by Clay | Aug 30, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
I had just dropped my wife off at the Cherokee County Airport (KCNI), north of Atlanta, on our way back from Tennessee. We had flown to Nashville for an overnight trip to surprise her mom for her birthday (read the blog here). Having been at a conference in Atlanta,...
by Clay | Aug 23, 2017 | Manned Flight
When we fly, our hope is that everything goes smoothly. We take care to build in redundancies and check and double check as much as possible. When things do go wrong, however, the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) teaches us about a couple of different radio...
by Clay | Aug 16, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
We called it the south practice area. Flying over open fields and farmland in Georgia’s lake country was a good place to practice. There are plenty of emergency landing fields, few populated areas and little terrain. It’s quiet airspace, too. I’ll...
by Clay | Aug 9, 2017 | Manned Flight
The cockpit is an expensive classroom. When it comes to flying, the more you can do on the ground, the better. Studying, whether books, videos or a classroom setting, is certainly a necessary component of ground time, but what else can be done to utilize your time on...
by Clay | Aug 3, 2017 | Manned Flight, Simulated Flight
Basic chair flying can be done anywhere. You could be actually sitting in a chair, if you like it literal, reading through a checklist and visualizing the steps. Or maybe you walk around outside with a chalk runway on the ground, checklist in hand, talking through...
