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Article: Turbocharger Trouble

You may already...

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Article: The Accelerated Stall

The accelerated stall usually surprises a pilot...

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Article: The Desire To Go Lower

On February 16, 2008, the...

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Article: Tiger Or Demon In Your Tank?

Misfueling occurs when the wrong...

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Article: Tight Is Right

It has been said that oil is the blood of an...

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Article: Do You Have An Accident Personality?

Are you a pilot who...

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Article: Avoiding CFIT Incidents

The NTSB began 2008 by issuing a Safety Alert aimed at...

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Article: LSA Safety

We seem to be at the dawn of a new era of hope for general...

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Article: Knowing The NOTAMs

Accident investigators sometimes discover that pilots don’t have...

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Article: Take A Good Look

Back when I was a student pilot, I developed a habit during the preflight inspection of stepping back and pausing to get an overall visual impression of the control surfaces on the airplane. It started after I had noticed that one of the ailerons on a...

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Article: Gone With The Wind

With apologies to Margaret Mitchell, most pilots would welcome the opportunity to be “gone with the wind” and let Mother Nature help keep a lid on upwardly creeping fuel costs. Just a few days ago, a friend of mine found that favorable winds aloft...

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Article: The Columbia STS-107 Accident

All of us in aviation lost seven friends last February. No one can forget the horrifying video of the space shuttle Columbia breaking up in the high sky over northwest Texas. For many of us who love the sky, the image was almost incomprehensible, a...

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Article: The NASA Report: Looking For Absolution

Before you ask, yes, I’ve...

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Article: Learning From Mistakes

One of the best things that the FAA ever did to promote aviation safety was to provide immunity from FAR violations prosecution for pilots who voluntarily report problems and incidents to NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) before the FAA g...

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Article: 10 Fast Fixes For Lousy Landings

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Article: The Wellstone Accident

The NTSB has released its final report on the October 25, 2002, accident in which U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and seven others were killed at Eveleth, Minn. The twin-engine turboprop King Air A100 didn’t have a cockpit voice recorder, so...

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Article: The FAA’s Capstone Project

General aviation in Alaska is different. Changeable weather and difficult...

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Article: Catastrophic Structural Failure

The overwhelming majority of airplanes have the potential to keep flying until it’s no longer economically viable to keep them in the air, provided that they’re operated within established parameters, receive regular inspections to detect problems and...

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Article: Icing Folklore

Icing is already a terribly complex topic without the many old wives’ tales and rules of thumb making it even more...

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Article: Worst-Case Weather Scenarios

There is absolutely no excuse for...

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Article: Known And Unknown Deficiencies

While the FAA makes the pilot responsible for determining whether or not an aircraft that he or she is about to fly is airworthy, the pilot must rely to a great extent on what others have...

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Article: The 10 Dumbest Things Pilots Do

Ask ...

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Article: Devastating Details

One consequence of the nation’s economic downturn and the accompanying slump in general aviation was that some...

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Article: The Last Spin

This is how it...

Also labeled: Flight Hazards, Flying Skills, Learning Center, Safety, Stalls and Spins

Article: A Deadly Sense of Euphoria

One of the subjects that is frequently emphasized in the materials that are published by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Aeromedical Education Division is hypoxia, which is more commonly ...

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Article: The Silent Killer

Against the background of an aging fleet of general-aviation, piston-powered airplanes, the NTSB suggested that it’s time for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to take a closer look at e...

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Article: Learning From A Heavy-Iron Accident

A Boeing 727 is different from the airplanes that most of us fly. Nevertheless, there are some things that we can learn from the NTSB’s recently completed report on an accident involving a FedEx c...

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Article: The 10 Commandments Of Aviation Safety

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Article: A Needle In A Haystack

Sometime in 2009, the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system will no longer be receiving distress signals on today’s common distress frequencies, 121.5 MHz and 243.0 MHz. Instead, the satellites will...

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Article: Fill ’Er Up

Running out of fuel and crashing is something you might expect from an inexperienced private pilot, but not from a crew of professional pilots or even experienced pilots. Yet that was exactly...

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