• 7 Times Lucky – How to Survive a Low-Altitude Engine Failure (Hopefully)

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    Join CFI Daniel Feldman for an exploration of low-altitude engine failures and the lessons he has learned after seven of them.   Speaker Bio: Daniel Feldman is a CFI Sport with more than 3,500 hours of dual given and over 5,000 total flight hours. He is the owner of Foxtrot Aero, which specializes in light […]

  • Flight Following Or Go Rogue?

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    You take off for your VFR one-hour cross-country. You're about to head into a TRSA, so you call for flight following. It's crazy hot and bumpy, so you tell them your destination, and you are climbing to 8,500 feet. Unfortunately, that's not what ATC has in mind. They say maintain at or below 3000'.  Whoa! […]

  • Don’t Be a Fool With Fuel – Tom DeJan

    Harper College 1375 S Wolf Road, Prospect Heights, IL, United States

    CEPA Safety Meeting Flying is a skill that you learned to get your pilot certificates. And, systems was a big part of that. But you probably learned practically nothing about fuel metering, operation, and performance. Tom will discuss carburetion, fuel injection, engine limits and operation, and performance planning. Speaker:  Tom DeJan has over 30 years of […]