Where do I find what I am looking for? Here are two ways: an alphabetical list of every article on the webiste, and a list of each article under each top menu item.

— James Albright

1

Alphabetical

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, 0 to 9

A

A Professional Pilot's "Plan B"

Abort Authority

About (Code 7700 & me)

Absolute Authority

ACN versus PCN

Accident Investigation

Accident Rates

Aeromexico 498 & Piper N489F

Aeromexico 945

Aeroperú 603

Aérospatiale SN-601 Corvette N600RA

Age 60 / Age 65

Agriculture Import

Air Algerie 73

Air Blue 202

Air Canada 143

Air Canada 624

Air Canada 646

Air Canada 759

Air Canada 797

Air Cargo Carriers 1260

Air China 129

Air Florida 90

Air France 296

Air France 447

Air Illinois 710

Air Midwest 5481

Air Transat 236

Air Transport International 102

Airborne Express N827AX

Airbus Control Laws

Airbus A320 D-AXLA

Aircraft Acquisition Checklist

Aircraft Tires

Airport Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) Codes

Airport Selection

Airhub 4311

Airports

Airspace

Airspace Classification

Alaska Airlines 261

Allegheny Airlines 453

Alpha Protection

Alternate IAP Requirements

Altimeter Settings

Altimeter Temperature Correction

Altimetry Theory

Altimetry

Amateur Test Pilot

American Airlines 191

American Airlines 587

American Airlines 965

American Airlines 1420

American Airlines 1572

American International Airways 808

Ameristar 9363

Amp-Hour

An Open Letter To Recurrent Simulator Instructors

Angle of Attack

Antoinette IV & Farman III

Approach Ban

Approach Categories

Approach Impossible

Approach Lighting System

Approach Speed Additives

Approach Surveillance Radar

Approach VVI

Arcs

Arctic Weather

Arguing By Listening

ARINC 424 Shorthand

Asiana Airlines 214

Asiana Airlines 733

Aspen Airport, CO

Asymmetrical Thrust

Atlas Air 3591

Attracting the Next Generation

Avianca 52

Aviation Gurus

Automated Weather

Automation Resource Management

Autothrottle Landing

B

Babel Fish (Language Translators)

Back Course Localizer

Balance Tabs

Balked Landing

Basic Area Navigation (B-RNAV)

BD-700 C-GXPR

Bad Data

Bad Ideas

Because We've Always Done it This Way

Beechcraft King Air VH-SKC

Beechjet 400A XA-MEX

Better: Being a Better Student

Better: Being a Better Pilot

Better: Being a Better Crewmember

Better: Being a Better Captain

Better: Being Better

Blade Creep

Blue Spruce Routes

Boeing 737 G-EZJK

Boeing Model 299

Bomb Threat

Books (mine)

Braking Action

(OPT for better) Briefings

British Airways 9

British Airways 38

British Airways 5390

British Midland Airways 092

C

C-141 65-9405 & Luftwaffe 74

Cabin Cleaning

Cabin Fires

Cabotage

callouts

Call Signs

Canada eTA

Canpass

Carbon-Carbon Brakes

Career Advice

Career Notes

Careless and Reckless

Case studies

Cavok 7087

Cessna 421 N48DL

Cessna 550 N6763L

Cessna 680 N8JR

Cessna CJ2+ N380CR

Challenger 600 N370V

Challenger 604 C-FTBZ

Challenger 604 N90AG

Checklist Flows

Checklist Imperative

Checklist Philosophy

China Airlines 006

China Airlines 611

Circling Approach

Circling Approach Area

(U.S.) Circling Approach Minimums Are Too Low!

Circling Revisited

Circling: Good Riddance

Circuit Breakers

Class I versus Class II Airspace

Class B Airspace Woes

Clearance Readback

Coffin Corner

Cold Weather Operations

Cold Weather Refresher

Colgan Air 3407

Colgan Air 9446

Comair 5191

Compagnie des Grands & Daimler Hire Limited

Compartmentalization and a Focus on Flight

Compartmentalization and Family

Compartmentalization and Social Pressures

Compartmentalization and Work

Compartmentalization and Happiness

Complacency

Conditional Clearance

Continental Airlines 1404

Convective Weather

Contaminated Runways

Continuous Descent Final Approach (CDFA)

Controllability Check

Control Performance Technique

Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)

Corporate Airlines 5966

Cost Index

Course Reversal

Crew Resource Management (CRM)

Criticism

Crossair 3597

Crosswind Landing

CR-3 / CPU-26 Exercises

Ctrl-Alt-Del

Currency and Proficiency

Customs / Immigration / Quarantine (CIQ)

Cyber Security

D

Dealing With Change

Dealing With Experts

Declaring an emergency

Decision Making

Defying the Laws of Physics

Dekalb-Peachtree Airport, Atlanta, GA

Delta Air Lines 191

Delta Air Lines 9570

Departure Obstacle Avoidance

Descent

Desynchronosis

DHL 611 & Bashkirskie Avialinii 2937

Disinsection

Ditching

Diversions (movies and books)

Divert!

Dodging the Golden BB

Drag

Dual Qual

E

Eastern Air lines 14

Eastern Air lines 66

Eastern Air Lines 401

EC-135N 61-0328

Elal 1862

(What is) Electricity?

