Author Archive for JetAviator7
John White is an ATP Pilot with several type ratings including the venerable Douglas DC-3. Over the years he has been both a charter pilot, flight instructor, corporate flight department head and retired from a 30 year career in the aviation insurance business in 2004.
Enhanced and Synthetic Flight Vision Systems
More advanced systems are coming into vogue, including the enhanced and synthetic flight vision systems. With each advance in technology the ability to operate aircraft in worse and worse conditions safely improves. A perfect example of operating an aircraft in close proximity to the ground in bad weather was the crash of the Tu-154 airplane [...]
HUD Display Data
We discussed the required HUDs display data yesterday, but most exceed these minimum requirements. As the technology evolves more and more critical flight information can be displayed on the HUD. The flight path vector data is useful for a pilot because it provides information about when the aircraft is losing energy, or during an instrument [...]
Heads Up Displays – Not Just For Airplanes Anymore
Heads Up Displays in aircraft continued to improve with the development of standardized HUD symbols being created by a French test pilot in the 1960s. This made transitioning between different aircraft with HUD systems easier, and those symbols are used today. The goal of a HUD system in aircraft is to centralize critical flight data [...]
HUDs, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems and Synthetic Vision Systems
The one thing about aviation that is constant is change, and how flight data is presented to the pilot is no different. When I first learned to fly we used what are now fondly referred to as “steam gauges.” These have been replaced by Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs), or large screen displays on the instrument [...]
The DC-3, A Real Man’s Airplane
Every now and then you run across an article you just have to read, and so it was with an article in Flying by Martha Lunken titled “DC-3, A Real Man’s Airplane.” Without a doubt this is one of the best articles written about this wonderful 75 year old airplane, and which brought back memories [...]
Is The World Freefall Record About To Be Beat?
Aviation is an interesting business, and records are an integral part of aviation. 50 years ago Joe Kittinger documented his jump from 102,800 feet, but that record is about to be challenged by a Red Bull team. But, that’s not all – they intend to film the entire event with a bevy of cameras ranging [...]
How Hard Are Times For Aircraft Dealers?
Just how hard are times for aircraft dealers? I doubt anyone, other than Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama, think things are getting any better. After the assault on the use of business jets in the general aviation community, followed by General Motors closing the oldest flight department, and companies fleeing from Las Vegas, [...]
