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One more thing... Treat your students as customers, not employees. You are there to serve them, not the other way around. Read a couple of books on customer service. I learned quite a log from this one...

My best advice is to know the references for what you teach. Do not teach something just because it was the way you were taught. Find out if it is supported by the FAA materials. In 2009, I was furloughed from my airline. Nobody was hiring so I got my CFI reinstated and spend the next year...

Reports now that the Cybertruck has just become the best selling electric pickup in the US. Not me for. I'm not a truck guy. I would like to take one for a drive, though.

There was a time when airlines would have very short through-stops. Great Lakes used to do them in with one engine running and the cabin door open for only a few minutes. Southwest used to do 20 minute turns. A few passengers off, a few on, and off you go.

In a slow airplane, like the Archer, I'd go to idle when I commit to the landing then use pitch to maintain the glidepath to the beginning of the flare. If you want more flaps, add them as you slow below the appliable flap speeds. This will add to the complexity of your pitch control and...

You were not designated as PIC for any part of the flight. You were sole manipulator of the controls, for a portion of the flight, and, since you are MEL rated, you can log that sole-manipulator time as PIC per 14 CFR 61.51. You can log flight time when 14 CFR 61.51 says you can log flight...

Why? 34 years at this job and I've never received an IFR clearance/release by phone for a part 121 flight. FSS, by radio, only a handful of times. My company (10-7) pages for PWM says to obtain clearance from PWM Departure, Boston Center, or Bangor Radio (120.9). Wouldn't resort to calling...

They would have been talking to Center to get their ATC clearance and IFR release. Possibly forgot to switch back to the radio tuned to CTAF.

What is the "Look" step? The upset recovery training at the airline uses Push, Roll, Thrust, Stabilize which seems very similar to what you were taught.

I don't have a lot of time flying turbos but I did fly the C-207 and C-402 on Grand Canyon tours in 1990. Both had Continental engines, IIRC, though the details have faded. When I'd go into work I'd always hope to be assigned the C-402 but sometimes fly the C-207. It seemed like a real dog...

Start by reading 14 CFR 91.126 through 91.131. Pay particular attention to the differences in the regulations between airports with, and without, operating control towers. Spoiler alert, there are fewer requirements that you have to comply with other than complying with ATC instructions...

The FAA's definition of a runway incursion is, "Any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take off of aircraft."...

No need to abort. Just set takeoff thrust, like you're supposed to do. I have ~5,400 hours in 737s, both the NG and the MAX. I don't say that to invoke the appeal-to-authority fallacy, but to say that, in that time, I've never had the autothrottles fail when setting TO thrust. It isn't...

The 757/767 fleet is still in extensive use around the world. The 757 production was stopped, not because its technology was obsolete, but because newer designs were more efficient. The replacements, mostly the A321 and 737-900/9, are more efficient but they are also less capable and have a...

Lots of airliners are not FBW. That doesn't make them obsolete, as the author implies. Some are still rolling off the assembly line without FBW. The airplanes that fly the president around are not FBW. Those that will (eventually) replace them are only partially FBW (spoilers and outboard...

The choice of storage locations is something that whomever manages the airplane would have made. No way to know what factors drove the decision on the location.

It ends when the passengers are safely deplaned and handed over to the contracted customer service personnel. The Captain has no authority over the Canadian border control. The replacement crew was on reserve so their duty-day is limited by the time that they started their reserve...

According to the article, a 777. The crew can not continue, with the replacement airplane, until they've had their required crew rest, which can not start until they leave the airport and reach a hotel. The operating airline contracts with a local airline to provide services for the...

Triple-INS, triple-FMC, triple-GPS, triple-autopilot w/zero-zero autoland capability. I'm not sure what avionics you'd want that it doesn't have. It you want to replace the remaining analog instruments, there are flat panel mods available which also get ride of the original six crt efis and...

That is not how the 757's flight controls work. The 757/767 flight controls are hydraulic using three independent hydraulic systems. Each control surface is powered by at least two of the three systems--the rudder is powered by all three. They criticize the airplane for being too old because...