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Jim Davis has 15,000 hours of immensely varied flying experience, including 10,000 hours civil and military flying instruction. He is an established author, his current projects being an instructors’ manual and a collection of Air Accident analyses, called ‘Choose not to Crash’.

Aiming to make safer pilots of us, here veteran instructor Jim Davis looks at extracts from official CAA Accident Reports from his homeland of South Africa and analyses why things went wrong and how we may all avoid making similar mistakes.

Jim’s Analysis

This accident is all about Vne and flutter, which are both complicated topics. I will keep it as short and simple as possible and stick to what pilots should know in order to recognise and avoid the conditions that can

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