Electronic Advanced Passenger Information System (eAPIS)

EMB-135BJ N600XL & GOL 19078

Embraer EMB-550 Legacy 500 RA-02788

Emirates 521

Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR)

Engineering & math

Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS)

Equal Time Points (ETPs)

Eurocopter AS350-B2 N37SH

Executive Airlines N16EJ

Expect Departure Clearance Time (EDCT)

Extended Diversion Time Operations (EDTO/ETOPS)

EU Entry/Exit

EU Ramp Inspection Program (RIP)

EU RIP Expanded Checklist

F

Falcon 2000 CS-DFE

False Precision

Fatigue

Fault Tolerance

Favorite Books

Favorite Movies

Federal Express 647

Federal Express 1478

Fire

First Officer to Captain Upgrade Training

Flash Airlines 604

Flight Lesson 1 — Basic Flight

Flight Lesson 2 — Advanced Flight

Flight Lesson 3 — Experience

Flight Lesson 4 — Leadership

Flight Lesson 5 — People

Flight Math

Flight Department Succession Plan

Flight Discipline

Flight Operations

Flight Plan

Flying Tiger Line 45

Flying Tiger Line 66

Followership

Forecast Products

Frictionless Pulleys

Fuel Capacitance Probes

Fuel Density

Fuel Leak Inflight

Fuel Minimums

Fuel Stratification

Fueling

Functional Check Flights

Future Air Navigation System (FANS)

G

Galaxy Airlines 201

Germanwings 4U9525

Goals, Plans, Focus

Good Looking Corpse

Gray Areas

Grooved Runways

Gross Navigation Errors

Ground Effect

Ground Evacuation

Ground operations

Gulfstreams GV, G450, G500, G550, G600, G650

Gulfstream G550 N535GA

Gulfstream G650 N652GD

Gulfstream GIII N85VT

Gulfstream GIII N303GA

Gulfstream GIII VP-BLN

Gulfstream GIV G-GMAC

Gulfstream GIV N2SA

Gulfstream GIV N23AC

Gulfstream GIV N121JM

Gulfstream GIV N450KK

Gulfstream GIV N823GA

Gulfstream GV N777TY

Gyroscopes

H

Half Truths

Hall Effect Sensors

Handley Page O/400 G-EAKE

Hawker Siddeley HS-125 N831LC

Hazardous Materials (HazMat)

Head Up Display (HUD), Using a

Helios Airways 522

High Latitude Operations

High Speed Flight

Hiring and Keeping Business Aviation Professionals

Holding

Hot Brakes and Wheel Fires

Hot Towers

How to Chief Pilot

Hydraulic Pump

Hypoxia

I

IAI 1124 VH-AJP

Icing

Immediate Action!

Inert Knowledge

Inert Knowledge

Infinity + 1

Instrument procedures

Instrument Landing System (ILS)

International Flight Operations (the book)

International operations

It Takes Fuel to Carry Fuel

J

Japan Air Lines 123

Japan Air Lines 8054

Job, Career, or Calling?

Journey Log Book

K

Kalita 207

KC-135A 59-1443

KLM 867

Korean Air 221

Korean Air 769

Korean Air 801

Korean Air 803

Korean Air 852

Korean Air 2033

Korean Air 6316

Korean Air 8509

Korean Air Lines 007

Korean Air Lines 015

Korean Air Lines 084

Korean Air Lines 642

Korean Air Lines 902

L

L/DMAX

Lab Rat

Landing

Landing Flare

Laser Exposure

Leadership

Leadership 101

Leadership Applied

Leadership Secrets

Leadership Styles

Learning From Experience You Don't Have

Learjet N30DK

Learjet N47BA

Learjet N279AJ

Learjet N452DA

Learjet N999LJ

Left Seat (For the First Time)

Letters of Authorization (LOAs)

Lift

Lightning

Limitations Discipline

Line Operation Observation

Lion Air 904

Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV)

Lufthansa Papa Whiskey

Low Speed Flight

M

Mach Number Technique

Magazine articles

Maintenance Malpractice

Malaysia Airlines MH17

Martin 404, N464M

Maximizing Privacy in Spite of ADS-B

MCAS

Mechanics

Memorization Tasks

Memory Palace

Mentoring Leadership

Mentoring Through Hiring

Metric Altimetry

Minimum Equipment Lists (MELs)

Minimum Ground Speed Technique

Minimums

More stories

Mountainous Area Airports

Murphy

N

Navigation Accuracy Check

National Airlines 27

New Pilot Strategy (The boss's perspective)

New Pilot Strategy (The pilot's perspective)

Noise Abatement

Non-Directional Beacon (NDB) Approaches

Normalization of Deviance, The

North Atlantic High Level Airspace (NAT-HLA)

Northwest Airlines 255

NOTAMS (Are Messed Up)

Note-Taking

Numbers Don't Lie?

