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Say Again? #68: ATC Programming

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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The Pilot’s Lounge #105: Flying In To AirVenture — It’s Time To Slap Around The Bozos

During this year’s repositioning of the Pilot’s Lounge from the virtual airport to the EAA convention at Oshkosh, many of our regulars and visitors again partook of a rather cynical variation of the traditional form of recreation-at-the-airport-when-we’re-not-flying: watching arriving aircraft to see stupid pilot tricks.Sadly, we saw a bunch.While the majority of arriving pilots demonstrated […]

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