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Last updated January 25th, 2010

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Confusion in the cockpit

I would like to share with you two recent situations I found myself in while flying around to illustrate the fact that, as a pilot, you can’t let your mind wander even for a minute.

 Location: Telluride, Colorado Airspeed: 180 kts Altitude: 12,000 ft MSL

Co-pilot: "Center, ABC has airport in sight."

Center: "ABC, [...]

Making flight training more affordable

There is a lot involved in a flight lesson. While you may only log around 1.0 hours at a time, in actuality you will spend close to twice that at the airport. The pre-briefing, walk-around of the plane, startup/post startup/runup checklists and landing and stopping checklists all add up to quite a bit of time [...]