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
It seems that there are a lot of pilots out there that believe in the "Big Sky Technique." They think the amount of airspace out there is so wide and vast, and that they are so small, that the chances of hitting another aircraft is too small to worry about. And yet history begs to differ. The update of this often requested article was accompanied on the first day of July with a free PDF download in our weekly newsletter. The Big Sky Theory
Our Previous Update:
Sometimes the NTSB gets fixated on the technical parts of an accident and ignore the true cause; this is just such a case. "The operator's decision to allow a flight in an airplane with known, unresolved maintenance discrepancies, and the flight crew's failure to properly configure the airplane in a way that would have allowed the emergency or parking brake systems to stop the airplane during landing." True enough, but that wasn't the cause. Case Study: DA-50 N114TD
Another Previous Update
After a few cabin fires in my Boeing 707 squadron, we came up with this bit of wisdom: If you don't put a cabin fire out in eight minutes or less, you probably won't. If you are on fire and don't land the airplane in fifteen minutes or less, you probably won't. Now you will see that in just about so many words in AC 120-80 In-flight Fires, §14.1. That advisory circular, by the way, was updated in 2023 and is well worth the read. Cabin Fires
