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Is It A Bird? A Plane? Or A Skydiver?
Imagine you're flying along the coast near Fernandina Beach, maybe headed north to St. Simon's for lunch -- and you see [...]
VFR Navigation: ACS vs. Reality
FAA Pilot's Handbook Of Aeronautical Knowledge, Chapter 16, Navigation. Why do some flight instructors still insist that their students use [...]
Instrument Rating ACS Update May 2024
The FAA recently updated several airman testing standards documents including the Instrument Rating - Airplane ACS (Airman Certification Standards). The first thing you'll [...]
Managing Aircraft Energy
Updated January 24, 2025 In 2021, the FAA published a revision of the Airplane Flying Handbook, one of the core [...]
Family Summer Trip in N65842
Earlier this year, while planning our summer vacation, we thought about flying N65842 out west, stopping in Sedona, Grand Canyon [...]
Reality Check
Learning to fly is cheap. Becoming pilot in command is expensive. My original title for this post was “Higher Education.” [...]
Loss Of Thrust On Takeoff
Note to readers: The scenarios, calculations, graphics, information and opinions contained in this post are not intended as flight instruction. [...]
Takeoff Briefing
Have you ever thought about what you would do if the engine wasn’t producing enough power to get you airborne during takeoff, or quit immediately [...]
Flying Lessons: Carburetor Ice
On Friday, October 21, an instructor and a student were on a long cross country in N65842. The student pilot was receiving VFR flight following [...]
V-Speeds: Attitude is Everything
Not one of our CFIs. But a decent t-shirt nonetheless. We've all heard the phrase, "attitude is everything." This is especially true for [...]
Magnetic Compass Q&A
Some of you may remember the classic scene from the 1990s television show, Seinfeld, where disgruntled postal worker Newman proudly proclaims that zip codes are [...]
General Aviation Vacation
Dana, Alex and Meredith Holladay at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI, July 28, 2022. Last week, Dana and I flew one of our [...]
Pilot-In-Command-ness
Over the last 20 years, Dana and I have collectively provided more than 15,000 hours of flight instruction to hundreds of students. With our extensive [...]