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Article: Hot Starts

When was the last time you drove down to 7-Eleven on a sizzling-hot summer afternoon to buy a Lotto ticket, came back with what you hoped were the winning numbers, and your car refused to start because of the heat?

Also labeled: Decision Making, Features, Flight Training, Pilot Safety, Pilot Talk, Safety

Article: Beyond The Checkride

So now what? You've earned the private certificate and are happily amassing flight time with all kinds of aerial adventures.

Also labeled: Decision Making, Features, Flight Training, Pilot Safety, Pilot Talk, Safety

Article: The Logic Of Flaps

By any measure, flaps have almost no downside, but they're perhaps the least appreciated component of an aircraft.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills

Article: Expand Your Iceberg

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.

Also labeled: Aviation News, Careers, Features, Flight Schools, Flight Training, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, Passenger Comfort, Pilot Skills

Article: Weather Avoidance Techniques

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. ...

Also labeled: Weather, Weather Flying, Features, Flight Hazards, Proficiency, Safety

Article: 10 Flying Techniques From Great Aviators

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.

Also labeled: Aviation History, Aviation Personalities, Features, Flight Training, People and Places, Pilot Talk, Top 10s

Article: Risky Business

How risky is your next flight? ...

Also labeled: Decision Making, Features, Pilot Safety, Safety

Article: 10 Tips For VFR Flying In Marginal Weather

It was the classic example of baby- bird stupidity.

Also labeled: Features, Flight Training, Learn To Fly, Weather, Weather Flying

Article: When To Abort

Mention the word "abort" to a pilot, and you'll immediately summon visions of every pilot's nightmare— an engine failure on takeoff. ...

Also labeled: Decision Making, Features, Learn To Fly, Pilot Guide, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: IFR Strategies In Convective Weather

I just completed a trip from a coastal town in northern California, to Erie, Penn., and back in a Columbia 400.

Also labeled: Decision Making, Descents, Learn To Fly, Pilot Guide, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: Say When

I'm one of the world's luckiest pilots. On occasion, I'm allowed to fly some of the best new airplanes in general aviation.

Also labeled: Decision Making, Descents, Features, Learn To Fly, Pilot Guide, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills

Article: Consequences Of Mayday

It's a notorious section of the North Atlantic known for high waves and vicious winds. It runs 600 miles from the coast of Iceland southeast past the Faroes and Orkney Islands to Northern Scotland.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, Features, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency

Article: Aviation’s “Little” Emergencies

I had just departed Long Beach, Calif., in a Bellanca Viking, headed for the Reno Air Races, when black oil began flowing out of the cowling and onto the windshield. ...

Also labeled: Aircraft, Features, Flight Training, Pilot Guide, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: Never Run It Dry

It was the Christmas holiday, and I was on my way back from the Bahamas to Venice, Fla.

Also labeled: Aircraft, Features, Flight Training, Pilot Guide, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: 30 Things Not To Do In The Pattern

So much of aviation education is built around doing things right.

Also labeled: Features, Flight Training, Pilot Guide, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: Over Water, Under Canopy!

Cylinder-head temp gauges are creeping noticeably toward the red lines. Not good. No, this isn't looking good at all.

Also labeled: Decision Making, Emergency Situations, Features, Flight Hazards, Learn To Fly, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills

Article: The Joys Of Summer

It was late summer, and I nursed the old Bellanca Cruisemaster higher as we passed over Blue Mesa Reservoir near Gunnison, Colo.

Also labeled: Decision Making, Emergency Situations, Features, Flight Hazards, Learn To Fly, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency

Article: The Ultimate Choice

It was a particular flight in December of 2011 that really stands out in my mind.

Also labeled: Decision Making, Emergency Situations, Features, Flight Hazards, Learn To Fly, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency

Article: Getting Back Into It

Yeah, I got my license, but then I got married, had a couple of kids and got engrossed in building my career, so I didn't fly for a long time. ...

Also labeled: Features, Learning Center, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills, Proficiency

Article: 20 Things You May Not Know About Night Flying

To that end, I studied with one of Hollywood's hardest-working studio lead trumpet players, Bud Brisbois.

Also labeled: Features, Flight Hazards, Flight Planning, Navigation, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills

Article: Precision Flying

Precision and approximation: These are contradictory terms that, when applied to flying, have more to do with the pilot's mind-set than they do with skill. ...

Also labeled: Features, Learning Center, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Training

Article: A Part 142 Flight Review

Like so many aeronautical adventures, this was a quest for a signature.

Also labeled: Features, Flight Training, Learning Center, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills, Proficiency

Article: Living Large

Making the transition from a fixed- gear piston into a turbine isn't easy, cheap or quick, but it's possible.

Also labeled: Engines, Features, Flight Training, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, Piston Engines, Turbine Singles, Turbine Twins

Article: Aerosim Flight Academy

It's not only general aviation that faces a pilot shortage.

Also labeled: Aviation Careers, Jobs and Schools, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, People and Places

Article: How Low Should You Go?

The indiscretions of youth. It's all too easy to examine stupid pilot tricks and dismiss them as functions of immaturity.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Skills, Safety, Takeoffs and Landings

Article: Combating Crosswinds

Neither the wind given to you by the tower, nor that shown on a mid-field wind sock, is likely to be what you actually experience when landing. ...

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Skills, Safety, Takeoffs and Landings, Weather, Weather Flying, Weather Skills, Winds

Article: Weather Avoidance: Back To Basics

It's one of the great paradoxes in aviation that one of the biggest killers of pilots —weather—is one of the least understood and least taught subjects in primary flight instruction.

Also labeled: Pilot Skills, Safety, Takeoffs and Landings, Weather, Weather Flying, Weather Skills, Winds

Article: Airline Transport Professionals

As it prepares to celebrate its 28th anniversary, ATP has grown into one of the largest and most highly respected professional flight-training academies in the world. ...

Also labeled: Aviation Careers, Jobs and Schools, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, People and Places

Article: Running With The Big Dogs: A Jet Experience

Don't be in a rush to screw things up!" It's one of many little sayings and memory joggers that 2010 National CFI Of The Year Jeffrey Robert Moss (everyone calls him "MossY") teaches students in his Flying Like The Pros (FLTP) system....

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Aviation Resources, Jets, Learn To Fly, Pilot Safety

Article: Do Something Magical: Learn To Fly

I'm still learning to fly. Even three decades after earning my private pilot certificate at 17, I'm still a student pilot, and I'm okay with it. ...

Also labeled: Aviation Careers, Careers, Features, Flight Schools, Flight Training, Getting Your License, Jobs and Schools, Learn To Fly, People and Places, Pilot Resources, Staying Current