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From IFR Magazine reader Chris St. Germain On a nice fall afternoon, I was returning to my home airport after a Missouri Pilots Association board meeting. I heard Kansas City Center give a fellow member who was 10 minutes ahead of me a traffic advisory as we were nearing Kansas City: Center: “Warrior 1234, be […]
The most respondents favored shooting them down near military sites.
There’s good news in the flight training community: Fatality rates are improving. Aviation Safety magazine took a look at the statistics.
From an IFR Magazine reader – Name withheld by request I am based at a non-towered field and some days it is more “uncontrolled” than others. Finishing up my flight review the other day, my instructor and I heard a traffic call that went something like this: “Small City Traffic, Piper Three Six Alpha Charlie […]
Most of us have never issued a Mayday, but a significant number have done it more than once.
There are plenty of Beech Barons flying around with aging analog autopilots and iron gyro flight instruments. Dynon Avionics is setting to change that with a fresh STC for the Dynon digital flight control system with the SkyView HDX Certified avionics suite. In this Aviation Consumer Panel Planner 101 feature, Larry Anglisano takes a look […]
From AVweb reader Eliot Danner: Flying with a friend in my Baron from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Winchester Regional Airport (KOKV) in Virginia, it was a pop-up thunderstorm kinda day. Potomac Approach was dealing with a storm cell over Dulles International and various diversions, issuing holds to long-haul jets—the usual circus. Me (after waiting for […]
About a third say it interests them.
Garmin was at AirVenture 2024 with a handful of vintage airplanes loaded with the latest avionics—and ones with far more capability than stock. Garmin says these old airplanes are safer for it, but Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano is skeptical. He sat down with Garmin’s Kyle Ludwick to flesh it out.
If you think the high-priced GPS navigator in your airplane is bulletproof, think again. Spoofing by altering the WAAS GPS position is a growing problem that we should all be ready for at any time. Sister publication IFR Magazine recently explained some real-world issues to look for.
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