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Article: Weather Encounters

There’s never b...

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Article: Flight Planning In The Real World

Also labeled: Decision Making, Flight Hazards, Pilot Skills, Safety, Proficiency

Article: Waking Up To Fatigue

The FAA is paying renewed attention to human fatigue in...

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Article: Telling The Truth On Your Medical

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Article: Google Earth: The Ultimate Preflight Tool

Also labeled: Flight Hazards, Flying Skills, Navigation, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: Synthetic Vision

Over the past decade, new...

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Article: Turbocharger Trouble

You may already...

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Article: X-Plane 9.0 Flight Simulator

You may...

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Article: The New Look Of GA

Just over a...

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Article: Crosswind Survival

We can all admit that, at some point, we’ve scared...

Also labeled: Flight Hazards, Flying Skills, Pilot Skills, Safety, Weather Skills

Article: Project 182, Part III

Also labeled: Maintenance, Modifications, Piston Singles

Article: Wingipedia, Part III

We’ve finally reached the...

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Article: The Accelerated Stall

The accelerated stall usually surprises a pilot...

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Article: How To Blimp

After a takeoff run of about one foot, the attitude...

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Article: Apex Edge Series KSN 770

For many years, Bendix/King (a division of...

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Article: Making ADS-B Work

When it comes to owners being told they must install expensive...

Also labeled: Aviation News, FAA Regulations

Article: Contact: Filling The Generation Gap

In the Siegfried family tree, there’s a Cub that flies from branch to branch, as each generation introduces the next to aviation. Whereas some parents pressure their kids to play piano or throw a football, the Siegfried’s child-rearing checklist rev...

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Article: The Desire To Go Lower

On February 16, 2008, the...

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Article: On A Heading For Home

I live in downtown Manhattan and like the...

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Article: High-Tech Buyer's Guide

An interesting trend has...

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Article: The Flying Siegfrieds

Every child remembers the...

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Article: Touchdowns: Pregnant Plane Delivers

On May 25, 1961,...

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Article: Cirrus Perspective

When the engineers at Cirrus Skunk Works branded the...

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Article: Pilot Career: From Dream To Reality

For the first time in...

Also labeled: Careers, Flight Schools, Getting Your License, Jobs and Schools, Learn To Fly

Article: Wings In The Wilderness

The runway lights are still on at...

Also labeled: Bush Planes, Decision Making, Features, Flight Hazards, Flying Skills, Journeys, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Safety, Travel, Backcountry Flying

Article: Tech Talk: Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology

­If there ever was a cross between a computer game and the real world, it was laid out on the panel before me. I was at the 2008 Sun ’n Fun Fly-In in...

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Article: Llamas & Condors

I was at a speaking engagement in Alaska awhile back,...

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Article: Tiger Or Demon In Your Tank?

Misfueling occurs when the wrong...

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Article: Touchdowns: Ever Upward

In the late ’50s, the Air Force...

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Article: Tight Is Right

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

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