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Article: Improving Search And Rescue

As of mid-2012, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Satellite Operations Center in Suitland, Md., had about 355,000 of the newer 406 MHz emergency beacons registered in its SARSAT database.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, Columns, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Safety

Article: No Ghosts In The Air…No Privacy, Either!

After speaking with people in a position to know how the system works, now I can confirm that ADS-B won't make U.S. airspace less secure—far from it. ...

Also labeled: Aviation News, Avionics, Features

Article: Monoplane Revolution

In 1984, I trained with air show pilot Duane Cole at Luck Field in Burleson, Texas, for the Intermediate category of the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships. ...

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Columns, Features, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills

Article: The Eyes Have It

We're about to kick the sacred cow that is peripheral vision right in the butt and, in the process, probably generate a bunch of letters to the editor. ...

Also labeled: Decision Making, Features, Flight Training, Learn To Fly, Learning Center, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills

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, Flying Skills, Pilot Skills

Article: Counting On The Instructor

A student may show an initial tendency to move the bar in the direction of the desired turn.

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Article: A Summer Of Opportunity

After going to an air show in Canada and a competition in Wisconsin in 1983, I knew that flying aerobatics was what I was meant to do.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Columns, Features, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Minimal Experience

Browse through the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), and you'll see specifications for experience in many areas of piloting.

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Article: Risky Business

How risky is your next flight? ...

Also labeled: Decision Making, Features, Flying Skills, Safety

Article: When Close Friends Get Too Close

One of the great things about aviation is that people are drawn together by this unique avocation as if they were members of a fraternity or sorority. ...

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, Columns, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Kenya

I love early mornings in Tsavo. ...

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Article: The Way Of Active Winglets

Fortunately, airplanes don't deal much in real mousetraps, but every once in a while, someone comes along and invents a better one.

Also labeled: Aircraft Upgrades, Features, Gadgets, Modifications, Safety

Article: The Reno Accident

The chances are minimal that most pilots will ever find themselves in the same circumstances as did James "Jimmy" Leeward on September 16, 2011. ...

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, Columns, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Clouds

Recently, I came across The Cloud Appreciation Society.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Columns, Features, Learning Center, Pilot Skills

Article: Adequate Airspeed

We've just about come to the end of another year in which the NTSB continued to fill its files with accident reports that read suspiciously like many of the thousands it already has on file.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, Columns, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Safety

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, Flying Skills, Learn To Fly, Pilot Guide, 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, Flying Skills, Learn To Fly, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: Chasing Fires

Rush, Serpentine, Robbers and Mill are names of some of the fires I've flown. Fires are usually named after a geographical landmark at the origin of the fire—a road, town, river or a creek.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Columns, Features, Guest Speaker, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

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, Flying Skills, Learn To Fly, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills

Article: Amateur-Built Safety

According to the NTSB, although the approximately 33,000 experimental amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft make up about 10% of the U.S.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, Columns, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Proficiency

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, Flying Skills, Pilot Skills, Proficiency

Article: Being Resourceful

If one thing serves us well in life and in aviation, it's the art of being resourceful—intelligent and creative problem solving and making the best use of time and available resources.

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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, Flying Skills, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: When Using NEXRAD Can Be Dangerous

Today, more information than ever before is being made available to pilots, both in printed and electronic formats.

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Article: Pre-Aerobatics

This summer, I've had the good fortune to fly OV-10 Broncos out of the Chico Air Attack Base.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Columns, Features, Learning Center, Pilot Skills

Article: Lightning Enlightenment

On April 13, 2012, United Airlines flight 930, a Boeing 777, took off from San Francisco International Airport en route to London.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, Columns, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Proficiency

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, Flying Skills, Pilot Guide, Pilot Skills, Safety

Article: 30 Things Not To Do In The Pattern

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

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Article: Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

When I'm signing autographs on the flight line, people like to tell me their stories about flying.

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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, Flying Skills, Learn To Fly, Pilot Skills