CPPP in Vegas: Success in spite of weather

We had a great CPPP event this last weekend in Las Vegas and I wanted to take a second to say thank you to all who made this event happen.

Thanks especially to all the attendees!  Without all of you, none of the rest of us would have been there.  It's great to see so many pilots interested in aviation excellence and safety.  Keep that kind of mentality and you'll go far in aviation (figuratively and literally).

It was also great to see so many non-pilots attending Mike Radomsky's teaching of the PIC course on Saturday morning and then coming over to the sim so we could put you through your paces.  Your dedication to learning about this mode of transportation and specifically how you can help out should the need ever arise shows a high level of responsibility in aviation safety.  Be sure to keep practicing with the checklist Mike gave you!

I was able to teach on both days since I was the sim operator for the weekend.  If you've read much of my blog over the previous months, you know that we have a full motion Cirrus simulator at our base in Las Vegas.  It's a great teaching tool for approaches, procedures, emergencies, and trying out new minimums.  I had a great crew of clients come through for their hour and a half or so of sim work.  I snapped a couple of photos:

I think Jake knew something was coming:

This is just before the sim session started.  You can see the big metal walkways are still down.  We pull them up prior to engaging the motion.  You can also see TWO fire extinguishers up there.  The closer one is real, the one inside the cab has compressed air for fighting the simulated fires I can cause, courtesy of our smoke machine.

I'll see if I can compress the video I shot with my pocket camera that shows the smoke billowing out of the cab... stay tuned.

Thanks again to all who attended.  It was a great weekend!

Safe flying!

John Fiscus

Chief Pilot, The Flight Academy

www.theflightacademy.com