Is this the right airport?

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Is this the right airport?

Posted on February 1, 2022 by

mike Posted in — 10 Comments ↓

We make fun of Chuck always flying into restricted areas. In real life, these incursions are taken very seriously. A few years ago, while working in Nevada for a fire contract, we were based at a very small airport for …

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Tagged with: ATC, computer game, flight lesson, lost, orientation, restricted area

Airspeed dropping to zero

Posted on August 17, 2021 by

stef Posted in — 3 Comments ↓

Considering that airspeed is basically the net speed at which you move through the surrounding air or vice versa, the surrounding air around you, I can safely say that I have achieved quite significant airspeeds just by standing in my …

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Tagged with: airspeed, aliens, flight lesson, flight student, pitot tube, speed

That feeling of being watched

Posted on June 8, 2021 by

stef Posted in — 2 Comments ↓

Alexa, am I being surveilled 24/7? … I don’t use Alexa, but I have Siri installed on my iPhone. I don’t use Siri either, but every now and then she feels I addressed her and starts up. Which means, the …

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Tagged with: f-15, flight lesson, intercepted, navigation, orientation, restriced area, student pilot

Practicing stalling

Posted on September 1, 2020 by

stef Posted in — 6 Comments ↓

Many years back, I translated one of our books into German, because many people kept asking me for a German version. So I gave it a try! Like with almost all of my projects, private or business related, I thought …

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Tagged with: flight lesson, flight student, jason, stalling, student pilot, waiting