O

Oceanic Airspace

Oceanic Contingencies

Oceanic Departure

Oceanic En Route

Oceanic Arrival

Oceanic Loss of Long Range Navigation

Oceanic Loss of RVSM Capability

Oceanic Weather Deviation

One Pagers (Notes)

Online Weather

Operating Flight Strength

Oxygen

P

Pakistan International Airlines 740

Pan Am 001

Pan Am 115

Pan Am 212

Pan Am 217

Pan Am 292

Pan Am 759

Pan Am 799

Pan Am 806

Pan Am 812

Pan Am 816

Pan Am 6005

Panic

PC-12 N128CM

PC-12 N950KA

Peer Review

Performance Based Navigation (PBN)

Personal Electronic Devices (PEDs)

Physiology

Psychology

Pinnacle Airlines 3701

Point of Safe Return (PSR)

Pointing and Calling

Post Position Plot

Pre-Briefs and Post-Briefs

Precision Area Navigation (P-RNAV)

Precision Approach Radar (PAR)

Preparing for recurrent

Problem Solving, Solution First

Procedure Turn Hold in Lieu

Professionalism and Safety

Properties of the Atmosphere

PSA Airlines 2495

Q

Qantas 72

Quarantine Checklist

R

Radar

Range Performance

Rapid Depressurization

RC-135 61-2664

Reading Minds

Record Setting Intentional Noncompliance

Redefining the Salary Bar

Reduced Thrust

Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM)

Required Navigation Performance

Required Navigation Performance-1 (RNP-1)

Required Navigation Performance-4 (RNP-4)

Required Navigation Performance-10 (RNP-10)

RNAV(GNSS) Example

RNAV(GPS)

RNAV-1 and RNAV-2

RNAV vs RNP

RNAV vs RNP Refresher

Rule #1 — "Attitude Determines Altitude"

Rule #2 — "Bloom Where You Are Planted"

Rule #3 — "A Practiced Calm Will Serve You Well"

Rule #4 — "Deal With It"

Rule #5 — "Embrace Change"

Rule #6 — "Not Every Battle is Worth Fighting"

Rule #7 — "Gravity Always Wins"

Rule #8 — "Happiness Takes Effort"

Rule #9 — "If Your Boss Demands Loyalty, Give Your Boss Integrity"

Rule #10 — "It's the Journey, Not the Destination"

Rule #11 — "You Don't Know What You Don't Know"

Rule #12 — "A Man's Got to Know His Limitations"

Rule #13 — "There Is Only So Much You Can Do"

Rule #14 — "No Plan Survives the Enemy"

Rule #15 — "Optimism Takes Work and is Rewarded"

Rule #16 — "Perfect is the Enemy of Good"

Rule #17 — "Quote Others"

Rule #18 — "Risk is Necessary"

Rule #19 — "To Serve, One Must be of Service"

Rule #20 — "Trust, But Verify"

Rule #21 — "Sometimes Thoughts are Best Unspoken"

Rule #22 — "The Angle of the View Determines the View Itself"

Rule #23 — "When You Don't Know What to do, do the Work in Front of You"

Rule #24 — "Lead by Conspicuous Example"

Rule #25 — "Don't Worry About the Things You Cannot Control"

Rule #26 — "Learn Early, Start With Zero and Add From There"

Rules

Rules of Thumb

Runway Condition Codes

Runway Data

Runway Incursions / Excursions

Runway in Sight!

Runway Friction

S

SA Airlink 8911

Scandinavian Airlines System 751

Sabreliner N442RM & Cessna N1285U

SAFA Alternate Fuel

SAFA TCAS

Safety Officer 101

Settled Science

Singapore Airlines 327

Single Pilot Safety Checklist

Site map

Sitting Duck (Under)

Situational Awareness

Slow Onset Hypoxia

Snow Departure

Socata TBM 700N C-FBKK

Soldiering

Sophistry

South African Airways 295

Southern Border Overflight Exemption (SBOE)

Southwest Airlines 1248

Southwest Airlines 1455

Spatial Disorientation

Spins

Stabilized Approach

Stability and Control

Stall Recovery

Standard Atmosphere

Standard Operating Procedures

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 0: The Preliminaries

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 1: Company Organization

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 2: Safety Management System

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 3: Admnistration and Scheduling

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 4: Op. Control and Flight Planning

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 5: Standard Operating Procedures

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 6: Emergency Procedures & Equipment

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 7: Training

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 8: Aircraft Maintenance

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 9: Security Procedures

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 10: Dangerous Goods

Standard Operating Procedures Chapter 11: Callouts

Standing Up a New Flight Department

Startle Response

Sterile Cockpit

Steven Foltz's Gulfstream G450 / G550 Expanded Notes

Stick and Rudder in the Age of Ones and Zeroes

Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure (SLOP)

Study Methods

Sukhoi RRJ-95B

Surviving a Bureaucracy

Swissair 111

Sword Falling, The Art of

T

Takeoff and Landing Data "Sense"

Takeoff Climb Gradient

Takeoff Considerations

Taxi Navigation

Taxi Technique

Technology in Training

Technophobe

Ten Commandments of Aviation

Teterboro Airport, NJ

Teterboro Circling Conundrum

That Looks About Right (TLAR)

The Art of Saying the Word "No"

The Human-to-Engine Interface

The Big Sky Theory

The Brothers Bellum

The Gordian Knot

The Great Escape (Drift Down)

The Need for Speed

There I was . . .

