As a part of our Threat and Error Management series of articles, we supplement our Commercial Pilot Ground School with this article on leadership in aviation. Pilots can sometimes be good leaders, however they also succumb to pressures like any other human beings. We will examine different leadership styles, see what may be appropriate for…
Pilot Supplies to Begin Pilot Training A lot of our new students contact us for assistance because of how overwhelming the pilot training process can be. One of the most common questions stems from which pilot supplies are needed to being training. There are a lot of options out there and it is sometimes hard…
Pilot Logbook Although the task of finding a pilot logbook may seem simple, a properly organized and properly filled out logbook is something that a pilot can take pride in. Many career pilots still keep their very first student pilot logbook from when they were conducting ab-initio training; memories forever engrained in paper. As a…
Pilot Errors A pilot error is an action or decision of the pilot that, if not caught and corrected, could contribute to the occurrence of an accident or incident. Inaction or indecision are also included in the definition. Pilot error does not always imply fault; this particular topic will be further discussed in this section….
Spectrum Airways In this post, we examine a flight school which is situated on the west side of the Greater Toronto Area known as Spectrum Airways. Spectrum Airways is located at the Burlington Executive Airfield and is a flight school in Ontario Canada. The flight school started as, and still continues to operate as a family run…
Durham Flight Centre Durham Flight Centre (“DFC”) is a Transport Canada registered Flight Training Unit, flight centre, and a private career college under the Ontario Private Career College Act, 2005. Located at the Enterprise Airlines hangar at the Oshawa Executive Airport, Durham Flight Centre has been training aspiring pilots, renting aircraft and offering sightseeing flights…
The Canadian Flight Supplement, Canada Flight Supplement, or CFS for short, is the proverbial phonebook for all aerodromes and airport in Canada. The publication contains the following sections: General: Tables, legends and associated information pertinent to interpretation of the supplement. Aerodrome Directory: Data and sketches for Canadian aerodromes and heliports and selected aerodromes in the North Atlantic….
Pilot decision making is the generation of an alternative course of action based on available information, knowledge, prior experience, expectation, context, goals, etc. and selecting one preferred option. It is also described as thinking, problem solving and judgement. In this article, we will provide a small sneak peak at what we offer in our Private…
Aviation Weather Aviation weather can be fairly hard to understand sometimes. The application of theoretical meteorology to the practical world of aviation takes an immense amount of skill. Luckily, our online ground school courses were created with the help of experienced airline Captain and certified meteorologist Doug Morris. However, not all ground schools are lucky…
Level Flight and Straight Flight This blog article on level flight and straight flight is being created out of the necessity to clear a few things up for pilots in engaged in pilot training or online ground school. Let’s get started. What is straight and level flight? The first thing we tell students in this…
