CFI Tips & Techniques: “Go Arounds” Craig O’Mara, GSLFIA Director Landings seem to be a fairly difficult maneuver for some of our students and they ARE a leading cause of accidents, so we CFI’s spend a lot of time helping our students to perfect them. We spend so much time on landings, and in our Read More …
By Craig O’Mara, GLSFIA Director CFI’s generally spend so much of our time preparing students for check rides that the tendency is to view PTS maneuvers as our sole responsibility. But after earning the certificates or rating, we have the opportunity to go “beyond the PTS”. How many times have you told a student that Read More …
H21 – SUS. 1300 departure, July 22, in a Turbo Arrow. Scattered layer 4500’, visibility greater than 3 miles with haze, light to moderate chop down low, 15 knot tailwind at altitude. 103 miles, an easy 45 minute flight. Preflight, run up, takeoff and climb all normal. 33″MP/ 2450RPM. Looks good and sounds good. Upon Read More …
Since most of our flying involves rather shallow turns so that we give our passengers a smooth ride, why do we even do Steep Turns? Because they’re in the Private and Commercial PTS might be a valid reason, but maybe more importantly because we should learn how our airplane handles in other parts of the Read More …
By Keith Meuller, GSLFIA Director As pilots one of the our primary responsibilities that we are required to accomplish before conducting a flight is the walk around or preflight inspection of the aircraft. The preflight is an essential and critical part of the pilot in command’s responsibility in determining that the aircraft is ready, airworthy and Read More …
My Father was an Air Force Pilot. He was stuck in Texas training young pilots. My Mother was a nurse. She was stuck with him. Somewhere along the way, I met the most important person in my life. He became my husband. He was Navy Intelligence, washed out pilot, could not be a Medical Doctor Read More …
I never thought I would be the old guy in the room but in my 30 years as a GSLFIA member I have seen continued growth and improvement in the organization. My $20 annual investment has returned dividends in safety and connections. My reasons for joining were camaraderie, professionalism and networking. GSFLIA offers an opportunity Read More …
For you astute observers out there, you may have noticed that this month’s newsletter is focused on why you should be a member of GSLFIA. So I’m going to depart from my regular “CFI Tips and Techniques” column and try to explain what I get out of the GSLFIA and maybe get you thinking about Read More …