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On an a typical IFR day on the East coast of Florida, I heard a Piper Cherokee check in with Miami Center… Cherokee N123: Miami Center, Cherokee N123 at 4000, ATIS for Palm Beach.Miami Center: Cherokee N123, maintian 4000.Cherokee: Center, I’ll need to get lower to land at Palm Beach.Center: Cherokee N123, let me see […]

Pelican’s Perch #80: Gear-Up Landing In A 747? – (Articles – Nov. 21, 2004) You know the cliche: There are two kinds of retractable-gear pilots in the world – those who have landed gear-up, and those who will. AVweb’s John Deakin is back with his Pelican’s Perch column, and relates his own heavy-jet gear-up story. […]

As a result of my AVweb columns and some of the groundschools I’m teaching, I have several old books available in reprinted form. They might seem expensive, but they are in full color, just like the originals. Color duplication is expensive, but schematics and diagrams lose a great deal without color. I sell these at […]

F-16 Didn’t Attack School Corrections to your story on the F-16 in New Jersey (NewsWire, Nov. 8): “… school was not in session Wednesday night when a National Guard F-16 …” It belongs to the Air National Guard. The National Guard might infer the Army National Guard. There is a difference. “… fired on Little […]

I flew a Piper Arrow recently from Anoka, Minnesota, to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Somewhere near the Pittsburg Class Bravo airspace we were getting traffic advisories… Approach: Baron N###, traffic is a Piper Arrow at 11 o’clock, 2 miles. his response……. Thanks Pittsburg, we already have him on the fishfinder.

As I was casting about for something to write about this month I came across the Air Traffic Bulletin at the FAA’s Web site. The FAA issues these bulletins on a regular basis and controllers are supposed to read them (the hard copy versions) during our normal duties. Most of us do (sooner or later) […]

VFR On Top A word of caution to those flying VFR on top (NewsWire, Nov. 1): Using the cloudbank as the horizon can be misleading. All too often, you can encounter cloudbanks that are slanted significantly.Joel Premselaar Two ex-military pilots noticed a big, filed out nick in the prop of their Cessna before take off […]

Another Airbus story…There is a certain airline that flies Airbus A319s out of Lindberg. The following was overheard there recently… Controller: Roger [A319], turn left heading 140. A319: (No answer) Controller: [A319], Left turn, please. Now make the heading 120. Good rate, please. A319: Ah, Departure, the airplane won’t let us do that. (pause) Controller: […]