Are you coming up on your Flight Review?  For rated pilots, it is something you will need to do every 24 months.  A traditional flight review in gliders is conducted with a flight instructor and requires one hour of ground school and at least 3 flights in a glider with an instructor.  However, did you […]

Standardization. That is a term used in aviation which in general terms means “to bring into conformity with a standard especially in order to assure consistency and regularity.”  Checklists need to be read and responded to with the same consistency and regularity. For the student, eventually, the checklist will become second nature. However, their is […]

As pilots, we use checklists for everything, or at least we should be.  For private ship owners their are assembly and disassembly checklists, critical assembly checklists, and we all use a positive control checklist, preflight, before takeoff and landing checklist.  Some of these checklists we learn and commit them to memory.  Others, we read aloud […]