Must Have Apps. For pilots who have an iPhone, John Ewing of Aviation Mentor has posted a list and review of iPhone applications that he has found to be useful to pilots. The post is definitely worth browsing through.
Sporty’s Flight Training Downloads. Meanwhile, Scott Spangler of Jetwhine has stumbled upon Sporty’s Flight Training Downloads in the “Download Center” of Sporty’s Pilot Shop and discovered a “bonanza of affordable flight training information.” The best part about the section is that you can preview most of the titles before ordering.
Excel / Word Flight Instructor Lesson Plan Templates. On a related note, Paul of AskaCFI.com was given permission by Edwin Quinlan, the author of “Flight Instructor Lesson Plan Handbook,” to create a series of Excel / Word flight instructor lesson plan templates based upon chapters of the book. For further details about the templates and how to receive them, refer to AskaCFI.com.
What Lightening Can Do to a Plane. On a more serious note, several blogs including All Things Aviation and Plane Buzz have posted pictures showing what a lightening strike can do to an aircraft. Although the pictures look scary, it is important to remember that usually lightening strikes are no big deal. In fact, All Things Aviation points out that “estimates show that each commercial airliner averages one lighting hit per year but the last crash that was attributed to lightning was in 1967 when the fuel tank exploded.” Nevertheless, I still would NOT want to be the pilot of the plane in these pictures!
Max Trescott’s Aviation Heros. And finally, Max Trescott has created a serious of posts about aviation heroes on his blog, starting with Clyde Cessna, Flight Instructors, Paul Poberezny, Dale and Alan Klapmeier of Cirrus Design and ending with the Readers’ Top 16 Choices. Many of the nominees by readers are not household names and showcase the aviation contributions made by relatively ordinary people – well worth a read and something to think about.
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