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In the first part of this series we focused on what you needed to know before you set out for Oshkosh. This second part focuses on what you need to know once you’ve arrived. Fly-In Parking Information Fly-in campers at AirVenture this year should call the telephone recording, 920-232-7820, or check the web page with […]

Perhaps there can be some good to come out of the nearly hysterical news reports on high-profile fatalities in 2001, and that is to become totally aware of all the things you can do to be safer from a maintenance, training, and an optional-equipment perspective. The concepts of safe, legal, and smart also apply here, […]

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 […]

If you have ever gone to the store for a pound of butter and returned with a quart of milk, a gallon of ice cream, a carton of eggs, a loaf of bread, a bag of potato chips, and a box of cereal — but no butter — you are a candidate for a gear-up […]

Parallax occurs when you view an instrument — or any other object — from an angle so that the instrument indication is distorted. The severity of parallax depends on the extent of the gap between the instrument pointer and the instrument face and the angle from which you are viewing the instrument. CFIs in aircraft […]

My passions are skiing, flying and flying to skiing destinations as a way to combine the first two. My fly/ski destination of choice is the Truckee Tahoe Airport (TRK) in Truckee, California, a GA facility nestled in the southern end of a valley in the central Sierras, 15 miles from Squaw Valley. Squaw Valley averages […]

As AVweb recently reported, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a Safety Recommendation to FAA Administrator Jane Garvey on September 24 suggesting that action be taken to address inadequate responses by air traffic controllers to emergencies relating to VFR flight into IMC and instrument or vacuum system failures. Although it is clear from the […]

You are an experienced pilot and you are about to tackle a tough winter flight in your Bugsmasher II which (except for pitot heat, carburetor heat, and a 5-inch by 7-inch “storm window”) has no icing protection. Being inexact as usual, the area forecast calls for occasional light to moderate rime and mixed icing in […]

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.” […]

I‘ve flown with a number of CFIs over the years. I’ve always claimed that every CFI, regardless of experience and style, has something to teach every pilot. At least, that had been my experience up until one day recently. It was then that I had to do something I’d never done before. I had to […]