A Flight Instructor's Journal

Holding patterns based on distance rather than timed legs are becoming increasingly common, particularly for GPS approaches. Whether it is ...

In Right Airport, Wrong Approach , I described a short instrument training flight from Anoka (KANE) to New Richmond (KRNH) to Osceola (KOEO)...

I went on a short training flight today with an instrument student in his C182, equipped with both a Garmin 430 and an MX20. My plan was to...

I was working with another CFI this week who wanted more practice on using the Garmin 430. The sim provides an ideal venue for doing this, ...

Every once in a while in this instructing business, you have what can only be described as a “eureka” moment. An insight occurs to you that...

The chandelle is one of the maneuvers in the single-engine commercial flight test. It is a maximum performance 180 ° climbing turn and w...

Over the Christmas holidays, one of my friends took a video of the sim in operation and made a 30-second clip that I put up on the website. ...

I have on many occasions had discussions with flight instructors on issues concerning logging of time. I would like to go over a few of th...

So there you are, trucking along in your trusty bug smasher (or trusty sim), tracking inbound on the 360° radial, when without warning your ...

This avionics troubleshooting guide comes from R.C. Avionics . It is a great compilation of tips and guidance in troubleshooting avionics ...

When it comes to lighting in the sim, it has been something of a Catch 22 situation. To really see the great graphics, the room needs to be...

Recently I flew with a longtime friend who wanted to do some approaches. He explained beforehand that he had been flying strictly VFR for s...

Periodically I check out fellow instructors in J’s plane. J. has a very nice fixed-gear Cessna Cardinal (C177). However a checkout in this...

R. is a sim student who is working on getting his instrument proficiency back. He owns a lovely Piper Lance, and we met a few weeks ago whe...

To many pilots, an HSI ranks high on the list of essential flight instruments, while others find it mystifying. So let’s try to demystify t...

So how does a modern sim like the new Elite arrive at its destination? The answer is in an incredible number of boxes. I had reached an ag...

Welcome to an online journal about the creation and running of Sim Flite Minnesota , a small enterprise devoted to sim and GPS training. ...