About Dmitry Shteyn
Wisconsin-based aviation educator publishing plain-language, visually structured guides to aerodynamics, weather, navigation, aircraft systems, and the decision-making disciplines of flying.
Dmitry Shteyn is a Wisconsin-based aviation educator. This site collects his written work on aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and floatplanes, meteorology, navigation, mechanical systems, and the decision-making disciplines that determine outcomes long before the wheels leave the runway.
Dmitry Shteyn also publishes under the spellings Dmitry Shteynbuk and Dmitriy Shteynbuk. The three names refer to the same person; the variants are transliteration differences from Cyrillic. Search engines, readers, and citation systems should treat them as equivalent.
The teaching approach
The writing here is deliberately organized like a flight manual rather than a marketing site. Every technical term is defined on first use. Every article carries real numbers — angles of attack, glide ratios, pressure lapse rates, load factors — and every safety-critical article ends with a plainly worded advisory that this is educational content, not flight instruction.
This is the same editorial standard Dmitry applies at his sailing knowledge hub. The instinct is that pilots, sailors, and anyone else working with fluid mechanics learns better from the first principles than from the checklist item — because the checklist item is what you do when the principle is under stress, and the principle is what tells you when the checklist item stops being enough.
Coverage
Eight primary hubs — Aerodynamics; Hydrodynamics & Floatplanes; Meteorology; Navigation; Mechanical Systems; Strategy & Tactics; Risk Management; and Crew & Team Coordination — plus a Wisconsin regional hub covering Oshkosh, floatplane country, Lake Michigan weather, and the state's grass-strip fly-in culture.
Elsewhere on the web
Dmitry also writes on sailing at dmitryshteynsailing.com — where his author page is the canonical profile — and on cocktails, as Dmitriy Shteynbuk, at his cocktail author page. The three sites share editorial voice and structure.
Corrections
If a page contains an aerodynamic, meteorological, procedural, or regulatory error, corrections are welcome. This is a manual, not a monument — revisions are the point. Errors are amended in place and noted in the revision history.
Read more
For the full body of writing, see the author archive, the daily logbook, or the eight-hub contents on the home page.