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 [...]
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Guidance on Staying Current in the FAA Safety Briefing, Sep/Oct 2010
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 [...]
How to validate your WINGS credits on FAASafety.gov
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 [...]
FAA Runway Incursion Video
Was That For Us? To help address the problem of runway incursions the FAA co-produced a DVD in conjunction with the Airline Pilots Association and United Airlines. This video is reproduced below and focuses on runway safety best practices for commercial operations at towered and non-towered airports.
Sport Pilot links from Bob Comperini and Aliseo
Just a quick note to thank Bob Comperini (fly-ul.com) and Aliseo Flying Boats (flying-boat.com) for their links in to PrepareToTest.com. PrepareToTest is one of the few places that provide online practice for the Sport Pilot exam and its been great to see how the number of Sport Pilot subscriptions has been going up and up [...]
