Tag: helicopter

When I was working for the flight school back in the day, some of my customers, who own their own aircraft, always gave me a hard time for doing way too detailed of a preflight. They called it “a mechanic’s …

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Remember when MythBusters did the segment to see if an airplane still would take off, even if it’s on a belt that is running the opposite direction at the airplane’s takeoff speed? As a pilot with an engineering degree, I …

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I venture to say that nobody here will be surprised at the fact that Chuck doesn’t look at his gauges and probably doesn’t even know what all he has on his dashboard. In his defense though, he does fly a …

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I often wonder what’s behind the phrase “minor technical difficulties” whenever you hear the phrase used in real life. Is it really something technical? Or maybe just a crucial employee who has a case of diarrhea? It can mean anything, …

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