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Our pilot training articles are designed to help you improve your flying proficiency. Bone up on beneficial skills as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid as a pilot. Fly right with articles on topics such as dealing with ice and the most dangerous things you can do as a pilot.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 What Is Proficiency? Ten ways of telling whether you’re actually as good as you think you are Aviation is awash in proficiency-oriented literature and training courses. But, what exactly is proficiency?

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 No Ghosts In The Air…No Privacy, Either! The Great ADS-B Scare of 2012 After speaking with people in a position to know how the system works, now I can confirm that ADS-B won't make U.S. airspace less secure—far from it.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Aviation Careers: We’ve Only Just Begun With UAV careers leading the charge, aviation is booming As a kid in love with flying and all things related to it, I couldn't fathom the idea of getting paid for it.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 The Eyes Have It The difference between “looking” and “seeing” We're about to kick the sacred cow that is peripheral vision right in the butt and, in the process, probably generate a bunch of letters to the editor.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 The Logic Of Flaps Flaps make pilots’ lives easier—for those aviators who know how to use them By any measure, flaps have almost no downside, but they're perhaps the least appreciated component of an aircraft.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Expand Your Iceberg Plane & Pilot takes on AFIT’s 10-day instrument-rating program I was a stick-and-rudder pilot with very little knowledge of instrument flying. Steeped in flying wires, tube and fabric, I never thought I'd need or want an instrument rating.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Risky Business Little-known tools that can help make your next flight safer How risky is your next flight?

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10 Flying Techniques From Great Aviators Some of America's best pilots offer advice on how to fly smarter One of the great joys of this job is that I've been allowed to interview and get to know some of the most interesting pilots in aviation.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Weather Avoidance Techniques Staying Out of Trouble When it isn’t CAVU Today, a wide range of tools are available to help avoid those dangers, but each has limitations that must be understood in order to use them safely.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10 Tips For VFR Flying In Marginal Weather A few simple suggestions to help keep VFR pilots safe in marginal weather It was the classic example of baby- bird stupidity.

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