Author: Jamie Beckett

The truth is pilots can adopt procedures that, if followed, would prevent most gear-up events. We should, too. Fewer insurance […]

We don’t know what we don’t know, until someone helps us learn it. Should we somehow get past the educational […]

Buying an aircraft is closer to buying a house than buying a car. Everything is negotiable, including the purchase price. […]

In a very real sense, whether these programs aimed at teenagers survive and thrive or wither and die is dependent […]

There very well may come a day when we can’t fly anymore. There will almost certainly come a day when […]

If you are one of these CFIs who believes it is perfectly reasonable to troll for a Friday night companion […]

I began flying just as a hobby initially. I had no intention of turning it into a career. But it […]

Students cancel lessons, show up unprepared, and generally fail to make significant progress toward their goal of learning to fly […]

A CFI is a service provider. We charge the customer a specified dollar amount for instruction. If the service is […]

It is a head-scratcher for me to understand why so many of us are afraid to seek real help from […]