The aviation industry has long debated the minimum flight hours required for pilots to obtain an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate, a prerequisite for serving as a pilot in command at major airlines. Currently, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandates … Continue reading
ASA again let me have the opportunity to work with their Oral Exam Guide series, this time working on updating the Private Pilot Oral Exam Guide, making it a 14th edition. This fourteenth edition of the Private Pilot Oral Exam … Continue reading
The FAA Safety Team’s FRAT tool, like many other FRATs, produces a score that will fall within one of three risk categories: Green (low), yellow (medium), and red (high). And an updated version of it was released in October of … Continue reading
Some airports have the benefit of having parallel runways. While this isn’t the case at all airports, those that do have them sometimes go through the question of “do they really need both runways.” This can be a hard question … Continue reading