Thermodynamics for Pilots

Threat Error Management

Three-phase Electrical Power

Three Fundamentals For When Things Go Wrong

Three Steps to Stabilized Approaches

Threshold Crossing vs. Screen Heights

Thrust

Thrust vs. Power

"Too Much Airplane"

Transasia 235

Trans International Airlines 863

Transition Altitude / Transition Level

Translate Written German

Trip Planning

Trigonometry for Pilots

Tropopause

Troubleshooting With a Camera

Trust, Verify, Adjust, Escape

(Try not to) Crash Course on 5G

Turbine Engines

Turbulence

Turkish Airlines 1951

TWA 2 & UAL 718

TWA 514

TWA 841

Twenty-Five Questions

Turn Performance

U

Unchecked Ego in the Cockpit

Unfamiliar Airports

United Airlines 173

United Airlines 232

United Airlines 1722

United Express 6291

United Parcel Service 6

United Parcel Service 1354

Unusual Attitudes Recovery

Unwritten Ground Rules

US versus ICAO

USAF to Corporate Pilot Primer

UTC Time Check

US Air 1016

US Air 1702

US Air 5050

V

V1

V2

VA

VMC

VMO

VMCG

VRA

VREF

VSR

VX

VY

Valujet 592

Varig 820

Vertical Navigation (VNAV)

VHF Omni-Directional Range

Vickers Vimy G-EAAV (etal)

Videos

Virgin Australia VH-VUE

Visa Waiver Program

Visual Approach

Volcanic Ash

W

Wake Turbulence

Water Injection

Waypoint Notation

We Can Do That!

Weather

Weight and Balance

Wet Footprint

WGS-84

What's a Watt?

When Pilots Become Passengers

When Tower Asks You to Call

Windshear

Wing Tip Vortices

Wet or Contaminated Runway

X

Y

Z

0 to 9

60 to 1, Engineer to Pilot Translation

1794 - "Bernoulli: The Man Who Invented Lift"

1930 - "A Message to Copilots"

1974 - "Day One"

1974 - "The Harmon Rule of Error"

1976 - "Lock and Load"

1977 - "Caffeinated"

1979 - "Air Mass"

1979 - "ICE-T"

1979 - "Single Spin Recovery"

1979 - "Crosswinds"

1979 - "Course Intercepts"

1979 - "Fix-to-fix"

1979 - "Angle of Attack"

1979 - "Final Turn"

1979 - "Landing Speed"

1979 - "Duck Soup"

1980 - "Climb Gradient"

1980 - "Penetrations"

1980 - "It's Magic"

1980 - "Under Duress"

1980 - "KC-135A TOLD"

1981 - "No Time To Nap"

1981 - "Stupid Pilot Tricks"

1982 - "Vintage Gallo"

1982 - "Top of Descent"

1982 - "Burner Can"

1982 - "Fuel Leak"

1982 - "Seriousness"

1983 - "Visual Descent Point"

1983 - "Tutti Fruitti"

1984 = "Losing Pressure, Rapidly"

1984 - "You Can't Go Unless You've Been"

1984 - "Vee One (Again)"

1985 - "Danger Dave"

1985 - "60-to-1"

1985 - "Fat Boy"

1986 - "Holding Pattern Teardrop Angle"

1986 - "Traffic Pattern Geometry"

1986 - "Maximum Range"

1986 - "Wrong Airport"

1987 - "You Can Always Tell an Engineer . . ."

1990 - "Deck Angle"

1990 - "A Bigger Screw Up . . ."

1990 - "Discipline"

1990 - "I've Never Been So Scared"

1991 - "Just Joking"

1992 - "That Looks About Right (TLAR)"

1992 - "Block Times"

1992 - "Smoothness"

1992 - "There is no Race"

1993 - "Meaconing"

1993 - "Fuji San"

1993 - "Experto Crede"

1993 - "Cold War"

1994 - "The Non-Instrument Napkin"

1994 - "Survival Driving in Italy"

1995 - "Shot At"

1996 - "Surviving a Bureaucracy"

2000 - "I've Never Been So Scared"

2001 - "The Worst Pilot"

2001 - "Another Shot"

2004 - "Medical Hobby Shop"

2005 - "Parlezvous Aeronautic"

2006 - "Negative Ways (Waves)"

2007 - "Photoshop"

2008 - "On Safari in Botswana"

2008 - "Adventures in De-icing"

2008 - "Futebol in Rio"

2009 - "Drift Up"

2009 - "Stan Evil"

2010 - "Milo"

2010 - "Todd Silver"

2011 - "April Snow"

2012 - "Course Corrections"

2015 - "Old Man"

2017 - "Medevac"

2017 - "Vacation"

2018 - "Check Ride Nerves"

2018 - "Do Unto Yourself"

2018 - "More Stupid Pilot Tricks"

2019 - "Fake News"

2019 - "Honorable Mention"

2019 - "Introducing the New Jet"

2019 - "John Davey"

2019 - "Lonely at the Top"

2019 - "First Recurrents in New Jets"

2020 - "Melancholy"

2020 - "Oddball CAS"

2020 - "Short Stories on Soft Pavement"

2023 - "M1 Pencil"

