Going Direct: Kobe Bryant Crash Fallout. Three Things The Public Still Doesn’t Get
The helicopter accident that killed the global sports superstar, his daughter and seven others was the result of forces beyond …
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Going Direct: Uh Oh. Congress Is Trying To Improve Flight Training
The ignorance and arrogance runs deep in the House Transportation Committee, that much is certain …
Going Direct: The One Piece Of Evidence That Sticks Out From Kobe Bryant Crash Report
The NSTB preliminary report is out, and investigators seem to have missed the significance of one big clue …
Going Direct: NTSB Preliminary Report On Kobe Bryant Crash. Why The Big Surprise Is No Surprise At All To Pilots
For many pilots, the mountains of data confirmed an early belief …
Going Direct: Electric Planes Equals User Fees
The uncomfortable fact of life as aviation flips the switch to a new future …
Going Direct: The Kobe Bryant Crash, Scud Running And How I Almost Made The Same Mistake
What you don’t understand about scud running, or haven’t sufficiently grasped, is plenty enough to kill you if …
Going Direct: Kobe Bryant Crash Investigation: It’s About The Airmanship, Stupid
Armchair investigators in three-piece suits are bloviating about charter certificates as an area of critical focus. They need to …
Going Direct: Why Boeing’s 737 Max Catastrophe Paints A Picture Of A Deeply Troubled Company
With a recent announcement of yet another new timetable for its controversial jet, Boeing has been all over the news …
Going Direct: The Secrets Behind Toyota’s Half-Billion Dollar eVTOL Urban Air Multicopter
The company’s partnership on the e-VTOL called Joby is interesting on several levels. Some of them are historic …
Going Direct: Garmin GI 275 And Its Misunderstood Magic
What some pilots don’t get about this flight instrument that has just changed the fleet, with 13 other historic …
