Flying Magazine

JULY 29, 2025

I am writing this on the airliner on the way home from a week at EAA AirVenture, the annual migration thousands make each year to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For those who wanted to turn wrenches or have a career in the cockpit, there were airlines, colleges, and universities in attendance as well. I assure you learning took place.

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Air

JUNE 17, 2025

Understanding a Visual Approach Chart VAC A Practical Guide for Pilots Every pilot remembers the feeling of approaching a familiar aerodrome: a blend of focus and comfort. To navigate safely within the controlled airspace of an aerodrome, Visual Flight Rules (VFR) pilots rely on a vital document: the Visual Approach Chart (VAC).

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AV Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Years ago, a friend who was then a training captain at a major airline, showed me a video of a pilot totally cratering an NDB approach. SecDef Hegseths avowed opposition to women in combat may mean this wont get a fair hearing, but just more political posturing. It was laughably incompetent for someone with an ATP.

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Air Facts

JULY 23, 2025

Revenge at 4,000 Feet Air Facts Journal The 19th of November, 1973, was cold and rainy at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where I was employed as a 23-year-old copilot with Skyway Airlines. The Skyway Airlines’ Beech 18s flown by the author in this story. This would necessitate an instrument approach at every stop—11 approaches in all.

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Fear of Landing

JANUARY 3, 2025

On the 25th of December 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243, a scheduled passenger flight from Baku, Azerbaijan to Grozny, Russia, crashed on approach to Aktau International Airport in Kazakhstan with 62 passengers and five crew on board. The flight crew requested an NDB approach to Grozny and were cleared for approach to runway 26.

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