2023 - "Time Hack"

Win by Losing

2

Aviate

Aircraft

Aircraft Acquisition Checklist

Gulfstreams GV, G450, G500, G550, G600, G650

Steven Foltz's Gulfstream G450 / G550 Expanded Notes

Airports

ACN versus PCN

Airport Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) Codes

Airport Selection

Aspen Airport, CO

Braking Action

Contaminated Runways

Dekalb-Peachtree Airport, Atlanta, GA

Grooved Runways

Mountainous Area Airports

Runway Data

Runway Condition Codes

Runway Friction

Teterboro Airport, NJ

Teterboro Circling Conundrum

Unfamiliar Airports

Wet or Contaminated Runway

Airspace

Airspace Classification

Basic Area Navigation (B-RNAV)

Class I versus Class II Airspace

Class B Airspace Woes

Future Air Navigation System (FANS)

North Atlantic High Level Airspace (NAT-HLA)

Oceanic Airspace

Precision Area Navigation (P-RNAV)

Performance Based Navigation (PBN)

Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM)

Required Navigation Performance

Required Navigation Performance-1 (RNP-1)

Required Navigation Performance-4 (RNP-4)

Required Navigation Performance-10 (RNP-10)

RNAV-1 and RNAV-2

RNAV vs RNP

RNAV vs RNP Refresher

Altimetry

Altimeter Settings

Altimetry Theory

Metric Altimetry

Temperature Correction

Transition Altitude / Transition Level

Engineering & math

Engineering

60 to 1, Engineer to Pilot Translation

Airbus Control Laws

Aircraft Tires

Alpha Protection

Amp-Hour

Angle of Attack

Approach Speed Additives

Asymmetrical Thrust

Balance Tabs

Blade Creep

Carbon-Carbon Brakes

Circuit Breakers

Coffin Corner

Cost Index

Defying the Laws of Physics

Drag

(What is) Electricity?

Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR)

False Precision

Fault Tolerance

Frictionless Pulleys

Fuel Capacitance Probes

Fuel Density

Fuel Stratification

Ground Effect

Gyroscopes

Hall Effect Sensors

High Speed Flight

Hydraulic Pump

It Takes Fuel to Carry Fuel

Lift

L/DMAX

Low Speed Flight

MCAS

Mechanics

Operating Flight Strength

Properties of the Atmosphere

Range Performance

Reduced Thrust

Rules of Thumb

Spins

Stability and Control

Stall Recovery

The Need for Speed

Thermodynamics for Pilots

Three-phase Electrical Power

Thrust

Thrust vs. Power

Turbine Engines

Turn Performance

V1

V2

VA

VMC

VMO

VMCG

VRA

VREF

VSR

VX

VY

Water Injection

What's a Watt?

Wing Tip Vortices

CR-3 / CPU-26 Exercises

Math

Flight Math

Infinity + 1

Numbers Don't Lie?

Trigonometry for Pilots

Flight discipline

Checklist Flows

Checklist Imperative

Checklist Philosophy

Limitations Discipline

Professionalism and Safety

Ten Commandments of Aviation

Flight operations

Normals

Approach Lighting System

Approach Speed Additives

Automation Resource Management

Autothrottle Landing

Bad Data

(OPT for better) Briefings

Cabin Cleaning

callouts

Clearance Readback

Continuous Descent Final Approach (CDFA)

Controllability Check

Control Performance Technique

Crosswind Landing

Currency and Proficiency

Departure Obstacle Avoidance

Descent

Dual Qual

Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS)

Expect Departure Clearance Time (EDCT)

Flight Plan

Fuel Minimums

Functional Check Flights

Hazardous Materials (HazMat)

Head Up Display (HUD), Using a

Immediate Action!

Landing

Landing Flare

Left Seat (For the First Time)

Letters of Authorization (LOAs)

Line Operation Observation

Maximizing Privacy in Spite of ADS-B

Minimum Equipment Lists (MELs)

Minimum Ground Speed Technique

Minimums

Noise Abatement

NOTAMS (Are Messed Up)

One Pagers (Notes)

Peer Review

Personal Electronic Devices (PEDs)

Pre-Briefs and Post-Briefs

Runway in Sight!

Single Pilot Safety Checklist

Sitting Duck (Under)

Stabilized Approach

Stall Recovery

Standing Up a New Flight Department

Sterile Cockpit

Stick and Rudder in the Age of Ones and Zeroes

Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure (SLOP)

Takeoff and Landing Data "Sense"

Takeoff Climb Gradient

Takeoff Considerations

Technology in Training

That Looks About Right (TLAR)

The Big Sky Theory

The Human-to-Engine Interface

Threat Error Management

Threshold Crossing vs. Screen Heights

Trust, Verify, Adjust, Escape

Vertical Navigation (VNAV)

Visual Approach

Weight and Balance

Wet Footprint

Abnormals

Abort Authority

Absolute Authority

Balked Landing

Bomb Threat

Cabin Fires

Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)

Ctrl-Alt-Del

Declaring an emergency

Ditching

Divert!

