On December 22, 2009, an American Airlines flight from Miami to Kingston, Jamaica, overran the runway at around 65 miles an hour, went through a fence, across a road, and came to rest on the beach.
Simulator training is an extremely valuable training tool for staying proficient, and having access to even a basic home sim can revolutionize your preflight planning.
It was a perfect day for flying 70 miles north of Seattle to Orcas Island. My wife and I were flying to a friend’s birthday party in a 1983 Cessna TR182 with retractable landing gear.
Operating at a nontowered airport can be a complex melting pot of all types of aircraft, flown by pilots of vastly different levels of experience. Throwing your IFR training flight into the mix can be tricky.
As a pilot for a passenger airline, one major responsibility of my job is to find the smooth air. Most days, Mother Nature makes this task easy. Some days, however, a good ride can be as elusive as the winning Powerball ticket. So how do we deal with it?