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ARINC 424 Shorthand

7/5/2022

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Flight Instructor employers In the United States

5/9/2022

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​The following is a list of some of the major flight instructor employers in the United States. Most of these are part 141 programs, often affiliated with a University.
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  • A-B Tech Community College
  • ATP - Various Locations
  • Academy College
  • Aims Community College
  • Andrews University
  • Arizona State University
  • Atlantic Cape Community College
  • Auburn University
  • Austin Peay State University
  • Averett University
  • Aviator College Aeronautical Science & Tech
  • Baylor University 
  • Bergen Community College
  • Big Bend Community College
  • Bowling Green State University Aviation Program
  • Bridgewater State University
  • Broward College Aviation Institute
  • California Aeronautical University
  • California Baptist University
  • Casper College
  • Central Christian College of Kansas/International Aero Academy
  • Central Oregon Community College
  • Central Texas College
  • Central Washington University
  • Chandler-Gilbert Community College
  • Clark State Community College
  • Clover Park Technical College
  • Cochise College
  • College of Southern Nevada
  • Colorado Northwestern Community College
  • Community College of Allegheny County
  • Community College of Baltimore County
  • Community College of Beaver County
  • Cornerstone University
  • Craven Community College
  • Cypress College
  • Delaware State University
  • Delta State University
  • Dutchess Community College
  • Eastern Kentucky University
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • Eastern New Mexico University Roswell
  • Edinboro University
  • Elizabeth City State University
  • Embry Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona
  • Embry Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott
  • Everglades University
  • Fairmont State University
  • Farmingdale State College
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • Florida Memorial University
  • Florida State College at Jacksonville
  • Fox Valley Technical College
  • Gallatin College
  • Gateway Technical College
  • Glendale Community College
  • Green River College
  • Hampton University
  • Henderson State University
  • Hesston College
  • Hinds Community College
  • Hobe Sound Bible College
  • Indian Hills Community College
  • Indiana State University
  • Institute of Aviation at Parkland College
  • Inter American University of Puerto Rico
  • Iowa Lakes Community College
  • Ivy Tech Community College
  • Jackson Community College
  • Jacksonville University
  • Kansas State University
  • Kent State University
  • Kishwaukee College
  • Klamath Community College
  • Lake Area Technical Institute
  • Lake Superior College
  • Lane Community College
  • LeTourneau University
  • Lehigh Carbon Community College
  • Lenoir Community College
  • Lewis University
  • Liberty University
  • Louisiana Tech University
  • Lynn University
  • Marywood University
  • Mercer County Community College
  • Metropolitan State University of Denver
  • Miami-Dade College
  • Middle Georgia State University
  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Minnesota State University-Mankato
  • Moody Bible Institute
  • Mt. San Antonio College
  • North Shore Community College
  • Northwest College
  • Northwestern Michigan College
  • Ohio University
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Orange Coast College
  • Ozarka College
  • Pacific Union College
  • Pasco-Hernando State College
  • Polk State College
  • Portland Community College
  • Purdue University
  • Quincy University
  • Rochester Community & Technical College
  • Rocky Mountain College
  • Sacramento City College
  • San Bernardino Valley College
  • San Diego Christian College
  • San Diego Miramar College
  • San Jose State University
  • Sandhills Community College
  • Schenectady County Community College
  • Sinclair Community College
  • South Dakota State University
  • South Louisiana Community College
  • Southeastern Oklahoma State University
  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  • Southern Utah University
  • Southwestern Illinois College
  • Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
  • St. Louis University
  • Tarrant County College
  • Tennessee State University
  • Texas A&M University - Central Texas
  • Texas Southern University
  • Texas State Technical College - Waco
  • The Ohio State University
  • The University of Memphis
  • Thomas Edison State College
  • Treasure Valley Community College
  • Tulsa Community College
  • University of Alaska - Anchorage
  • University of Alaska - Fairbanks
  • University of Central Missouri
  • University of Cincinnati - Clermont College
  • University of Dubuque
  • University of Maine at Augusta
  • University of Maryland Eastern Shore
  • University of Nebraska - Omaha
  • University of Nebraska Kearney
  • University of North Dakota
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Utah State University
  • Utah Valley University
  • Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology
  • Vermont Technical College
  • Vincennes University
  • Walla Walla University
  • Wallace State Community College
  • West Virginia University Institute of Technology
  • Western Colorado Community College
  • Western Michigan University
  • Western Oklahoma State College
  • Yavapai Community College
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The 1,500 Hour Rule - And why It Was All Optics

4/27/2022

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Public perception in aviation is incredibly powerful. Visit any airline or charter jet company website and you will quickly find the company bragging about how experienced their pilots are, because that is what the public wants: experienced pilots. It makes all the passengers feel good; comfortable; safe. It sells! 

