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Mea Culpa from last week : Before getting to this week's topic. I owe you an apology for not checking Google Earth last week to see that Palo Alto airport was NOT in the midst of a housing development, relating to a Cessna 310 that crashed into a house during an IMC takeoff. Any fool can see that...
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Last week's Cessna 310 crash in Palo Alto follows a rare but unfortunately high visibility path. The aircraft went down shortly after takeoff in heavy fog. At this point no one has any idea what happened, yet there are already concerns about what an airport was doing in the middle of a housing dev...
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There's been much consternation over the Colgan Airways Q-400(Dash8) accident in Buffalo last year that was basically the result of a stall. There are many circumstances leading up to that and we'll have to more to say in an upcoming issue of AOPA Pilot. Most CFIs who've taught for any extended p...
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Despite last week's emphasis on midair collisions they are a small part of the GA safety picture. I'd like to draw your attention to a much bigger problem: VFR into IMC. When comparing the two in terms of media play, collisions get much more attention but as is often the case, it's a red herring.
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News flash!!!! LSA's may not be quite as dangerous as some attorneys and their purported experts thought. The NTSB's preliminary accident report involving a Tecnam LSA in Ft. Worth, Texas is now public. This accident generated a lot of media attention because it involved a high school aviation pro...
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As you're reading this I will be attending my first Soaring Society of America (SSA) Convention in Little Rock, AR. These are enthusiastic users of the airspace and most of the time powered aircraft and sailplanes co-exist quite nicely. Rarely is there a collision but as we've seen in the Hudson R...
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We've all been in the pattern at non-towered airports where there is more traffic than can be comfortably handled. This typically happens on a flying season weekend, between the hours of 1000 and 1800 in good VFR weather. That, not coincidentally, describes exactly when and where most midair colli...
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In the heavy iron world there is a push for better flight data recorders. FAA and NTSB has asked for more accuracy, more recording time and more robustness to the hardware. It helps tremendously with accident investigation but also in identifying precursors. There are now so few accidents in the s...
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