The Learning Never Stops!

Aviation is complicated business, and it can be deadly if not undertaken with the right mindset. Our goal here at Code 7700 is to prepare you to avoid the day you will need to Squawk 7700, but if that day ever comes, to prepare you to deal with it competently.

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This case study has made the usual circuits: magazines, YouTube, speeches. Most of the conclusions are the same: the pilots didn't know how to plan and execute the circle and had a few Crew Resource Management issues. All that is true, it tells you what happened but not why. Here is why: they were killed by their training. Case Study: CL-605 N605TR

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Available new, this month, the second in the series: Navigate. As most professional aviators know, the first priority is to fly the airplane (aviate) and the second priority is to keep the airplane pointed where it needs to be (navigate). Each chapter of "Navigate" is based on decades of experience and the inputs of hundreds of aviators. New book: Navigate

An Index of Previous Updates

If you remember seeing something on "Homeplate" in the last two years, you will find it here, in a list of recent lead stories. Lead Stories . . .

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My latest books . . .

The non-fiction books get into the science and technique of flying, the fiction books all have aviation lessons of their own.

Aviate: A Professional Aviator's Notebook

A collection of articles about the primary task of all pilots: Aviating.

Navigate: A Professional Aviator's Notebook

A collection of articles about the next task for all pilots: Navigating.

Equity Airlines

An airline decides hiring by diversity is more important than qualifications and experience. Fact or fiction?

Fly by Wired

A business jet more computer than airplane, impossible to hack, gets hacked.

The Brothers Bellum

Three brothers and the last air campaign of the Vietnam War.

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