Tag: faa

Noise cancelling technology was definitely a game changer. Almost every headset has them now, but I remember when they first started out. They didn’t quite work on helicopters, especially with two bladed systems and flying with the doors off. At …

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Halloween is approaching fast. Here in Austria, the custom has only caught on recently. I wouldn’t even call it a custom. In fact there are many people who are opposed to “importing American culture” and refuse to partake in any …

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I have flown over a quarter of a century by now, and I still don’t feel super comfortable every time I do a checkride with the FAA. I have done more of those than I can count over the years …

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While I doubt that this technique actually works on fouled spark plugs (although it might be worth a try, haha), sometimes problems actually do solve themselves when you do nothing. That approach works particularly well with other peoples’ problems that …

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