How to Sabotage Your Flight Training October 2022 By Rod Machado Are you interested in sabotaging your flight training experience? OK, then let me help. Here’s how to do it. Before you begin your flight training, demand to...
Picking Our Cockpit Chiefs September 2022 By Rod Machado When Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis and Clark expedition) encountered the Hidatsas indian tribe for the first time, he attempted to explain the idea of peace...
Fantasy Based Energy Management Training for Pilots August 2022 Is it possible that you have no idea how to fly an airplane? Until now, you’ve probably been flying wrong, and “wrong” is the reason pilots experience loss of control,...
What General Grant Can Teach Pilots About Anxiety January 2022 By Rod Machado When Bob stepped into his Cessna 172 on a recent Sunday morning, he had no idea how difficult it would be to apply power for takeoff. No, his airplane was...
ADF Navigation: The Basics November 2021 Automatic Direction Finding (ADF) Navigation:On Not Being a Homing BoyBy Rod Machado It's been said that anyone who keeps an ADF unit in his airplane does so because he can't...
Why We Fly? July 2021 Pop psychologist Leo Buscaglia once said, “When you learn something new, you become something new.” This is a vivid description of the benefits of learning to fly.
Airport Holding Markings: You Can Fool Some of the People... June 2021 By Rod Machado Here's the scenario: From your present position shown in the graphic above ATC says, "....taxi to Runway 19R via taxiway Whiskey, hold short of Runway 19R at...
GONE: Slow Flight at Minimum Controllable Airspeed June 2021 In its 1965 Flight Training Handbook, the FAA dedicated over two pages of text to explain the concept of flight at minimum controllable airspeed (MCA)
How to Be a Good Student May 2021 By Rod Machado Every student wants a good instructor. That’s given. What’s often not understood by these same students is that good instructors also want good students. The problem is...
