Pilot Proficiency

By rejecting ICAO’s age 67 proposal, ALPA and APA expose a double standard.

Instructors and examiners must ensure they protect themselves in many aspects.

CFIs must carefully consider when it’s time to ‘let them out of the nest.’

Importance of modeling good behavior and being responsible for every pilot trained can’t be understated.

Partner program offers streamlined training with a job offer after graduation.

Fledgling IFR student wants to know if that situation renders your flight school aircraft unusable.

Close call shows unpredictable and unforgiving nature of in-flight structural phenomenon.

Sometimes a CFI needs to put themself in the learner’s position.

Add night, mountains, or IMS, and the situation can worsen quickly.

Combination of factors—contamination, ground effect, and upward acceleration—all pushed toward a stall.