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Flying Magazine
JULY 29, 2025
There is something about being surrounded by pilots and aviation enthusiasts that reenergizes your passion for aviation. In a nutshell, it’s the biggest thing to hit the aviation landscape since 2004, when the sport pilot/light sport aircraft (LSA) rule was published. I was one of those CFIs. I assure you learning took place.
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. What Exactly Is a Visual Approach Chart? VOR , NDB). But what happens when the destination is new? A vital safety procedure.
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Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Flying under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) can, at times, feel like deciphering a complicated puzzle, especially when you’re staring at an approach chart filled with intricate details. Approach charts, often referred to as approach plates, become your guide when visual cues are scarce. What Is an IFR Approach Chart?
Pilot Institute
JUNE 9, 2025
Holding procedures often leave many prospective IFR pilots in a cold sweat. Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. If it is obvious that the bad weather is transitory, air traffic control may ask approaching aircraft to take up a holding pattern while the weather subsides.
Flying Magazine
JULY 1, 2025
This phrase was uttered by a DPE who, reviewing the logbook of a private pilot applicant, noted that one of the flights logged as a cross-country came up a little short. For sport pilots and rotorcraft, the distance required for a flight to be logged as cross-country time is 25 nm.
Air Facts
JULY 23, 2025
My duties at Skyway included flying as copilot on the Beech 99 and Beech 18, as well as pilot-in-command on the single-engine airplanes. Jerry had been my chief pilot and multi-engine instructor at an FBO in Springfield, Missouri, where we both worked prior to our employment at Skyway. And yes, Jerry repeated the stunt on every leg.
AV Web
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
This followed a controversial accident in which one of the Navys first F-14 fighter pilots, Kara Hultgreen, was killed trying to get aboard a carrier for routine qualifications. The fact that the command pilot of the Blackhawk was a woman may give pretext, whether true or not. The pilot was a woman.
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