A project at the intersection of two things I care about — teaching people to fly and building in the open. The CFI Compendium is an open-source, community-driven library of flight-training lesson plans, free for everyone and improved by the instructing community...

Have you ever heard of the "50-70" rule for planning your takeoff abort criteria? I find it to be an extremely common "rule of thumb" applied with the best intentions to pre-takeoff briefings, but there's a better way to apply it...

Wondering if GitHub Pages/Jekyll supports LaTeX? It does! LaTeX is an elegant language for typesetting and is particularly useful for mathematical expressions...

A short discussion on the origins of the concept known as "pivotal altitude". If you've earned or are in the process of earning your commercial pilot certificate, you probably have heard of this concept used in "eights on pylons"...

Have you ever wished to have a (free) web-based calculator/companion to flight planning or performance calculations? I've been working on my CFI rating and envisioning creating a web-based tool for aviation calculations...

Thanks for taking the time to read this! I hope to do a few things with this blog: provide an outlet to express ideas and share writing, host lesson plans I create in pursuit of my CFI rating, and learn web development...