This NTSB accident report, concerning the crash of an RV-10, killing the pilot, is a cautionary story about the negative impacts of impatience. The moral of this story - if you get impatient and start short-cutting things, it can kill you... more »

For some time a searchable text file version of CP01-82 has been in existence. Marc Zeitlin has now loaded the remaining CP issues up to his website here. The loaded files are Adobe Acrobat format and therefore are not text-searchable, but simply havi… more »

On Thursday I went off to get my FAA Medical Certificate renewed - it had expired on 2nd September. I duly filled in the form for a 3rd Class Certificate, took all of the vision tests, peed in the cup etc. Then I went for the physical exam. However, when… more »

James and I both work at EDS...or at least we both used to work at EDS. I spoke to James last week, and he has finally tired of life in corporate America. He left EDS 3 weeks ago, and is going to make canard aviation his full-time life's work. When I s… more »

When I bought the Long-EZ in 2000, I was already reasonably well-prepared, having already accumulated backseat passenger time in a Vari-EZE and Long-EZ, and front right seat time in a Cozy III. However, I still had to negotiate the initial transition t… more »