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Article: Get The Most Out Of Winter Part 2
Read the owner’s manuals for...
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...
Article: The NASA Report: Looking For Absolution
Before you ask, yes, I’ve...
Article: Learn To Fly!
Learning how to fly means, among...
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...
Article: Prime Time For Icing
The first hints of warmer weather can cause a sigh of...
Article: The Ultimate Preflight
The operative word there is “almost.” “Almost zero”...
Article: Got Insurance? Are You Sure?
A pilot rents an airplane...
Article: 10 Fast Fixes For Lousy Landings
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...
Article: WAAS Up?!
Lately, several new acronyms have entered the GPS field; most...
Article: When The Propeller Stops Propelling
There aren’t many m...
Article: New Instrument Rating?
Congratulations! I heard that you called from...
Article: Winter Flying: A Strategic Approach
Winter...
Article: The FAA’s Capstone Project
General aviation in Alaska is different. Changeable weather and difficult...
Article: Chelton's Magic Boxes
Before they were booted up, the ...
Article: VMC Vs. VFR
In basic flight training, student pilots memorize the cloud clearance and visibility...
Article: Soloing At 14 Years Old
Jamail Larkins took his first...
Article: Severe Weather Flying
Article: What’s RVSM?
The problem was simple: too many airplanes and too little sky. This flies in the face of traditional wisdom...
Article: Designing Your Flight Review
Like many newly minted instructor pilots, my first “dual g...
Article: Synthetic Vision
For instrument flight, the glass panels that are increasingly common in...
Article: Get The Balance Right
It was 1985, and I was refueling a Cessna 425 Conquest I at Tenerife in the Canary Islands on my way to Johannesburg, South Africa. I’d i...
Article: Myth Bustin'
Right up front I should post a very clear caveat: Myths within any technological field almost always have a grain of, if not truth, at least enough...
Article: Icing Folklore
Icing is already a terribly complex topic without the many old wives’ tales and rules of thumb making it even more...
Article: Cockpit Career Update Part 1: Is Now The Time To Prepare For An Airline Job?
After September 11, pilot careers ...
Article: Aviation Careers Outside The Cockpit
Not everyone who loves airplanes wants to be a pilot. Obviously, there’s much more to...
Article: Worst-Case Weather Scenarios
There is absolutely no excuse for...
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...
Article: The 10 Dumbest Things Pilots Do
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