Ron Amundson on January 8th, 2011

Shorts, the box the airplane came in. The biggest fear of every Shorts crew is crashing in a trailer park, as the wreckage would never be found. The Shorts flies by vacuum (it’s so ugly that the air is repulsed and gets out of the way) I gotta admit though… always thought the whole corrugated [...]

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Ron Amundson on July 15th, 2009

Its funny looking back, how aviation tended to level out social demographics. The funniest I ever experienced was the dialog between a F100 A level exec and a auto mechanic. At the airport, both tended to wear biker attire, and flew similar airplanes, and often chat with one another. During the workweek, each had dramatically [...]

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Ron Amundson on April 16th, 2006

Podcasting is a tool a CFI can use to increase instructional efficiency, build business, and potentially provide an additional revenue stream. First a definition. Podcasting , in its simplest terms is prerecorded and subscribable audio programs that can de downloaded from the internet and played on an Ipod, MP3 player, or even on ones pc [...]

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Ron Amundson on March 13th, 2006

Recurrecny training is difficult for most pilots once they have earned their certificate. This is especially true for the ground school subjects, as for all too many people, they appear boring, and for some pilots lack relevance. One of the things I’ve done in the past is provided short seminars at nights, or for the [...]

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Ron Amundson on December 29th, 2005

I’ve always wondered about such programs. The latest one I heard of was Sport Pilot in a week. This is encouraging in one way, in that it fosters interest and excitement in aviation. In addition, the short time and the financial commitment doesn’t allow the student to loose interest, or get sidetracked by other external [...]

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