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In 2002, I did something unfortunate: pulled a perfectly good cylinder off of one of the engines of my Cessna T310R. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t have touched the cylinder. But at the time, I thought I was doing the right thing.It was the usual story. I had just downed […]

New York Cirrus Accident Analysis Regarding the Lidle accident, the Oct. 16 AVwebFlash stated that, “Some analysts suggested gusty winds blowing between the Manhattan skyscrapers contributed to the accident, but winds were out of the east and Manhattan’s skyscrapers were to the aircraft’s west.”Wind certainly did have a lot to do with the Lidle accident, […]

My nephew Kermit and I rarely miss a movie that has flying in it. We’ve watched classics like “Islands in the Sun” and endured dogs like “Pearl Harbor” but we’ve always enjoyed each other’s company and popcorn at the movies.During one of my days off last week, I took Kermit to see the highly hyped […]

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I was reading a description of a pilot’s actions as he was programming his GPS the other day. It didn’t take me long to get lost. Press this button, go to that page, turn this dial. Pretty soon I found myself wondering, “Who’s flying the airplane during all this?” It sure seemed complicated.I’m sure it […]

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Solar Flares Your story says, “Right now that’s not a problem because the sun is in a quiet phase, but it’s expected to get active again in 2011,” (AVwebFlash, Oct. 2).I believe that, if you check sources, you will find that we are now in a period when activity is increasing and will continue to […]

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, June 2005. Remember the old saying, “Fly the airplane first?” Your flight instructors probably mentioned it to you when you were dividing your attention among several things that were going on in the cockpit at the same time. If you allow your attention be drawn away from monitoring […]