Posts under ‘FAA’

The FAA has just released four new handbooks covering the background information for the AMT Airframe and Powerplant certifications. Although aimed at people working on their AMT certifications, these books provide excellent information for pilots about how aircraft are constructed and how the powerplant and related systems work and as such are well worth a [...]

Now available online, the November/December 2010 issue of FAA Safety Briefing focuses on a subject fundamental to pilot safety: abnormal and emergency situations. The issue stresses the delicate art of planning for the “unplanned” and outlines several of the tools and resources pilots need to handle emergencies. Articles provide tips on unusual attitude recovery, partial-power [...]

The September/October 2010 FAA safety briefing [PDF download] has a number of good articles addressing the common challenge of maintaining proficiency as pilots. The first article, ‘Practice makes proficient‘, gives some guidelines on what makes for good practice – make it count (don’t fly the same hour over and over again), make it planned (schedule [...]

If you haven’t already seen it, the latest copy of the FAA’s Safety Briefing is available as a PDF download from their website: http://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/ and it has some really useful weather-related articles this month. This month’s edition covers topics like: Weather flying – a framework for the go/no-go decision Density Altitude – what is it, [...]

The FAA’s WINGS program has undergone some significant changes in recent months, one of which is the extensive use of the faasafety.gov website to manage your WINGS credits. While there are a great deal of new features available on their new site, one important task is being able to get appropriate credit for any approved [...]