From all of us at SAFE, our heartfelt wishes for a very warm and blessed holiday season for our readers, members, and supporters. Hopefully, you find yourself among family and friends, enjoying some time away from the usual demands of life. And every year’s end is also a time to reflect and reformulate our plans

Aviation safety as we practice it involves examining accidents for causal factors, “errors and omissions,” and deriving theories about what the pilots are doing wrong. Our primary mission in generating safety is to identify and mitigate threats and trap errors. And while there is value in this approach, it gets depressing since pilots end up

We humans can become totally stupid – inducing a “do it yourself lobotomy”-  when we experience threat or panic.  We have all “choked” during a test or performance and perhaps even experienced “startle” in an airplane. We suddenly are a passenger and not a pilot-in-command. Here are some techniques to cope with this natural phenomenon

The easiest pathway to success on the oral portion of any check ride is to first thoroughly read and understand the FAA standard for certification. These are FREE online and fairly succinct. These standards represent the FAA required “rules of engagement” that your DPE must follow by regulation (check out this FAA guidance intended for