FAA Basic Med has Finally Arrived!

The FAA has published the BasicMed rules, however, the regulations do not go into effect until May 1, 2017. (This is to allow

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Understanding Pilot Fatigue

Be mindful of fatigue; this slow insidious dread that has caused many a pilot to lose their way.

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Water; Essential to Life (*And* Flight!)

by: Parvez Dara; Physician, ATP, MCFI, CFII, AGI, MEI. Gold Seal (and SAFE board treasurer) Why do you need to carry a bottle

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The Myth of Multi-Tasking: Micro, Macro, Meta

OK, let’s be honest, a human really cannot multi-task (simultaneously perform two tasks demanding intense concentration).

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Stress and Pilot Performance: Part 2

by Sherry Knight Rossiter Stress hormones are catabolic in nature; in other words, they break the body down. In the last

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Savvy CFI: “Baked In” Human Pilot Problems!

We humans contain “baked-in” reactions driven by our land-based biology that are extremely dangerous in flight.

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HYPOXIA IN FLIGHT

Master CFI Parvez Dara, MD FACP, ATP, MCFI As humans we depend on energy. Our energy is created in little biological machinery

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Stress, and Pilot Performance: Part 1

by Sherry Knight Rossiter      Imagine that you are on a solo cross-country flight in a single-engine airplane. According

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