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The Fateful Call

Photographic Logbook

With March being one of those "you never know what you're going to get" months in the wintry north, I found myself creeping forward, state to state, VFR only, and hypervigilant of weather conditions. These were days before the proliferation of AWOS/ASOS stations and the advent of ADS-B (FIS-B) weather displayed on a tablet in the cockpit. (A

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Somatogravic: All Was Well for a Pilot, and Then It Suddenly Wasn’t

Flying Magazine

After taxiing to Runway 32, he was instructed to turn to a heading of 090 after takeoff and maintain 3,000. He speculated that he might have mistakenly flipped the avionics master switch when he intended to turn off the ignitors, as he had done twice before. The weather was benign. The trip was simple.

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