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Ben Sclair

Memento mori

By Ben Sclair · September 18, 2024 · 1 Comment

26,000 Days is a short film about Eric Tucker.

The nine-minute film is the “story of Eric Tucker, an air show pilot who turns most pilots’ nightmare into a beautiful dance. Through flying dead-stick — turning his own engine off and falling out of the sky — Eric confronts the challenge of how to make the most of life and live without regret.”

Enforcement before or after

By Ben Sclair · September 15, 2024 · 4 Comments

What if we changed the order of FAA oversight of aircraft development and manufacturing to match that of the automobile industry?

Restaurants, lodging, and camping on or near airports mapped

By Ben Sclair · September 14, 2024 · 4 Comments

The Airport Based Restaurants map includes 398 on-airport restaurants and 528 within one-and-one-half miles of an airport.

They don’t want to be pilots

By Ben Sclair · September 4, 2024 · 53 Comments

“People that want this are the same people who want self-driving cars,” wrote Brand Neumann. “They don’t want to be pilots, they just want to be passengers.”

A proud passenger

By Ben Sclair · August 26, 2024 · 7 Comments

It was an absolute joy to watch Brenna as pilot in command. From preflight to shutdown and securing of the aircraft — and everything in between — she was in command.

An airplane for people who don’t fly airplanes

By Ben Sclair · August 12, 2024 · 46 Comments

Personally, I’ve often wondered how an airplane would be designed if Orville and Wilbur had started their efforts today.

Congratulations Roger

By Ben Sclair · August 10, 2024 · Leave a Comment

Roger Dubbert named 2024 recipient of Spirit of Flight Award.

Roger Dubbert, the demo/test pilot at Zenith Aircraft Company, was named the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Spirit of Flight Award.

Sustaining general aviation

By Ben Sclair · August 7, 2024 · 2 Comments

Each year the FAA forecasts the number of aircraft they predict will be in the general aviation fleet over the next 20 year period. This table is from the 2024 forecast.

All the data I’ve found seems to point to a General Aviation inventory just over 200,000. And it has been there for a few decades.

A flight review five years in the making

By Ben Sclair · July 29, 2024 · 7 Comments

Regardless of what life throws at me tomorrow, today I’m current.

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