Experienced Instructor Shares Advice For Potential CFI’s

After her recent election to board chair at the National Association of Flight Instructors, Karen Kalishek shared a few moments of reflection with us at Oshkosh. Kalishek had an interesting path to becoming a CFI after discovering her passion. Flight instructing was her 3rd career, after success in banking, as a senior VP, and later the President of her own International Consulting business.

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Virgin Galactic is grounded after a number of inflight issues have become public. The FAA has finally stepped in and grounded Virgin Galactic. This occurred as details about the flight that carried Richard Branson, and others, to a point short of the Karman Line ran into problems that have just recently come to light. A New Yorker story by Nicholas Schmidle was the first to note the hastily rescheduled Unity 22 that carried Branson encountered issues with its attitude and the parameters established for a proper ascent and return to their base. The Gulfstream G700, set its first ever

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If you have a drone then youre going to want to participate in The Third Annual National Drone Safety Awareness Week which will take place on Sept. 13 until the 19th. Moving forward with the FAA continuing to integrate drones into the National Airspace System, one of the most important details will be ensuring drone pilots understand the responsibilities involved with flying safely. Delivery drone company Wing informs the community that they have almost achieved 100,000 customer deliveries. The milestone will coincide with the Alphabet-owned company’s second an

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Simulated Flameout A practice approach by a jet aircraft (normally military) at idle thrust to a runway. The approach may start at a runway (high key) and may continue on a relatively high and wide downwind leg with a continuous turn to final. It terminates in landing or low approach. The purpose of this approach is to simulate a flameout.

“This acquisition is a great success, opening new and broader opportunities for CHC both in existing markets like Australia and the North Sea, and in new areas.  It further cements CHC’s position as one of the world’s leading providers of helicopter transportation to oil and gas, Search and Rescue and renewables customers.” Source: David Balevic, CHC President and Chief Executive Officer, commenting on the completion of its acquisition of Babcock International’s offshore oil and gas aviation business. The acquisition strengthens CHC’s position in the industry, increasing global visibility, while enhancing the scope of offshore crew transportation operations. Additionally, the acquisition w