The following video clip is of a landing into a French airfield (LFBH) under “special VFR” Whether or not this was legal is left to the observer …. personally I wouldn’t want to attempt this without a full IR (or at least an IMC within UK airspace). Sadly, this is the sort of weather we [...]
Max Trescott posts about a flight into inadvertent IMC, and why it is so important to know what you’re doing, to plan your flight, and to know your MSA! Max Trescott’s Blog Share and Enjoy:
Another YouTube star is born. This time, it’s a runway overshoot on St. Barthélemy’s notoriously short runway 10/28. Several readers drew our attention to this video, and we’ve done an analysis on what went wrong. St. Bart’s is short, all right, but really not that different from a hundred other runways cluttered up with trees, [...]
Having attended his Brother’s funeral with his family, Doug White was heading home as a passenger in a King Air 200. The pilot running through his after takeoff checklists turns to his passenger “Gonna get a little bumpy as we climb through this cloud layer,” Cabuk warned. He began a routine call to air traffic controllers [...]