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Ian Kluft ✈️🎈🌋

5 years ago on March 14-15, 2020, I took what turned out to be the last in-person FIRC (Flight Instructor Renewal Course) offered by AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI). This one was in Santa Clara CA but others locations also had them that weekend. The next day, March 16, 2020 all 9 Bay Area counties went into COVID lockdown to prevent St Patrick's Day parties from becoming superspreader events. AOPA ASI did not resume in-person instruction for FIRCs after the pandemic. #aviation #pilot #avgeek

photo of Flight Instructor Renewal Course (FIRC) classroom training AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI) instructor stands at the front of the room The slide on screen is titled "CFI Renewal 61.197" has an overview of the ways US flight instructors can renew their certificates, which includes the FIRC course. (These procedures later changed in Dec 2024. With no expiration of certificates, methods of renewing current experience to teach remain the same. A FIRC is still one of the methods.) by Ian Kluft Santa Clara, California March 14, 2020
photo of Flight Instructor Renewal Course (FIRC) classroom training AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI) instructor stands at the front of the room The slide on screen titled "Laws of Learning" contains a review of the learning process which subsequent slides went into more detail. Flight instructors are teachers so the FAA curriculum for renewal is required to review teaching methods. by Ian Kluft Santa Clara, California March 14, 2020
photo of Flight Instructor Renewal Course (FIRC) classroom training AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI) instructor stands at the front of the room The slide on screen is titled "Satellite positioning is time based" and shows the paths of signals from four GPS satellites to reach a GPS receiver on the ground, which uses time data in the signals to triangulate its location by Ian Kluft Santa Clara, California March 14, 2020
photo of Flight Instructor Renewal Course (FIRC) classroom training AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI) instructor stands at the front of the room The slide on screen is titled "Pilot Deviations" with a subtitle "Their causes and how to teach your students to plan ahead to avoid them". This was the title slide of a chapter in the afternoon of the second day of the weekend class which covered FAA enforcement actions and best practices to teach students to avoid getting into those situations. by Ian Kluft Santa Clara, California March 15, 2020
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LyleDAL

The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers

"Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster."

wired.com/story/boeing-whistle

WIRED · The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for AnswersBy Lauren Smiley
#News#Investigation#Aviation
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Elan Head

#VirginAtlantic quietly ended its partnership with #eVTOL developer #VerticalAerospace in November 2024, clearing the way for its new agreement with #Joby #Aviation, which builds on Joby's existing agreement with #Delta Air Lines. Whether Joby will be required to meet current European design standards to fly in the UK is still an open question, as I explain in my latest report for The Air Current. #electricaviation theaircurrent.com/industry-str

The Air Current · Joby displaces Vertical at Virgin Atlantic as U.S. eVTOL developers gain influence abroadData-driven reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying.
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Ike

Went flying yesterday with good friend (they can ID themselves here on Mastodon if they want).

Visited Friday Harbor, WA and Tacoma Narrows airport in Gig Harbor, WA

Saw this happy little cloud opposite direction 3 oclock

Looking out over the wing of a small aircraft in the Seattle area - there is a small whispy cloud off the in the distance.
#Aviation#KRNT#KTIW
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Airplanista 🇺🇦

@ai6yr I think these days it would be hell to be a cross-country driver. There is always extreme WX somewhere. I know if I was still driving, with what I know about #aviation WX, I'd be watching it all. But also, those guys are pushed harder and harder to get the trailer empty so they can turn another load ASAP.

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