Best Glide Speed in a PA46

Let’s say you are climbing in your PA46. What airspeed will you use to climb? I bet the practical answer is something other than Vy (best rate of climb) speed. In the turbine versions of the PA46 Vy will gain the most altitude for a given amount of time, but the deck angle is uncomfortably…

Virtuoso

I have to admit…rarely do I reinvent the wheel when it comes to aviation training. My clients would testify that I am rather boring, teaching the same ole stuff that has been taught for years. I teach the basics first, and I don’t teach the “higher level stuff” until the pilot is good at the…

Texting while taxiing…

Need I even print a word?  Is there anything that needs to be added to make this any clearer?  Bottom line…texting while taxiing can cost you dearly. And, it’s not just texting.  During recurrent training, one of my pet peeves is to see pilots fumbling with the avionics while taxiing.  I’m going to bet that…

Go-Around in a PA46…

Of all the aviation maneuvers I see during Refresher Training, the one that is butchered the most is the Go-Around (or Missed Approach).  This is disappointing because the Go-Around is so critical.  Everything changes at the Go-Around…the airplane goes from dirty to clean, low-power to high-power, descent to climb, and (often) flight with the autopilot…

On runway centerline?

I’ve had the experience of flying in some really wide cockpits, meaning that the pilot and copilot’s seats were far from each other laterally, the most notable example for me is the UH-60 Blackhawk.  When transitioning into the Blackhawk, the perspective provided when flying from the left seat as compared to the right seat is…