Hobie developed much of what we now call CRM when he was a 747 captain...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! Among all the great lessons of the last few weeks, one should be abundantly clear; we humans eagerly embrace and hold passionately to half-truths and...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! The new FAA Aviation Instructor’s Handbook is finally available this week. A quick first pass reveals reorganization and updating with a laudable new focus on...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! The blog last week provided methods to instill an urge for excellence in your pilots, creating lifetime learners during initial flight training. This internal...

Weekly inspiration and ideas here! Achieving expertise in piloting requires so many diverse skills and aptitudes it almost defies explanation. In aviation, we point to experts like Sully or Al...