Helpful Suggestions
Aviation seems to promote camaraderie among many of those who relish being part of this unique affinity group.
View ArticleDo As We Say, Not As We Do
Over the years, you've no doubt heard urgings from various government agencies to always pay careful attention to the weather when you're in flying mode. ...
View ArticleSharing The Sky
Although birds will take evasive action to avoid us, and lights can make us more conspicuous, there are times when their and our best efforts aren't good enough. ...
View ArticleWhen Using NEXRAD Can Be Dangerous
Today, more information than ever before is being made available to pilots, both in printed and electronic formats.
View ArticleAmateur-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.
View ArticleAdequate 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.
View ArticleThe 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. ...
View ArticleWhen 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. ...
View ArticleMinimal Experience
Browse through the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), and you'll see specifications for experience in many areas of piloting.
View ArticleCounting On The Instructor
A student may show an initial tendency to move the bar in the direction of the desired turn.
View ArticleImproving 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...
View ArticleSafety Alerts
Rather than just hand-wringing at the inability of general aviation to bring its accident rates in line with those of the scheduled airlines, the NTSB is trying to cajole and educate pilots and others...
View ArticlePilots Popping Pills
I recently stumbled across the study, which was sponsored by the FAA's Office of Aerospace Medicine. I don't recall hearing about it when it was completed in May of 2006. ...
View ArticleEngine-Out Landings
If I were to declare that an approach and landing in a twin-engine airplane with one engine inoperative is essentially the same as a two-engine approach and landing. ...
View ArticleHistoric Replicas
Aviation has a rich and colorful past and, over the years, many people have made noteworthy contributions to help keep history alive.
View ArticleSetting Stabilized Approach Criteria
When Asiana Airlines flight 214 crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013, it became apparent very quickly that the Boeing 777 wasn't stabilized during the final portion of its...
View ArticleThe Weather Picture
The program that data shows isn't needed, according to the AOPA/EAA exemption petition, is the third-class medical requirement for pilots who fly day/VFR for recreation. ...
View ArticleClues From Survivors
Survivors don't always remember very much about an accident. In some cases, memory is affected by the body going into shock or receiving physical injury. ...
View ArticleThe Slippery Slope Of OSA
By now you know about the FAA's fascination with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) testing for pilots and controllers.
View ArticleThe Stall Warning System
Whether it's a comparatively simple system (a leading-edge vane operates a switch to complete an electrical circuit and sound a horn or illuminate a bulb), or a complex system (which generates signals...
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