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.

Our Latest Update

Nearly four hundred passengers trapped in a hollow aluminum tube, traveling at over 80% the speed of sound and nearly 40,000 feet in the air. It is an act of faith that everyone involved is the best at what they do: the people who built the aircraft, the airline that operates it, the cabin crew, and the pilots. All the best. But is that true? A new novel: "Equity Airlines" available now. Equity Airlines

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Our Previous Update:

Wise saying: “Whatever is drilled in during training comes out the other end in combat - no more, no less.” One more: “In combat you do not rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training." This is valuable advice even if you don't expect to be in combat anytime soon. If you've been a professional pilot for more than a few years, you can probably see where I am going with this. Sink to Your Training

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 (hard cover, paperback, Kindle audiobook, and eBook):

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.

Also available in audiobook (Kindle), paperback and eBook:

The Brothers Bellum

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

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