Fire

Fuel Leak Inflight

Laser Exposure

Rapid Depressurization

Runway Excursions

The Great Escape (Drift Down)

Three Fundamentals For When Things Go Wrong

Three Steps to Stabilized Approaches

Trip Planning

Troubleshooting With a Camera

Unusual Attitudes Recovery

Wake Turbulence

When Tower Asks You to Call

Ground operations

Fueling

Ground Evacuation

Hot Brakes and Wheel Fires

Maintenance Malpractice

Pointing and Calling

Taxi Navigation

Taxi Technique

Instrument procedures

Alternate IAP Requirements

Approach Categories

Approach Impossible

Approach Surveillance Radar

Approach VVI

Arcs

Back Course Localizer

Circling Approach

Circling Approach Area

(U.S.) Circling Approach Minimums Are Too Low!

Circling Revisited

Circling: Good Riddance

Course Reversal

Holding

Instrument Landing System (ILS)

Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV)

Non-Directional Beacon (NDB) Approaches

Precision Approach Radar (PAR)

Procedure Turn Hold in Lieu

RNAV(GNSS) Example

RNAV(GPS)

Sitting Duck (Under)

WGS-84

International operations

International Operations Manual

Oceanic Departure

Oceanic En Route

Oceanic Arrival

Abnormal Procedures

Oceanic Contingencies

Oceanic Loss of Long Range Navigation

Oceanic Loss of RVSM Capability

Oceanic Weather Deviation

Volcanic Ash

Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft (SAFA)

EU Ramp Inspection Program (RIP)

EU RIP Expanded Checklist

SAFA Alternate Fuel

SAFA TCAS

Appendices

Agriculture Import

Approach Ban

ARINC 424 Shorthand

Babel Fish (Language Translators)

Blue Spruce Routes

Cabotage

Call Signs

Canada eTA

Canpass

Conditional Clearance

Course Reversals

Customs / Immigration / Quarantine (CIQ)

Cyber Security

Disinsection

Electronic Advanced Passenger Information System (eAPIS)

Equal Time Points (ETPs)

EU Entry/Exit

Extended Diversion Time Operations (EDTO/ETOPS)

Gross Navigation Errors

High Latitude Operations

Journey Log Book

Mach Number Technique

Navigation Accuracy Check

Point of Safe Return (PSR)

Post Position Plot

Southern Border Overflight Exemption (SBOE)

Translate Written German

US versus ICAO

UTC Time Check

Visa Waiver Program

Waypoint Notation

Standard Operating Procedures

Chapter 0: The Preliminaries

Chapter 1: Company Organization

Chapter 2: Safety Management System

Chapter 3: Admnistration and Scheduling

Chapter 4: Op. Control and Flight Planning

Chapter 5: Standard Operating Procedures

Chapter 6: Emergency Procedures & Equipment

Chapter 7: Training

Chapter 8: Aircraft Maintenance

Chapter 9: Security Procedures

Chapter 10: Dangerous Goods

Chapter 11: Callouts

Radar
Weather

Automated Weather

Arctic Weather

Cold Weather Operations

Cold Weather Refresher

Convective Weather

Forecast Products

Hot Towers

Icing

Lightning

Online Weather

Snow Departure

Standard Atmosphere

Tropopause

Turbulence

Windshear


5

Relate

Crew Resource Management (CRM)
Decision Making
Diversions (movies and books)

Favorite Books

Favorite Movies

Leadership

Leadership course

Leadership 101

Leadership Styles

Leadership Secrets

Leadership Applied

Other leadership topics

First Officer to Captain Upgrade Training

Flight Department Succession Plan

Flight Lessons 4: Leadership and Command

Followership

How to Chief Pilot

Mentoring Leadership

Mentoring Through Hiring

Redefining the Salary Bar

Safety Officer 101

Soldiering

Surviving a Bureaucracy

Sword Falling, The Art of

Physiology

Desynchronosis

Fatigue

Hypoxia

Oxygen

Slow Onset Hypoxia

Spatial Disorientation

Psychology

Amateur Test Pilot

Arguing By Listening

Bad Ideas

Because We've Always Done it This Way

Better: Being a Better Student

Better: Being a Better Pilot

Better: Being a Better Crewmember

Better: Being a Better Captain

Better: Being Better

Careless and Reckless

Compartmentalization and a Focus on Flight

Compartmentalization and Family

Compartmentalization and Social Pressures

Compartmentalization and Work

Compartmentalization and Happiness

Complacency

Criticism

Dealing With Change

Dealing With Experts

Dodging the Golden BB

Good Looking Corpse

Gray Areas

Inert Knowledge

Lab Rat

Learning From Experience You Don't Have

Memorization Tasks

Memory Palace

Murphy

New Pilot Strategy (The boss's perspective)

New Pilot Strategy (The pilot's perspective)

Normalization of Deviance, The

Note-Taking

Panic

Preparing for recurrent

Problem Solving, Solution First

Quarantine Checklist

Reading Minds

Record Setting Intentional Noncompliance

Settled Science

Situational Awareness

Sophistry

Startle Response

Study Methods

Technophobe

The Art of Saying the Word "No"

The Gordian Knot

There I was . . .

"Too Much Airplane"

Unchecked Ego in the Cockpit

Unwritten Ground Rules

We Can Do That!

