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Fly the Airplane

Plane and Pilot

1 cause of general aviation accidents remains loss of control (LOC). However, these preventable accidents can happen anywhere in our aviation world. In the old days of VOR and ADF, we just turned knobs and pushed a few buttons. In the airline world a one-head-down, one-head-up philosophy divides the workload.

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Installing Starlink in a Cirrus Aircraft: A Comprehensive Guide

Flying Magazine

Legality and Compliance According to Starlinks official guidance, for smaller General Aviation aircraft or for aircraft that we do not have an STC for yet, Starlink Mini may be used as a Portable Electronic Device (PED), on the interior of an aircraft only. 1D Use of Portable Electronic Devices Aboard Aircraft.

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Are There Consequences for Declaring an Emergency in Flight?

Flying Magazine

mandates when notification is requiredsuch as the failure of a cockpit instrument aboard an airliner, which is not terribly uncommon, but because the nature of the crewed environment is not as critical as it is for a single-pilot operation. It is part of the airline company operating procedures. Although NTSB 830.5

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Ten Types of Aviation Maintenance Checks

Northstar VFR

Every airline/operator must establish a Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP). These required inspections are vitally important to the safe operation of general aviation aircraft, so even student pilots are required to know the basics to pass a Private Pilot checkride.

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CEO Of The Cockpit: The Good Old Days

AV Web

If you discount the fact that it is missing a flight director, autopilot, and autothrottles, my airplane is better equipped than most airliners I have flown. We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. I pulled out my backup lawn chair, opened it, and asked him to sit with me in the shade for a while.

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Class B Airspace Explained

Pilot Institute

You’ll always find a steady stream of airliners queued up for departure and arrival. Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. Due to its high elevation, Denver’s Class B airspace extends up to 12,000 feet MSL to give airliners room to descend.

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Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 1, Of PINs and Prop Locks

Photographic Logbook

Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. Although 9/11 marked the weaponization of commercial aircraft, the aftereffects are felt most keenly by General Aviation.