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Touch and go

Posted on March 2, 2021 by

mike Posted in — 4 Comments ↓

The small GA airport in the town Stefan and I grew up in had this tire testing center right next to it. In addition to a circular track and a sort of race track layout, it also had a long …

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Tagged with: checkride, exam, flight student, interstate, landing, test, touch-and-go

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

The flight time conundrum

Posted on May 5, 2020 by

mike Posted in — 7 Comments ↓

Many of you with actual paying flying jobs will remember this phase in your aviation career. Some of you might have given up at this point in your flying career and went to do something else for a living. I …

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Tagged with: aviation, career, chuck, flight student, jason, job, pilot

Australia is different

Posted on December 3, 2019 by

mike Posted in — 5 Comments ↓

It seems like the whole East Coast of Australia is on fire at the moment from south of Sydney all the way north of Brisbane. I wish my colleagues from Down-Under all the best and hope they stay safe. Personally, …

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Tagged with: Australia, brush fire, bush fire, coriolis force, firefighting, flight student, forest fire, student pilot, tv, wild land fires