The TLAR (“That Looks About Right”) IOS app is designed to assist with pre-flight planning and in-flight decision making if a power loss occurs.
This briefing will walk a pilot through a successful turnback beginning with a building block approach to teach proper handling skills, pre-flight/pre-takeoff planning, use of the TLAR app, the takeoff, engine failure, TLAR displays, and techniques for piloting a turnback, including use of AoA. The brief includes short videos.
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Mike Vaccaro is part of the FlyONSPEED team, a non-profit flight research and engineering design group dedicated to reducing loss of control risk in EAB and GA. The team was selected as the first-place winner of the EAA’s Founder’s Innovation Award Prize in 2018, and Grand Champion in 2021 for their work. The team designs hardware, conducts flight tests, and produces education resources for the Experimental Amateur Built community.
Mike is a retired USAF Lt. Colonel, F-4/F-15 pilot, Fighter Weapons School instructor, test pilot, commander and veteran of three combat deployments. He started flight instructing in GA in 1983 and is a current CFII/ME and airline pilot. He flies a specially instrumented experimental RV-4 for testing angle of attack, energy management systems and the TLAR decision app from his home airport, Ruckel Field (FL17) 5 miles east of Eglin AFB in the Florida Panhandle, where he lives with his wife Theresa.
Jeff is the owner/CEO of Owyhee Aviation, LLC. He is an Air Force Academy graduate and retired USAF Colonel, a C-130 pilot and veteran of five combat deployments, and a senior analyst for the RAND Corporation. A USAF Weapons School graduate, Jeff commanded three C-130 units: the 29th Weapons Squadron in Arkansas, the 777th Tactical Airlift squadron in Iraq, and the 317th Tactical Airlift Group in Texas.
Jeff is an FAA-licensed commercial multi-engine instrument-rated pilot, aircraft builder and FAA-licensed experimental repairman. He built his Glasair Sportsman in 2016. Since then, he has logged 1200 hours in “Miss Juliet” flying back country in the mountains of Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado.
Jeff developed and coded his iOS app, “TLAR,” to improve flight safety by providing pilots situational awareness of their aircraft’s performance in planning and in flight. Jeff and his wife Liz, children, Mary and David, live in Boise, Idaho.
Karen is the NAFI Board Chair, a Designated Pilot Examiner, three-time NAFI Master Instructor, CFI, CFII, MEI, CFI-G, AGI, IGI, FAA Gold Seal Instructor and FAASTeam Lead Representative. She teaches in a range of aircraft and enjoys flying her own RV6.
Karen is a Major in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), serves as a member of the WINGS Industry Network, contributes to the FAA Surface Safety Group, is an FAA Safety Team Lead Representative, and is active in several other aviation organizations. Karen is the 2019 National FAASTeam Representative of the year.
She became active in aviation after success as a senior VP in the banking sector, as a graduate school professor, and as President of her own international consulting business.
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