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Don’t Fly Unless You Use This Checklist!

September 1, 2021

Before each flight, you execute a preflight inspection of the aircraft you will be going to fly in. You ensure that it’s airworthy, legal and safe to try the skies. That’s an important step that you need to never, ever skip. Another item to be sure of is one which might not maintain your aircraft…

The Quickest Way to Get a Flying License

December 18, 2020

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Sport Pilots can be trained and qualified to fly in Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) such as airplanes, weight-shift aircraft, powered parachutes, gliders, and lighter-than-air (airships or balloons). The Experimental Aircraft Association also believes that gyroplanes will shortly be contained in the LSA category, making a total of six distinct forms of aircraft that the sport…

False Alarms

October 19, 2020

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Everybody has heard the story of the boy that cried wolf. In Search and Rescue, we have a very similar situation involving ELTs (Emergency Locator Transmitters). The ELT is a excellent device designed to provide a timely response to a critical, potentially life-threatening, situation. But most ELT activations are false alarms, whereas many actual emergencies…

Travel Tips:Tips for Safer flying

June 21, 2019

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Flying can be an adventure, but like everything else in life, there are small risks. Despite the fact that flying is the safest way to travel in this modern age, here are some tips to minimize any unfortunate, but unlikely event of an emergency situation. Try to only fly nonstop routings Takeoff, climb, descent, and…