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For a long time, I (naively) assumed that becoming a better pilot worked something like this: 🔸 Learn from my mistakes🔸 Absorb the wisdom from experienced pilots🔸 Make decisions, log the hours, do it for years ➡️ And then eventually, I’ll have more and better answers to things! Right? Well […]
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In this day and age of aviation, sudden structural failures are less common than they used to be, especially for fixed wing aircraft. So when structural failures do happen, like this engine separation that UPS flight 2976 experienced on 4 November 2025, they hit very hard 💥 We’re going to […]
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The first time I truly understood what it meant to have mental resilience wasn’t in a classroom, it was during my helicopter instrument rating. A good friend and I were going through the course together. We were down to our last pennies. There was no budget for mistakes, no room […]
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Why do helicopters crash? 💥 Every year, EASA releases a great document that helps to answer this question, and shows what’s catching pilots out, what’s killing crew, breaking aircraft, and coming back to screw up flight safety across Europe 🇪🇺 It’s a goldmine of information, so we’re going to show […]
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If something goes wrong now… do I turn back, or keep going? 👀 That’s where Point of No Return (PNR) and Point of Equal Time (PET) come in. Two bits of “ATPL theory” that suddenly become very real when the weather turns, the fuel burns faster than planned, or you […]
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