When Pilots Become Passengers

Rules

Rule #1 — "Attitude Determines Altitude"

Rule #2 — "Bloom Where You Are Planted"

Rule #3 — "A Practiced Calm Will Serve You Well"

Rule #4 — "Deal With It"

Rule #5 — "Embrace Change"

Rule #6 — "Not Every Battle is Worth Fighting"

Rule #7 — "Gravity Always Wins"

Rule #8 — "Happiness Takes Effort"

Rule #9 — "If Your Boss Demands Loyalty, Give Your Boss Integrity"

Rule #10 — "It's the Journey, Not the Destination"

Rule #11 — "You Don't Know What You Don't Know"

Rule #12 — "A Man's Got to Know His Limitations"

Rule #13 — "There Is Only So Much You Can Do"

Rule #14 — "No Plan Survives the Enemy"

Rule #15 — "Optimism Takes Work and is Rewarded"

Rule #16 — "Perfect is the Enemy of Good"

Rule #17 — "Quote Others"

Rule #18 — "Risk is Necessary"

Rule #19 — "To Serve, One Must be of Service"

Rule #20 — "Trust, But Verify"

Rule #21 — "Sometimes Thoughts are Best Unspoken"

Rule #22 — "The Angle of the View Determines the View Itself"

Rule #23 — "When You Don't Know What to do, do the Work in Front of You"

Rule #24 — "Lead by Conspicuous Example"

Rule #25 — "Don't Worry About the Things You Cannot Control"

Rule #26 — "Learn Early, Start With Zero and Add From There"


6

Pontificate

About (Code 7700 & me)
Accident Investigation
Accident Rates
Books (mine)

The Brothers Bellum

International Operations

Flight Lesson 1 — Basic Flight

Flight Lesson 2 — Advanced Flight

Flight Lesson 3 — Experience

Flight Lesson 4 — Leadership

Flight Lesson 5 — People

Career Notes

A Professional Pilot's "Plan B"

Age 60 / Age 65

An Open Letter To Recurrent Simulator Instructors

Attracting the Next Generation

Aviation Gurus

Career Advice

Goals, Plans, Focus

Hiring and Keeping Business Aviation Professionals

Job, Career, or Calling?

