Flight Hazards
Article: The 10 Dumbest Things Pilots Do
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Article: World's Stupidest Pilot Errors
If you’ve ever been to a...
Article: The Lazy Pilot’s Guide To Single-Pilot IFR Success
You can be proud of the hard work you’ve put into reaching pilot status—especially if...
Article: Devastating Details
One consequence of the nation’s economic downturn and the accompanying slump in general aviation was that some...
Article: Crosswind Landings FAQs
Article: The Last Spin
This is how it...
Article: Taking On Extreme Runways
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 ...
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...
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...
Article: Why Every Pilot Should Take Acro
Article: The 10 Commandments Of Aviation Safety
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...
Article: The Stigma Of Mayday
Face it, no one likes to admit mistakes. Probably because of the Superman syndrome, pilots are...
Article: 12 Tips To Beat The Heat
Most new-production and many high-performance aircraft have fuel-injected engines....
Article: Control The Crosswind!
There are several ways to start an argument. They range from the old favorites, politics...
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...
Article: Safety In Numbers
This past March, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released preliminary accident statistics for 2004. The numbers show a welcome overall safety trend for general aviation (GA),...
Article: Top 10 Pilot Errors
One of the most disturbing statistics about general-aviation accidents is that more than 75% of them are made...
Article: Avoiding Midair Collisions
It was over so fast, it was almost as if it hadn’t h...
Article: Turbulent Times
A few weeks ago, New York was experiencing an extended period of rainy weather, accompanied by what seemed like constant low overcasts, reduced visibility and winds that were...
Article: Thunderstorms: Managing The Risk
It was June 1977, and I had climbed out of Reading, Pa., in a new Rockwell...
Article: Weather-Avoidance Assistance
While the primary duty of controllers is to separate and direct traffic, they also have a duty to help pilots avoid weather hazards. The FAA’s handbook for controllers requires them to issue pertinent information on observed and reported weather, p...
Article: The Go/No-Go Decision
Every pilot has his own tolerance for risk, but most of us who fly ferry across the oceans on a semi-regular basis have developed our own set of guidelines for when we will or won’t fly. We l...
Article: Busting TFRs
Once upon a time, you could pull the airplane out of the hangar, fire up the engine, point it into the wind and fly....
Article: The Touchdown Set-Up
One of the really great things about most light general aviation airplanes is that they generally are highly responsive to control and power inputs, and touchdown speeds are comparatively...
Article: Deciphering Accident Statistics
The aviation industry sure loves its statistics—there’s an X% chance of this, and one aircraft is Y...
Article: Flight Level Fliers
We live in the best of times and the worst of times. Imagine flying with glass panels that allow you to...
Article: Box Canyon Hazards
The visibility isn’t the best going up the mountain pass. On the far side lies better weather and home. Behind are a...
Article: Winter Flying
Winter—it’s cold, it’s dark and sometimes it seems like spring will never come. But, lots of pilots live in cold count...
