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Symposium a Success
My research presentation was very popular this year. One has to be prepared for anything with an 8 AM audience, and I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people who expressed interest in my work. This was my third appearance at the EMU Undergraduate Symposium. Drawing on experience from previous years, I created a…
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Choosing a Flight School
The first step into flight training is to go flying. Many flight schools offer a discounted first lesson as a taste of how exciting it is to be in the airplane. I paid $29 at the local flight school for my intro flight in 2008. That’s practically free, and it was one of the best…
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Hypoxia Incident Audio Released Last Week
Air traffic communications recorded on 16 November 2012 and released in a new audio file on 6 March provide an edge-of-the-seat experience of hypoxia incapacitation. The aircraft involved was a Piaggio P180 Avanti twin turbo, tail # N501PM, which had just departed Dallas, Texas (KDFW) heading to Michigan. The recording begins with Fort Worth Center (ZFW)…
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Survey Results to be Previewed at Symposium
The results are in from my survey about airline passenger misconduct! Participants recruited from popular aviation websites helped produce over 16,000 data points that need to be analyzed. It is a great amount of new information to sift through. I am working on several pie charts and other fun display items for a general audience.…
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Do You Want To Be a Pilot?
I’ve decided to start my articles about university life with a series called the Flight Training Survival Guide. This first installment looks at what it takes to be a successful flight student before committing yourself to a costly endeavor.
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Air Rage and Pilot-Survey.com
My new survey website is up and running at: Pilot-Survey.com Airline pilots, flight attendants, and passengers: Have a look at that website! I am encouraging everyone to help out by taking 10 minutes to complete the survey and pass the website address along to colleagues. The current research project involves the topic of airline passenger…
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Introducing CaptainsLog.aero
Welcome to my new website! This introductory post describes the mission and plans for CaptainsLog.aero. Please read, comment, and subscribe to get the most out of my new content.
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The Runway Incursion Avoidance Task
A new chapter in the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge dated June 2012 contains “information pilots will be tested and checked on,” but is nowhere to be found in the faa.gov version of the PHAK. I’ve put together relevant links and critical notes about this elusive document.
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Fall Finals
Aviation Senior Seminar is coming to a close this week. For future reference, all of my posts for the class are filed under AVT422. Coming into this class, my career plans consisted of a few goals: Graduation, entry-level pilot job, regional or corporate upgrades, and some day get to fly one of the Boeing 7×7…
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Emissions Trading Explained, With Stick Figures
Behold the combination of my graphical design talent with my ability to explain the inner workings of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS). Both are amazing, I know. Here’s the background. Europe (the blue stick figure) has been concerned about air pollution and global warming for many years. In 2005, to reverse the trend…