Author: Jamie Beckett

The FAA provides guidance to pilots about talking on the radio — guidance that is too often misunderstood, unknown, or […]

This one’s all about improving the success rate of the 51% of the population we’ve done such an exceptional job […]

This past week an inexcusably argumentative exchange between a controller and a pilot, a Certificated Flight Instructor, made its way […]

Aviation is a relatively small but absolutely vital industry. For many of us general aviation is the entry point to […]

No matter how much fun you have at an airshow, the trip home is always a welcome time. Source: general […]

You never too young — or too old — to learn how to fly. The only thing stopping you is […]

Breaking in a new engine requires heightened focus, along with some parameters for the first few hours of flight: Stay […]

For someone whose labors are often indistinguishable from what most folks would consider playtime, the desire to lay low, to […]

The lessons waiting to be learned just inside the SUN ‘n FUN gates may be exactly what your town or […]

The CFI’s role is to teach. To demonstrate. To evaluate the performance of the individuals they work with. But that […]