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Every pilot will tell you that summer flying is very different from aviating in the winter months. Wasps in the pitot tubes are absent in January. There are no chunks of airframe ice keeping your stabilizer from working during July; and in the Northern Hemisphere, your gloves will never freeze to a jetway as you […]

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Twin & Turbine, Jan. 2004, and is reprinted here by permission. Whether you’re cruising the Rockies or the Appalachians, mountain flying is a spectacular way to enjoy the benefits of an aircraft. Unfortunately, many pilots think of the mountains as a “no-fly zone.” Some aviators go out of […]

You saunter out to the mailbox expecting the usual: a utility bill or two a few pieces of junk mail, another credit-card statement that produces a mild state of depression; and, thankfully, a Victoria’s Secret catalog that at least momentarily dissipates the thought that the cost of your flight training has brought you to the […]

Pinnacle Crash Thank you for posting the various links regarding the Pinnacle crash (NewsWire, Jun. 16). As a CRJ captain myself, I find all information on the subject to be a matter of my own professional safety. That said, I have to ask why there is a 20-minute gap on the CVR reported in the […]

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If you’ll remember, last month I left you hanging over the Snowbird VOR, in the clouds, with no radio communication. This month’s task is to get back on the ground. Let’s review.Here’s the flight plan we filed: N12345C172/A110 kts.Dep. KHKY (Hickory, N.C.) 6,000 feetHKY..BZM.V20.SUG.V185.SOT.V136.VXV..TYSArr. KTYS (Knoxville, Tenn.) And here is a low-altitude en route chart […]

N.Y. TRACON and the FAA Report I am really surprised at the report released about the abuse in the N.Y. TRACON (NewsWire, Jun. 6). I just have one think to say: They have to stop blaming the controller and look at management. Management approves all the overtime, not NATCA. So if they’re approving it, must […]

A recent story in one of the big aviation glossies on the supposed advantages of piston-engine FADEC has sparked a storm of discussion among several user groups on my radar. The discussion, as it often does within these forums, eventually boiled down into an interesting philosophical debate about engine management. Are we, as pilots, too […]

General aviation should be poised to enjoy a Golden Age. Exciting new technologies are appearing almost every day. And with airline travel becoming less convenient and more humiliating, business travelers are turning to general aviation as never before. As a result airplane sales are up and the general aviation business is booming.But general aviation’s financial […]