by B.J. Slater | Mar 30, 2018 | Always Learning, Tips and Techniques
Advice for those new to driving 100+ horsepower tricycles. If you’re new to flying airplanes, taxiing is a skill that can be hard to master. Steering with your feet, having more than one brake, and no gas pedal makes for a strange arrangement. Here’s a quick list of...
by B.J. Slater | Feb 20, 2018 | Always Learning, Instruction Techniques
Do you hate practicing power-on stalls? If so, you’re not the only one. For many pilots, a departure stall performed at full-power feels as close to an unintentional spin entry as you can get. Our palms sweat a little as we see the high pitch attitude and...
by B.J. Slater | Feb 15, 2018 | Aerodynamics, Always Learning, Instruction Techniques
As a flight instructor and card-carrying aerodynamics geek, adverse yaw is something I thought I knew all about. I can smoothly deliver the checkride-ready explanation for what it is and how airplanes are designed to correct for it. So, I was a little shocked when I...
