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The one time I suffered an engine failure, it was partial, not total. One cylinder’s intake valve spontaneously disassembled itself—a neat trick for a one-piece component—leaving the other five jugs to continue merrily along, albeit with some major vibration and a distinct power loss. I had plenty of altitude and enough engine power to reach […]

In the late 1970s, I was fortunate enough to spend some one-on-one time with Royal Air Force Battle of Britain hero Robert Stanford Tuck. I had worn out the pages of his biography, Fly For Your Life, and was awed by the chance to have a face-to-face conversation about flying Spitfires and Hurricanes while engaging […]

Respondents say they need to work on all aspects of flying.

For AVweb fans who are also students of music theory, from reader Mike Toews: I teach aerobatics part-time at a local flight school and received the following text from a musically inclined student who was getting frustrated with numerous booking cancellations due to weather, maintenance, scheduling issues, etc., etc. “I’m writing a song called ‘Aerobatic […]

An Alaskan pilot has been making headlines for her unique Thanksgiving tradition— air dropping turkeys to her neighbors who live off the grid. Esther Sanderlin says she’s been dropping “turkey bombs” for the last three years. Sanderlin told  local news station KTUU that the idea came to her after hearing one of her new neighbors […]

This month’s panel for planning is for a mid-1980s Cessna 172 equipped with a Garmin GNS 530W and GNS 430W, S-TEC single-axis autopilot and original round-gauge flight instruments. Its owner is ready to make the plunge into an all-glass, all-electric avionics suite and is sold on the Dynon SkyView HDX Certified suite because her experimental […]

From IFR Magazine reader Thomas Clements: I frequently fly my Saratoga from Glens Falls, New York, to Ogdensburg, New York, over the Adirondack Mountains and through several large military operating areas (MOAs). The same controllers at Boston Center work both civilian aircraft and a lot of military aircraft. Recently, as I was approaching non-towered Ogdensburg, […]

Almost all our respondents’ planes are at least safe.

From IFR Magazine reader David Brown Overheard on a flight near Daytona Beach, Florida: Daytona Approach: “King Air 1234, continue up the beach for a left base to Runway 25R.” King Air (in his best, super-deep, cool pro-pilot voice): “We’ll follow the beach for 25R. We’ve got a rookie in the right seat today, so […]

They must cover seat belts, but you’re free to go beyond that minimum. There’s no such thing as too much information.