When I was 15 I was painfully made aware of what ear popping was, or in my case, the lack of ear popping during a descent into Tenerife in the Canary Islands. To be honest, I think that was the...
Category: Medical
As I was perusing the internet, YouTube suggested a video to me of a pilot in a centrifuge and his face was all warped and then he blacked out! I'm sure you may have seen similar videos and I wanted...
If you have a keen eye you may have noticed that most pilots are wearing sunglasses when they fly. Is it a coincidence they all seem to be wearing them or is it just the stereotype? There are good...
We have all seen Hollywood movies where the fighter pilot rips off their mask after a heroic dogfight, but in real life would this ever happen? Do they wear masks just to look cool, because airline...
When I was in flight school I remember a fellow student having to go out on the apron and have light gun signals fired at him. At the time none of us knew what this was about until he later explained...
Are you wanting to become a pilot but you wear glasses, contact lenses, or have even had corrective vision surgery? Eyesight must be important to a pilot right? But how good must it be? Pilots can...