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Posts tagged as "Safety"
Visual Scanning
Visual Scanning is very important to keep yourself from being involved in a midair collision. The FAA talks about it, but it is a difficult thing to illustrate. But luckily there is a way to dramatically show how your eyes can play tricks on you so that you can lose sight of (or never find ...
FAA Safety Forums at Sun ‘n Fun
When making the trip to Sun ‘n Fun, the last thing a lot of pilots think about is attending safety seminars or even regular forums. After all, there is so much else to do there at the event that sitting still for any length of time seems somehow wrong. However, there are a lot of ...
As We Fill Our Skies with UAV’s
One of the unwritten basics of flight is that everyone has a life-and-death stake in midair collisions. That rule has been turned upside-down by the CIA, the military, and now policing organizations by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The link below takes you to a story at Defensetech about a collision between a UAV and ...
Jim Sweeney, SweeneyCorp (4/12/11)
So just what is the FAA's FAASTeam Safety Standdown? Jim Sweeney explains and talks about what the program emphasizes and locations participating in the Standdown.
Robert Heimberger, St. Louis Rotocraft Club (4/12/11)
Good pilots work to prevent emergencies by making sure things are right before they ever take off. But sometimes despite all reasonable precautions, emergencies can and do happen in flight. Bob Heimberger talks about how preparation for emergencies can help save the day.
Michael Purdy and Jeff Goin, Powered Paragliding Radio (12/28/10)
Jeff Goin's fame is growing. While in airline captain mode he is recognized as "The Fan Man" by an airline passenger. Jeff and Michael Purdy talk about paramotor safety improvements which sparks the idea of specialty machines for training and advanced pilots.
Jim Sweeney, SweeneyCorp (12/7/10)
With the trip to the Bahamas coming up for some pilots, Jim Sweeney joins us to talk about general precautions and planning that goes with every trip over big water. Planning, supplies, and emergency equipment vary with the climate and the temperature of the water you are flying over.
Ethanol: A very real danger
When ethanol first came on the scene, we started to test it in the lab. The fuels with ethanol cleaned out our fuel systems and caused a number of leaks. Most people think that when a fuel line is made of neoprene or Buna-N rubber that the name completely defines what that rubber is. What ...
The Problem Isn’t Ethanol, It’s BOB
Ethanol in our fuel continues to be a huge safety and maintenance problem for those of us using auto fuel or MOGAS. Unfortunately, the problem is more than just the ethanol. Now fuels are being manufactured to blend with the ethanol and these fuels are lower quality themselves. Dean Billing from GA News explains more.
Greg Gremminger, Magni USA (11/23/10)
It is an airplane world. So if you fly a gyroplane, you need to fit into that world when you are flying the pattern at airports. Greg Gremminger joins us to talk about how gyroplanes can safely integrate into the traffic pattern. Greg references a couple of FAA Advisory Circulars, AC 90-66A and AC 90-42F.