by Charlie Gasmire | Oct 3, 2019 | Aviation FAQs
The airlines are a cool place to be. Or at least that’s what they keep telling me. As a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) I’m chasing the same goal as others: the coveted 1,500 hours to get to the airlines. Time and time again I get asked, “how much do flight...
by Charlie Gasmire | Oct 2, 2019 | Aviation FAQs
Anyone who is interested in aviation has noticed that most commercially produced aircraft have a very similar architecture. Although powered flight has been through many extraordinary changes in the past century, many of the basic structural characteristics remain...
by Charlie Gasmire | Sep 23, 2019 | Aviation FAQs
Standard pressure is 1013.25 hectopascals (hPa) which is equivalent to 29.92 inches of mercury (Hg). This setting is equivalent to the atmospheric pressure at mean sea level (MSL). Pressure altitude is primarily used in aircraft-performance calculations and in...
by Charlie Gasmire | Sep 11, 2019 | Aviation FAQs, Pilot Advice
Aviation technology has experienced massive breakthroughs in the last century since the Wright Brothers first flew in Kitty Hawk. Airframe and propulsion technology have progressed manned flight capabilities from flying two feet off the ground for a few hundred feet...
by Charlie Gasmire | Sep 10, 2019 | Aviation FAQs, Pilot Advice
Those of us who have completed any form of flight training will agree that it is one of the most rewarding and challenging tasks we have ever pursued. Those that had no prior experience or had limited knowledge of flying would also agree that it can feel like taking a...
