Training

CAE and Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) have extended their partnership with a new facility at the Arlington Municipal Airport (GKY) in the southern part of Dallas, which will focus on providing Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) to pilots flying business and commercial aircraft. Beginning next spring, pilots at the facility will learn how to […]

Stallion 51, a company out of Kissimmee, Florida, known for its P-51 Mustang training, has launched a subsidiary called UAT — an upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) program that provides training specifically targeted to corporate pilots. UAT uses an Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros that is uniquely equipped to do UPRT training in a VFR […]

Continental Motors president Rhett Ross says that his company’s** Zulu storefront simulator training center** is paying dividends, as it passed a number of significant milestones recently. Zulu opened for business on July 13th. Today it has 18 students and has trained students who have earned private and instrument ratings. Perhaps the most significant milestone was […]

This week, Robert Goyer reported on the new certification standards that are currently in the making at the FAA. Our industry is in dire need of this change. We need it to improve our safety record and to attract more people into the wonderful world of flying. I learned to fly in a Cessna 152 […]

Canadian simulator maker CAE, based in Montreal, has partnered with Aviation Performance Solutions (APS) Emergency Maneuver Training in Mesa, Arizona, to provide Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) to students and instructors at CAE’s Oxford Aviation Academy. CAE says it recognizes the value this type of training has on preventing loss of control in flight […]

In conjunction with the annual AOPA Aviation Summit last week, AOPA arranged the Flight Training Summit — a meeting with flight instructors and industry representatives to introduce AOPA’s new field guides to flight training, get ideas for initiatives for the Center to Advance the Pilot Community and announce the winners of the organization’s new training […]

What should a student do if an instructor asks him to do something that appears unsafe, against the regulations or otherwise ill-advised?_** **_ Jeff Edwards has been a flight instructor since 1982 and is a former FAA-designated pilot examiner. He has been a six-time designated Master Certificated Flight Instructor. In 2003, Jeff was selected as […]

Last month I discussed the need for balance between hand-flying the airplane and using the autopilot. Another example of a need for balance is in the traditional versus scenario-based flight training debate. When I received my flight training, the airplanes had only basic radios and instruments, and the only parts of most flights that were […]

When, if at all, would you let a student bring an iPad or other electronic flight bag into the cockpit?_** **_ Chris Esposito co-founded Orlando, Florida’s first sport pilot flight school, First Landings Aviation, before putting his skills to use at Air Orlando Aviation, where he instructs in both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. Chris has […]

These days, with GPS-direct clearances available for IFR flights, you may think that filing for a VFR-on-top clearance doesn’t make sense. And being governed by both VFR and IFR rules may not sound particularly attractive either. But there are times when these clearances can be very handy. When there are localized low clouds, as there […]