Dual-Think Revisited
Years ago, I wrote an article for these pages in which I opined that there was no need or fiscal justification for the dual...
Back to Basics
Pilots have to keep up with quite a bit of knowledge. There are regulations, procedures, chart symbology, various engineering disciplines, and many others. For...
Just a Little Fog
If you’ve ever faced a go/no-go decision with tantalizing blue sky above a low layer of fog, you know that departing IFR is an...
Build Your Own Sim, Pt. 2
Assume you’re about to buy a new airplane. All the pre-buy inspections came back clean, the money cleared out of escrow, and you’re already...
Low Clouds at Altitude
For this sim challenge, we’re back in the mountains because it’s just so much fun in the sim. You’ll fly two short hops over...
Li-Ion Battery Safety
Since Sony introduced the first commercial Lithium-Ion battery in a laptop computer in 1991, these batteries have grown to become the dominant power source...