Of course, what the public actually wants are safe pilots. A pilot’s level of experience certainly is a factor in overall safety, but there are plenty of very experienced pilots who have proven to be much more dangerous than pilots who had a fraction of their experience. The most prominent example might be the Colgan Air 3407 crash in 2009. In this accident, both pilots had well over 2,000 hours of flying experience. The NTSB found inappropriate stall recovery action by the captain to be the probable cause of the accident (the report can be found here).

The FAA’s reaction? Require all copilots to obtain their ATP certificate before being eligible to fly for a part 121 air carrier. The most significant implication with this change was an increase in the minimum experience requirements for airline copilots from 250 hours to 1,500 hours. This law was what became known as the “1,500 hour rule.” Such a response was not included in the NTSB’s list of recommended actions for the FAA, and nowhere in the NTSB report did they suggest that copilot total time was a factor in the accident. 

The “1,500 hour rule” is a perfect example of a regulation that was passed purely for the public to see that the government was “doing something” in response to the Colgan Air crash in 2009. It was optics, and it was done for the sake of public perception.

In reality, it was a quality of training issue that should have been addressed by the FAA. The NTSB report contained a number of recommendations that it believed could help reduce the likelihood of this kind of accident occurring again, and the majority of those recommendations had to do with pilot training. But a 500% increase in required flight hours for copilots was a better sell to the public, because this way, the pilots would be more experienced. 

This rule seems to imply that a 1,500 hour pilot with 1,500 hours in the pattern flying, say, a Cessna 172 makes for a safer and more skilled copilot in a regional jet than someone with, say, only 1,000 hours total time, when 600 of those hours were accrued in the right and left seats of various turboprops and jets. Instructing in a 172 and acting as a crew member in a turbojet, though they share commonalities, require very, very different skill sets. I would argue that an additional 500 hours logged in a Cessna 172 is not nearly as valuable to a copilot in a jet as having a few hundred hours of previous experience in the jet. But the public and the politicians are not concerned about those “subtleties,” thus, it is unlikely that the 1,500 hour rule will be adjusted to allow consideration for quality of experience.

Though this rule change ultimately led to better compensation for pilots and airline accident rates have gone down, it is difficult to truly determine if requiring copilots to have an ATP is the cause. ​

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PA-28R-180 Piper Arrow POH/Owners Handbook

2/8/2022

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Tecnam P2002 Sierra Flight Manual

2/8/2022

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Vans RV-12 POH

2/8/2022

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Beechcraft Baron B55 POH

2/8/2022

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PA-23 Piper Apache POH/Owners Handbook

2/8/2022

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CE-525 Takeoff Correction Factors

1/30/2022

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The Golden Rule of Aviation

11/1/2021

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This is going to be brief, but if you are just getting into flying airplanes, what I am about to share will better prepare you to be in the right headspace. Science tells us that when we prepare ourselves mentally, painful realities can be easier to swallow. So here it is:
EVERYTHING in aviation will ALWAYS 1) take longer than planned or expected, and 2) will be more expensive than anticipated.
It doesn't take a big imagination to visualize what this might look like, but here are a few examples:
  • Did the flight school tell you it would take 3 months to go from zero to Private Pilot? It will probably take at least 4-5 months. Weather, maintenance, unexpected life events, scheduling problems, staffing problems, etc. can and do get in the way.
  • Did you budget out $8,000 to finish your license? You will probably need a couple thousand more dollars to get everything finished up after your flight school raised rental rates and you had to switch to the more expensive examiner because the original one went on vacation.
  • Your XC flight is estimated to take 1.5 hours, so you can probably make it home in time to make that dinner date. But guess what? Your pre-flight revealed you needed to add more oil, and it took you 20 minutes to acquire a bottle of Aeroshell because the FBO employee was on break. Actual headwinds were also much stronger than forecast, and this slowed you down considerably. It also increased hobbs time, so your bill was $50 more expensive than planned.
Sometimes you will feel like you can outpace or outsmart the Golden Rule, and you might - occasionally and temporarily. But it will always come back around, and for the sake of your sanity, its always best to go into any aviation-related activity with this Golden Rule in mind so that when it inevitably proves to be true over and over, your expectations have already been set to anticipate and (hopefully) accept it.

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