Advanced skills

Articles to help increase your flying knowledge and practical skills.

08 Apr 2011

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official accident reports and analyses why things went wrong and what can be learnt.

08 Apr 2011

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official accident reports and analyses why things went wrong and what can be learnt.

08 Feb 2011

In the second of our two-part series, Jim Davis takes you into the cockpit for some practical twin-engine flying.

07 Feb 2011

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official accident reports and analyses why things went wrong and what can be learnt.

06 Feb 2011

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official accident reports and analyses why things went wrong and what can be learnt.

03 Dec 2010

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, here veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official CAA Accident Reports from his own homeland of South Africa and analyses why things went wrong and how we may all avoid making similar mistakes.

03 Dec 2010

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, here veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official CAA Accident Reports from his own homeland of South Africa and analyses why things went wrong and how we may all avoid making similar mistakes.

03 Dec 2010

Are you ready to upgrade to a twin? In the first of our two-part series, Jim Davis takes you through some of the drawcards and drawbacks of having two engines.

03 Dec 2010

CASA has released a Civil Aviation Advisory Publication offering pilots advice on how to best prepare for and handle ditching events.

08 Oct 2010

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, here veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official CAA Accident Reports from his own homeland of South Africa and analyses why things went wrong and how we may all avoid making similar mistakes.