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Preflight Inspection

Preflight Inspection The Preflight Process for an Airplane **The purpose of this post it to share with you a video that walks you through the preflight process.  If you are a new student then I...

Flying with Color Blindness

Flying with Color Blindness Though color blindness may not seem interesting to anyone who doesn’t have firsthand experience with it, and reading about it may not feel like a worthwhile...

Flying to the Chamberlain Basin Airstrip

Flying Idaho Backcountry: Chamberlain Basin People learn to fly for a variety of reasons. Some simply want to be in the air with the freedom of flying like a bird, others may be intrigued with the...

Ground Effect

All about Ground Effect Let’s start by saying that a wing is a complex and highly engineered structure.  It is not my intention to communicate information sufficient to allow you (the...

Meet a Disciple of Flight – Brian Hauge

Meet a Disciple of Flight – Brian Hauge Subject: Aviator Pilots The Cessna L-19 O-1 Bird Dog Specifications (O-1E) Crew: 2 Length: 25 ft 9 in (7.85 m) Wingspan: 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m) Height: 7ft...

Now That’s a Big Arrow.

All about the beacon system and aviation navigation arrows that used to guide pilots across the country. File Under: Aviation History Our present is littered with remnants of technology from the past;...

NOOOOOOOOO!!! I Screamed at the Sky….

How I got started in aviation: making airplane videos I was eight years old, standing in the middle of endless miles of sagebrush, all alone, defiant, angry, with a three foot stick of wood in my hand...

Instrument Flying

Discussing Instrument Flying I can still hear my instrument instructor, “where are you going?” when my heading varied by even 2 degrees. I was doing everything I could to keep the airplane pointed in...

Fact – A Geek is NOT a Nerd

Meet the Aviation Geeks A geek is not a nerd! Okay, what’s the difference? A nerd is, by definition: “The people you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult”...