Essays on Preflight

Thunderbird Crash Colorado Springs (2nd June, 2016)

Introduction A Thunderbird jet F-16CJ, tail number 92-3890 was crashed on 2nd June 2016 at 1 pm local time after the pilot of the jet got ejected at approximately 5 miles south of Peterson AFB (Air Force Base). The Jet's pilot ejected safely at 13:00L and got some minor injuries but no other casualties and damage to the property of the civilians were reported. Exactly 8 seconds after the pilot got ejected from the aircraft, it impacted the ground. The aircraft having the value of US dollars 29,466,037 was destroyed in the accident which was a huge ...

The air near the surface will usually become warmer throughout the day. This is one of the main reasons why it is unstable. Then at night, the air that is close to the surface will begin to cool. This is going to form a temperature inversion or a stable atmosphere.2. Inversions aloft are sometimes called “capping inversions” or “lids”. Why?

This is because it is like putting a lid on the atmosphere.

3. You are flying at 4,000 feet AGL over a city during the day. There are no clouds present. As you descend to land at a nearby airport, you notice that, although visibility was very good at 4, ...

Lessons Learnt

I read three aviation related accidents and I was able to learn something new from each of the accidents. These lessons will help me in my future career as a pilot. There are some things that need to be done so as to prevent avoidable aviation accidents. The three accidents had different causes. All future pilots need to study some aviation related accidents so that they can learn from the mistakes made by other pilots. These lessons will enable me to avoid aviation related accidents in my future career as a pilot. The first case IAD96LA072 was where the ...