USAF to Corporate Pilot Primer

Case studies

Aeromexico 498 & Piper N489F

Aeromexico 945

Aeroperú 603

Aérospatiale SN-601 Corvette N600RA

Air Algerie 73

Air Blue 202

Air Canada 143

Air Canada 624

Air Canada 646

Air Canada 759

Air Canada 797

Air Cargo Carriers 1260

Air China 129

Air Florida 90

Air France 296

Air France 447

Air Illinois 710

Air Midwest 5481

Air Transat 236

Airborne Express N827AX

Airbus A320 D-AXLA

Airhub 4311

Alaska Airlines 261

Allegheny Airlines 453

American Airlines 191

American Airlines 587

American Airlines 965

American Airlines 1420

American Airlines 1572

American International Airways 808

Ameristar 9363

Antoinette IV & Farman III

Air Transport International 102

Asiana Airlines 214

Asiana Airlines 733

Atlas Air 3591

Avianca 52

BD-700 C-GXPR

Beechcraft King Air VH-SKC

Beechjet 400A XA-MEX

Boeing 737 G-EZJK

Boeing Model 299

British Airways 9

British Airways 38

British Airways 5390

British Midland Airways 092

C-141 65-9405 & Luftwaffe 74

Cavok 7087

Cessna 421 N48DL

Cessna 550 N6763L

Cessna 680 N8JR

Cessna CJ2+ N380CR

Challenger 600 N370V

Challenger 604 C-FTBZ

Challenger 604 N90AG

China Airlines 006

China Airlines 611

Colgan Air 3407

Colgan Air 9446

Comair 5191

Compagnie des Grands & Daimler Hire Limited

Continental Airlines 1404

Corporate Airlines 5966

Crossair 3597

Delta Air Lines 191

Delta Air Lines 9570

DHL 611 & Bashkirskie Avialinii 2937

Eastern Air lines 14

Eastern Air lines 66

Eastern Air Lines 401

EC-135N 61-0328

Elal 1862

EMB-135BJ N600XL & GOL 19078

Embraer EMB-550 Legacy 500 RA-02788

Emirates 521

Eurocopter AS350-B2 N37SH

Executive Airlines N16EJ

Falcon 2000 CS-DFE

Federal Express 647

Federal Express 1478

Flash Airlines 604

Flying Tiger Line 45

Flying Tiger Line 66

Galaxy Airlines 201

Germanwings 4U9525

Gulfstream G550 N535GA

Gulfstream G650 N652GD

Gulfstream GIII N85VT

Gulfstream GIII N303GA

Gulfstream GIII VP-BLN

Gulfstream GIV G-GMAC

Gulfstream GIV N2SA

Gulfstream GIV N23AC

Gulfstream GIV N121JM

Gulfstream GIV N450KK

Gulfstream GIV N823GA

Gulfstream GV N777TY

Handley Page O/400 G-EAKE

Hawker Siddeley HS-125 N831LC

Helios Airways 522

IAI 1124 VH-AJP

Japan Air Lines 123

Japan Air Lines 8054

Kalita 207

KC-135A 59-1443

KLM 867

Korean Air 221

Korean Air 769

Korean Air 801

Korean Air 803

Korean Air 852

Korean Air 2033

Korean Air 6316

Korean Air 8509

Korean Air Lines 007

Korean Air Lines 015

Korean Air Lines 084

Korean Air Lines 642

Korean Air Lines 902

Learjet N30DK

Learjet N47BA

Learjet N279AJ

Learjet N452DA

Learjet N999LJ

Lion Air 904

Lufthansa Papa Whiskey

Malaysia Airlines MH17

Martin 404, N464M

National Airlines 27

Northwest Airlines 255

Pakistan International Airlines 740

Pan Am 001

Pan Am 115

Pan Am 212

Pan Am 217

Pan Am 292

Pan Am 759

Pan Am 799

Pan Am 806

Pan Am 812

Pan Am 816

Pan Am 6005

PC-12 N128CM

PC-12 N950KA

Pinnacle Airlines 3701

PSA Airlines 2495

Qantas 72

RC-135 61-2664

SA Airlink 8911

Sabreliner N442RM & Cessna N1285U

Scandinavian Airlines System 751

Singapore Airlines 327

Socata TBM 700N C-FBKK

South African Airways 295

Southern Airways 242

Southern Airways 932

Southwest Airlines 1248

Southwest Airlines 1455

Sukhoi RRJ-95B

Swissair 111

Transasia 235

Trans International Airlines 863

Turkish Airlines 1951

TWA 2 & UAL 718

TWA 514

TWA 841

United Airlines 173

United Airlines 232

United Airlines 1722

United Express 6291

United Parcel Service 6

United Parcel Service 1354

US Air 1016

US Air 1702

US Air 5050

Valujet 592

Varig 820

Vickers Vimy G-EAAV (etal)

Virgin Australia VH-VUE

Magazine articles
More stories

1794 - "Bernoulli: The Man Who Invented Lift"

1930 - "A Message to Copilots"

1974 - "Day One"

1974 - "The Harmon Rule of Error"

1976 - "Lock and Load"

1977 - "Caffeinated"

1979 - "Air Mass"

1979 - "ICE-T"

1979 - "Single Spin Recovery"

1979 - "Crosswinds"

1979 - "Course Intercepts"

1979 - "Fix-to-fix"

1979 - "Angle of Attack"

1979 - "Final Turn"

1979 - "Landing Speed"

1979 - "Duck Soup"

1980 - "Climb Gradient"

1980 - "Penetrations"

1980 - "It's Magic"

1980 - "Under Duress"

1980 - "KC-135A TOLD"

1981 - "No Time To Nap"

1981 - "Stupid Pilot Tricks"

1982 - "Vintage Gallo"

1982 - "Top of Descent"

1982 - "Burner Can"

1982 - "Fuel Leak"

1982 - "Seriousness"

1983 - "Visual Descent Point"

1983 - "Tutti Fruitti"

1984 = "Losing Pressure, Rapidly"

1984 - "You Can't Go Unless You've Been"

1984 - "Vee One (Again)"

1985 - "Danger Dave"

1985 - "60-to-1"

1985 - "Fat Boy"

1986 - "Holding Pattern Teardrop Angle"

1986 - "Traffic Pattern Geometry"

1986 - "Maximum Range"

1986 - "Wrong Airport"

1987 - "You Can Always Tell an Engineer . . ."

1990 - "Deck Angle"

1990 - "A Bigger Screw Up . . ."

1990 - "Discipline"

1990 - "I've Never Been So Scared"

1991 - "Just Joking"

1992 - "That Looks About Right (TLAR)"

1992 - "Block Times"

1992 - "Smoothness"

1993 - "Meaconing"

1993 - "Fuji San"

1993 - "Experto Crede"

1993 - "Cold War"

1994 - "The Non-Instrument Napkin"

1994 - "Survival Driving in Italy"

1995 - "Shot At"

1996 - "Surviving a Bureaucracy"

2000 - "I've Never Been So Scared"

2001 - "The Worst Pilot"

2001 - "Another Shot"

2004 - "Medical Hobby Shop"

2005 - "Parlezvous Aeronautic"

2006 - "Negative Ways (Waves)"

2007 - "Photoshop"

2008 - "On Safari in Botswana"

2008 - "Adventures in De-icing"

2008 - "Futebol in Rio"

2009 - "Drift Up"

2009 - "Stan Evil"

2010 - "Milo"

2010 - "Todd Silver"

2011 - "April Snow"

2012 - "Course Corrections"

2015 - "Old Man"

2017 - "Medevac"

2017 - "Vacation"

2018 - "Check Ride Nerves"

2018 - "Do Unto Yourself"

2018 - "More Stupid Pilot Tricks"

2019 - "Fake News"

2019 - "Honorable Mention"

2019 - "Introducing the New Jet"

2019 - "John Davey"

2019 - "Lonely at the Top"

2019 - "First Recurrents in New Jets"

2020 - "Melancholy"

2020 - "Oddball CAS"

2020 - "Short Stories on Soft Pavement"

2023 - "M1 Pencil"

2023 - "Time Hack"

Win by Losing

Site map
Videos