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Free online weather broadcast geared for pilots

I just stumbled upon Aviation Weather Today – a free and useful online webcast geared for pilots and business aviation (However, the webcast does not want to embed onto our site at the moment!). Its produced by Universal Weather & Aviation’s meteorology department to alert business aviation professionals to weather conditions that might impact air travel in various high-traffic regions around the world and there are individual segments covering Europe, North America, North Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, South America, West Pacific, United Kingdom and the USA (just click on the video and scroll through the different regions). Its definitely useful to watch if you plan to take your own plane up for a spin or if you are planning to fly on a commercial aircraft for a trip somewhere and you are curious as to what weather conditions the pilots will have to deal with.

RAF Cosford flying visit (with video)

My friend Nick and I flew up to RAF Cosford on Friday to visit the excellent RAF museum there. The museum is a must-see for any propellerhead and the RAF were very welcoming and friendly. There’s a bit of paperwork to do and there’s an interesting ‘centreline’ join – down the centreline at 1,200 feet then turn downwind descending to 800 feet – but nothing too daunting. Highly recommended. Nick made a great video of the flight and a few of the highlights from the museum.

Flyabout – movie review

I just watched Flyabout, a movie by Monika Petrillo about her flight around Australia with her father. It is a partly a film about flying but also a film about family relationships and personal discovery. It is inspired by the Aboriginal tradition of a ‘walkabout’ and it has something of that ‘anything may happen’ mood. I enjoyed it very much and recommend it to any pilot.

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Holding pattern entries made easy video

Jason Schappert, the blogger behind the MzeroA.com blog, has recently created and posted this short podcast to help both new and experienced pilots to learn what holding pattern entry to use in various flight situations. As with all of Jason’s previous podcasts, this one is simple and straight to the point and hence, student pilots will find it especially useful.  

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXEjdt6CvF4[/youtube]

A close call with terrain video

Hat tip to Sulako’s blog for finding this amazing video that shows why its important to obey IFR rules like sector altitudes and how not to use your GPS terrain display. The pilot of this aircraft encountered a cloud but continued to valley-crawl while in IMC – which nearly cost more than just a slightly damaged wing from brushing against some bushes. Its amazing that they made it safely home. This definitely a video every student pilot as well as experienced pilot needs to watch!

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