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Petite-Panel IFR

You’re in IMC and the electrics start to fade — lots of clouds, no-coms, iffy navigation — what else could go wrong? As one of AVweb’s own recently discovered, you could lose your vacuum instruments as well. Features Editor Scott Puddy recounts a heart-stopping moment and discusses how you can keep the dirty side down […]

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Icing – Taking Adequate Precautions

The FAA’s Airport and Aircraft Safety Research and Development Division, Aircraft Safety Research and Development Branch, issued a fact sheet on September 6, 2000, which begins: “Aircraft icing continues to be one of the major safety threats to aircraft operations during hazardous weather conditions and can result in catastrophic accidents unless adequate precautions are taken.” […]

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Aviation News

Territorial Limitations – Coverage Territory for Major Insurers

Think you’ve got everything you need for that Caribbean trip? Looked up that insurance policy, just to make sure? Be careful — your insurer’s definition of “the Caribbean” may not include the particular island to which you’re flying. Tom Chappel of CS&A Aviation Insurance discusses the variety of ways insurers define their coverage area. In […]

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Aviation News

Smokin’ Cousin: The Cirrus SR22

Seems like everybody wants to strap a larger engine onto a successful aircraft design and call it “improved.” But when Cirrus Design was ready to develop a step-up model after its very successful SR20, they knew they wanted to do more than just add some horsepower. AVweb’s Dave Higdon shows that, while you might mistake […]

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Features

Mike Nolan

Michael Nolan was born October 24,1949, in Van Nuys, Calif. His first flight was in a PSA DC-4 out of Burbank,Calif., and he was hooked instantly. He learned to fly in late ’68 while he wasa student at L.A. Valley college, soloed on March 1, ’69, then earned a two-yeardegree from Fullerton College and studied […]

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The Pilot’s Lounge #46:
In Defense of Precision

The pilot’s lounge relocated a bit to the south, while I spent some time doing volunteer flying in a Cessna 206 for LightHawk, the airborne conservation organization. LightHawk does most of its work in the U.S., but assists in efforts in Central America during the winter. My rotation was in the country of Belize. I’ve […]

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Far from Proficient

What would you do if you thought that you had an electrical system failure and a vacuum system failure at the same time in a single-engine airplane? The chances of that happening are pretty slim, but the pilot of a Cessna T210 was convinced that he had both failures at the same time while flying […]

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Insurance Concerns When Traveling Outside the United States

Many of our clients travel outside the U.S. on both business and pleasure. Some utilize their privately-owned aircraft and others take the friendly skies of the commercial airlines. Many plan their trips without a thought for the consequences if a disaster occurs. American travelers are so accustomed to the way we do business in the […]

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Bob Griffin

Robert Griffin was born July 30,1924, on a farm near Saint John, Wash. He grew up on another farm near Pullman,Wash., took his first flight with his father and identical-twin brother in aBoeing Mailplane, and learned to fly during high school in a J-3 Cub. After hisfirst year of college, Bob attended a presentation by […]

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