Cleared for take-off

A long long time ago, I can still remember, I entered an aero-club, as a total newbie. 6 years and 300 hours flying hours later, I'm starting this blog to share some points about how safe this activity is, and what could be done to make it safer, if possible.

If I could log the time spent as safety-pilot, my flying time would probably be doubled. I don't like to fly alone, because it is boring, thus I very frequently take fellow pilots on board, and swap seats with them (ok, not in flight), so we both can increase our experience.

As the club was looking for evening classes theory teachers, and as I was looking qualified (in Europe, an IR rating is not so frequent for private pilots), I volunteered for that, so I'm now in charge of "Principles of Flight" and "Flight Planning and Performance" courses.

Beside that, I also developped quite a big interest about safety, safe and unsafe attitudes, inspection of incident / accident reports, and so on. I hope this experience and knowledge could be valuable to other pilots, and this is why I start this blog.

The topics I will develop here include, but are not limited to:
1) Know your performances and those of your aircraft

2) Manage weather and unusual conditions

3) Train enough to avoid getting rusty

4) Collaborate with ATC the smart way

5) Resist the temptation

6) Learn outside the cockpit

Any comment is obviously welcome as the goal is to share information about this hot topic.