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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.

Recent Proficiency Stories

How to sound like Captain Sully while you’re avoiding costly mistakes.
Frank Ayers
High Desert Flying. Illustration by Gabriel Campanario
ProficiencyLessons Learned: High Desert Flying In A Cessna 150Joel Nordness
Flight training plane in a hangar
ProficiencyFlight Training in an Interrupted WorldChris Erlanson
Dangers of Vmc
ProficiencyRisk: The Dangers of VmcKevin Kennedy
Know when to call it a day. Image courtesy of Gabriel Campanario
ProficiencyLessons Learned: Know When To Call It A DayScott H. Brown
Third-Class Medical Versus BasicMed
ProficiencyThird-Class Medical Versus BasicMedDr. Pierre J. Moeser
A Cessna 210 Descending
ProficiencyPro Tips For Private Pilots: Descend Like A Jet JockeyFrank Ayers
That Year Our Plane Was The Only One That Made It To OSH
ProficiencyLessons Learned: That Year Our Plane Was The Only One That Made It To OSHW. David Pond
Get a handle on turbulence.
ProficiencyGet A Handle On TurbulenceGary Deck
Aeronca 7AC Champion
ProficiencyPractice Tailwheel Airplane Skills In A Nosewheel AirplaneGary Deck
Lake Amphibian illustration by Gabriel Campanario
ProficiencyLessons Learned: A Seaplane Pilot‘s Wilderness Fishing Flight Gets Weathered InJack Ciulla
Preparing for flying emergencies
Pilot SkillsThinking About Flying Emergencies Before They HappenLeRoy Cook
Pilot practice plan
Pilot SkillsRusty Pilot Practice PlanLeRoy Cook

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