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Ben Sclair

Different paths to the cockpit

By Ben Sclair · March 26, 2025 · 4 Comments

Rachel Skirvin and Sarah Roark didn’t start their working lives in aviation, but made bold pivots once they found their passion. Their journeys prove aviation can be a second career — even for those from entirely different fields.

Here we go…again

By Ben Sclair · March 13, 2025 · 5 Comments

The FAA opens a new remote tower facility in Atlantic City, but we’ve been down this path before. 

Internalize the lesson

By Ben Sclair · February 26, 2025 · 1 Comment

How do you best learn? Positive reinforcement? Admonishment for mistakes made? Writing and re-writing the lessons learned? And when you learn something, how do you internalize that lesson?

Do they really want to hear from us?

By Ben Sclair · February 19, 2025 · 11 Comments

The juxtaposition of the Piper AD story and the story that followed put a smile on my face.

Hydrogen-electric powered Bonanza in development

By Ben Sclair · February 14, 2025 · 9 Comments

Stralis A36-HE Bonanza.

Stralis currently has two A36 Bonanza airframes. The pair of A36-HEs are affectionally named Bonnie and Clyde.

FAA memo returns airport flexibility in flight testing

By Ben Sclair · January 28, 2025 · 1 Comment

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“Needlessly limiting airports during flight testing is detrimental to safety and the flight testing process itself.”

What’s up with unpaved field certification?

By Ben Sclair · January 24, 2025 · 3 Comments

If you land on an unpaved runway in an airplane without an approval for operating on that runway type, and something goes wrong, I’d expect your insurer to scrutinize that event closely.

FAA recommends AOA for all aircraft

By Ben Sclair · January 23, 2025 · 32 Comments

AOA systems offer a more reliable indication of an impending stall than airspeed indicators alone.

Grounded Hogs Gala returns to Museum of Flight with Martin Mars pilots

By Ben Sclair · January 22, 2025 · Leave a Comment

“Men on Mars,” will feature Martin Mars pilots Peter Killin and Rick Matthews of Coulson Aviation as the evening’s keynote speakers.

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