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From AVweb reader Ed Fix: Nearly 20 years ago, I was flying Angel Flight trips for people whohad to travel for non-emergency medical treatment. These peoplegenerally had to travel long distances multiple times per year, and ourvolunteer flights helped mitigate the expense for them. One time, I picked up an elderly gentleman at Lunken (Ohio) airport, […]

There are still plenty of analog strobe light systems installed, some intermittent and others completely inoperative. While limited troubleshooting effort might be in order to determine if a fix is simple, we think you should use caution with old systems because the money might be better spent on either a drop-in replacement (we covered them […]

I once had the opportunity to fly my vintage V-tail Bonanza to Washington-Dulles International Airport to report on the opening of a Signature Flight Support facility there. So, you can tell this was a long time ago. I can’t remember if I had filed IFR, but the weather was perfect, so maybe I was on […]

About 7% never look at them.

The Jim Richmond Backcountry Aviation Foundation (JRBAF) announced a new partnership with Patagonia Bush Pilots, allowing U.S. pilots the opportunity to train and fly in the Patagonia region of South America. Founded in July 2024, JRBAF was established to honor Jim Richmond’s legacy by expanding access to backcountry flying. As the founder of CubCrafters, Richmond […]

The instructor looked at me out of the corner of her eye and said, “Okay, you try the cyclic, I’ve got the collective and the pedals.” I hadn’t flown a helicopter for almost 10 years, and I really didn’t know how much I remembered. We went through the usual three-step exchange of flight controls. “You […]

This article first appeared in the Aviation Safety Magazine. It was a fun hangar-flying session, right up until one of the local instructors got serious for a moment. He warned us that the tower at a local Class D airport was “issuing a pilot deviation a week, so have your NASA forms ready.” The alleged […]

Most respondents say armchair accident analysis is harmful.

Being aviation professionals, we need to train for what is possible, even if it seems unlikely. It’s the things you least expect that inevitably will happen. If you’re not ready for them, you’ll definitely struggle. The Unicorn Clearance It was a quiet morning—the pondering kind. There weren’t many planes, maybe four, in my low-altitude sector […]

From IFR Magazine reader Daniel Spitzer My copilot Daniel and I were inbound to New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport in our Embraer Praetor 500. Our arrival was during a busy time for one of the busiest GA airports in the world. In the middle of continuous rapid-fire transmissions on Newark Approach, ATC instructed us, “84 Papa […]