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IAFTP Standards of Flight Training Professionalism: Hi Joannie You raise really good points and I will try to answer the FIRST one as an ITQI Consultan...
IAFTP Standards of Flight Training Professionalism: A few comments on the draft standards 1) About #1: probably a link to ICAO doc 9995: Manual of Evid...
Landing Considerations, Part-1: SLOPE: Very good analyses Alex. I remember my first trip into the Telluride Co airport. It was downslope ...
IAFTP Standards of Flight Training Professionalism: This question has also been posted to the LinkedIn NAFI – National Association of Flight Instructors...
IAFTP Standards of Flight Training Professionalism: Flight training by lfight schools with a liaison to an airline is preferable for MPL. Besides that t...
Best Graduates are Asked to Instruct: John Boyd asked his people whether they wanted to be or do. I think giving up the glory of combat o...
Landing Considerations, Part-1: SLOPE: Another excellent analysis by Alex. I challenge Alex to come up with a simple TOLD card like we use...
2013-0009-0409: First Learn to Fly the Airplane: I totally agree with this practice. I read 2013-0012-0409 first and would make the same positive co...
2013-0012-0409: Teaching a Student How to Really Know the Airplane: I totally agree with this practice and use it myself. Our sense of hearing out of trim relative win...
The Global Impact of the FAA NPRM regarding Pilot Certification and Qualification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations (U.S.): The director of a flight training organization just sent me this message: “We have re-trained a num...
The Global Impact of the FAA NPRM regarding Pilot Certification and Qualification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations (U.S.): Part of this legislation recommends that digital pilot records be required that contain a COMPREHENS...
What is ITQI and what does it mean to me as a pilot, instructor, and/or flight training organization?: One of the main objectives of the IATA Training and Qualification Initiative (ITQI) is to improve op...
What is ITQI and what does it mean to me as a pilot, instructor, and/or flight training organization?: To add to Bob’s explanations, the new ICAO doc 9995 was approved by the ICAO ANC last year (after co...
What is ITQI and what does it mean to me as a pilot, instructor, and/or flight training organization?: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) plans to publish Doc 9995: Manual of Evidence-B...
Identifying and Sharing Your Personal ‘Best Practices’: Peter-Bob Reser wrote a book, "How to Fly Airplanes," in which he emphasizes that the pilot stalls t...
How does your flight training organization manage compliance?: We use Noverant Online to manage compliance of our students, instructors and crewmembers. We started...
The Global Impact of the FAA NPRM regarding Pilot Certification and Qualification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations (U.S.): What is the current status of the NPRM? The following press report is dated Feb 13: http://www....
2013-0007-0439: Teaching Crosswind Landings: This is an excellent technique; I have been using it for years and have found it to be very effectiv...
NBAA Recurrent Training Project is Charting New Territory: The current issue of the Journal of Civil Aviation Training (www.halldale.com/cat) features an artic...
How does your flight training organization manage the daily training activities of its students?: Paperless141 provides Software Solutions for complete automation in the General Aviation industry, s...
How does your flight training organization manage the daily training activities of its students?: This question was also posted to the National Association of Flight Instructors discussion thread on...
What are the benefits and pitfalls of simulator use in primary flight training?: Here are some more posts from the LinkedIn NAFI discussion thread: CFI-13: “Simulators are a huge...
Upset Prevention and Recovery Training: An Integrated Approach to Reducing Loss-of-Control In Flight (LOC-I) Accidents: LOC-I is a still unmatched challenge. Acrobatic airplanes and airliner simulators are not able p...
2012-0023-0409: Night Maneuvers with a Full Moon: This appears to be a good confidence builder for night flying. In over 17,000 hours I have but litt...
2012-0022-0180: Applying FITS SBT Methodology and Learner Centered Grading: I observed this technique being used effectively by a large flight training facility in Prescott, Ar...