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24: Karen Kahn - Retired Airline Captain, Speaker, Author, Career Counselor - Inspired Pilot
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24: Karen Kahn – Retired Airline Captain, Speaker, Author, Career Counselor. Listen to this episode below:. What does it take to become a pilot? Join us as Karen gives us insight into her inspiring pilot journey. Karen Kahn piloted her first flight at the age of 19 and then 9 years later, in 1977, was one of the first woman hired by a major airline. Karen now retired from a thirty six-plus year airline pilot career with Continental. In her hometown of Santa Barbara, California in the United States. Karen...
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Captain Karen Kahn: April 2015
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Friday, April 17, 2015. Good Timing is Important. 3 of My Series: Behind the Cockpit Door. My work and life mantra of being proactive and giving people the tools they need to do their job has been uppermost in my mind on every one of my flights in my 27 years of flying as a Captain. Learning when to open my mouth to be proactive soon became the third tenant of my now 3-part personal philosophy:. Be Proactive, Provide the Tools, and Timing is Crucial. Happy to finally get on board our late-arriving airpla...
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Captain Karen Kahn: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Automation: Great for Finding the Right Airport. Years ago, as a low-time pilot approaching San Diego’s Lindbergh Field at night in IFR weather, I managed to get lost by failing to follow the automation telling me where the runway was located and relied, instead, on my eyes…to lead me astray. I made the common. Thank you, ATC, for preventing me from landing at Miramar Naval Air Station! Here’s an example of when automation definitely wins over the manual mode. If you accept a visua...
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Captain Karen Kahn: December 2013
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Sunday, December 29, 2013. Automation: No substitute for Experience. The Asiana crash demonstrates that the easiest approach (usually visual approaches are considered to be less complicated than instrument approaches) isn't quite what it appears to be and is more complex than first meets the eye. Posted by Captain Karen Kahn. Sunday, December 1, 2013. Automation: Use it appropriately. I think the bigger problem with automation is when to turn it off and fly manually? When should we, as pilots, switch fro...
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Captain Karen Kahn: April 2012
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Thursday, April 5, 2012. Backseat iPilot Tests iEFB. Recently I had a chance to do some back-seat flying…as a passenger enroute to pick up my airplane after its annual inspection. The hour’s flight to Madera, CA gave me a good opportunity to play with my new iPad2 and the iEFB App for the iPad v 4.1. www.flightguide.com. Now, with iEFB chart overlays, you can have instant positional awareness and plan/fly accordingly. Shuffling pages/charts becomes a thing of the past as you “see” your IF...
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Captain Karen Kahn: Correct Fuel Loading Crucial
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Monday, March 30, 2015. Correct Fuel Loading Crucial. 2 of My Series: Behind the Cockpit Door. In my last blog we talked about having too much fuel…now let’s discuss what happens when you’ve put it in the wrong place…. Just when you think you’re comfortable and have the fuel you need, things can get tricky. I learned my lesson one morning departing Houston for Los Angeles with what appeared to be plenty of fuel for the planned flight. This had not been done correctly and I’d failed to notice the pr...
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Captain Karen Kahn: Fuel Pushing
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Monday, May 11, 2015. 4 of my series Behind the Cockpit Door. It sounds like a weird notion, Fuel Pushing, but it’s my description of the pressure that can be placed upon the Captain from other airline personnel, be it a dispatcher, a load planner, a gate agent or a supervisor to take less fuel on a particular flight to allow more passengers to be boarded. Jet fuel is, after all, weight (at 6.7 pounds per gallon). Like every captain, I had developed my own personal minimums (which I’ll talk about i...
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Captain Karen Kahn: May 2015
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Monday, May 11, 2015. 4 of my series Behind the Cockpit Door. It sounds like a weird notion, Fuel Pushing, but it’s my description of the pressure that can be placed upon the Captain from other airline personnel, be it a dispatcher, a load planner, a gate agent or a supervisor to take less fuel on a particular flight to allow more passengers to be boarded. Jet fuel is, after all, weight (at 6.7 pounds per gallon). Like every captain, I had developed my own personal minimums (which I’ll talk about i...
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Captain Karen Kahn: January 2011
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Thursday, January 6, 2011. My Christmas in Antigua. It certainly wasn’t a white Christmas this year for me although is was bit chillier than I had planned. I have friends from high school who are working with a non-profit organization ( www.semillasparafuturo.org. During my 45 minute midnight drive, I learned my favorite new word: "bacho," which is pothole in Spanish. I was to find this word to be very helpful over the next week of traveling local roads both major and minor. Below are just a few of my fa...
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Captain Karen Kahn: February 2013
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Saturday, February 9, 2013. Aviation Etiquette – Crucial Concepts for Confined Workspaces. Many pilots may not have experienced the joys and sorrows of working in a normal office environment but never the less they need to learn that many of the same manners are needed for successful piloting in a multi-pilot or single pilot space, particularly if passengers are close by. Did you do most of your flying solo or as single pilot? 8221; line to clearly advise them of my impending departure from the cockpit.
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