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Experience in the Chair: Guiding a Twin Beech Home

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MAY 7, 2025

The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. The longest runways had front course and back course ILS (Instrument Landing Systems) and an on-field VOR that provided navigation and approach capabilities for aircraft on instrument flights.

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Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment

What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack (Part II)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The instructor wrote, “As far as my proficiency with the existing weather conditions, I was comfortable, current, and proficient. If the runway could not be made my plan was to put the aircraft down in the field west of the airport close to the VOR. The scenario was that the pilot was returning due to weather.

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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot

Experience in the Chair: Guiding a Twin Beech Home

What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack (Part II)

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