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Aviation has been in the news for too many of the wrong reasons of late. I happened to be flying in April when the first radar and radio outage made waves.
On a recent flight with an instructor, operating a new-to-me aircraft type, I was once again reminded that mistakes happen, even to the best pilots, and also to the best air traffic controllers.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 horror novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has intrigued readers and movie audiences for more than a century.
Many checklists and instrument approach procedures come with notes. These notes appear within the checklists in your aircraft's flight manual, and they are displayed in a box just under the frequency, course, and elevation box on an instrument approach procedure chart.
When etching contrails over the oceans and other remote areas of the world, airline pilots monitor a pair of VHF frequencies. One is the emergency frequency, 121.5 MHz. The other is a discrete air-to-air frequency used to exchange pilot reports and information with other flights.
YouTube isn’t necessarily one of the valuable resources that pilots routinely use for preflight planning, flight training, or proficiency, but there are certainly some great channels that might be helpful to you.
John T. Molloy’s book Dress for Success theorized that as people will judge you by how you dress—and treat you accordingly—you should dress for how you want to be treated.
Recently, after ferrying an aircraft from Northeast Florida to Southwest Florida, I was reminded of how complex, constrained, and potentially dangerous the lower altitudes of our airspace have become. This story is offered to readers as a cautionary tale.
If you currently operate an aircraft that has one of Gogo Business Aviation’s “legacy” inflight connectivity systems installed (ATG 5000, 4000, 2000 or 1000), you should note that Gogo is migrating its air-to-ground (ATG) network to LTE (long-term evolution) technology and anyone operating an aircraft with a “legacy” Gogo system will be impacted and needs to take action.
Two-pilot crews are structured to provide safeguards far more extensive than the obvious redundancy of having a second body in the cockpit if the first falls ill.
It’s a simple six-letter word set in bold italics in the FAA’s Pilot/Controller Glossary—that Rosetta Stone-type appendix found in the back of most FAR/AIM manuals.
Well-meaning people who have the gift of memorization have inflicted we less fortunate with the gift of acronyms, the bane of student pilots for generations. The sheer number of acronyms in aviation and flight training is stunning. Flight instructors teach them, pilot examiners test them, and students memorize them, but do we really learn and understand the what, why, and how behind them?
The student pilot is dutiful but driving me nuts. He makes every possible call as he plies the pattern. The crosswind turn. Then the downwind. The downwind midfield. The base. The final. The on-the-go. Crosswind again. Downwind…
I know how you learned the alphabet. It was that song, wasn't it? What's more, I'd bet five gallons of 100LL that you can still sing it. And other than that you spent half your childhood thinking that el-meno-pee was a single letter. It worked out pretty well.
Communicating with air traffic controllers can be intimidating, especially for students and rusty pilots. Fortunately, we have some useful tools at our disposal.
Like most pilots who began climbing the ladder to a turbine cockpit a few decades ago, it took me years to earn enough money to cover the costs of my private, commercial, and airline transport pilot certificates, as well as my instructor certificates.
My transition from the left seat of a Cessna Citation 550 to the captain’s cushion on a Citation 650 was like the switch from summer weather to winter.
In May, Gogo Business Aviation announced it will launch the first global broadband service in business aviation to use an electronically steered antenna (ESA) to connect to a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network.
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