When Asking for a Higher Altitude Can Bite You Hard
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Proficiency
Improving or maintaining your flying skills is a goal every pilot should have with each flight. Here are expert opinions on how to apply performance standards to your everyday flying.
The Insidious Killer
Sign up for our newsletter, featuring the latest news for aviation enthusiasts and pilots! A recurring theme from the NTSB and others over the years … Read More "The Insidious Killer"
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Accident Briefs: March 2018
Cessna 172 Skyhawk
2 Uninjured
Ravenna, Ohio
The flight instructor reported that, during an instructional flight, while on short final …
2 Uninjured
Ravenna, Ohio
The flight instructor reported that, during an instructional flight, while on short final …
Unlearning Decisiveness
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas and wily pilots do it. We do it in the daytime …
Colliding With Hard Truths
Flying is challenging. When I was younger and just starting out as a pilot, I wasn’t a very confident …
When Being Meticulous Isn’t Enough
If you fly behind one or two turbocharged engines, you’ll be especially interested in what happened to a Cessna T206H that was taking off from … Read More "When Being Meticulous Isn’t Enough"
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Looking For The Lights
Instrument pilots have a thing for regulatory minutia. An information morsel you’ll often hear repeated is “being able to …
Accident Briefs: January/February 2018
Mooney Airplane Co. Inc. M20TN
1 Fatal Atlantic Ocean near Atlantic City, New Jersey The commercial pilot departed Michigan on …
1 Fatal Atlantic Ocean near Atlantic City, New Jersey The commercial pilot departed Michigan on …
The Go-Around That Didn’t Go Well
How did a landing that seemed it would be so right wind up in a go-around that went so wrong? Look at the NTSB’s report … Read More "The Go-Around That Didn’t Go Well"
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We All Need To Be Weather Geeks Now
From airfactsjournal.com.
Disruption is a hot topic these days, but the 16th century had plenty of it, too. In …
