Flight Safety
AVweb’s Flight Safety section offers in-depth coverage of aviation safety topics, including accident analyses, risk management strategies, regulatory updates, and pilot training insights. Designed for pilots, instructors, and aviation professionals, this section provides timely information to enhance situational awareness and promote best practices in flight operations.
Probable Cause #16: Peer-Pressurized
This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, July 2004. Pilots must often deal with a wide range of competing emotions and pressures when faced with less-than-ideal conditions for a planned flight. These can range from doubts about one’s skills and proficiency for the planned flight, to mechanical problems with the aircraft and to adverse weather. […]
CEO of the Cockpit #62: Garden Party
I don’t usually travel by boat, but I found myself crossing the rough waters of a Midwestern, middle-size lake. I was on my way to a friend and co-pilot’s 50th birthday party. It was to be held on the hallowed picnic grounds once cavorted upon by this person’s forebears and ancestors. A sort-of old-time, traditionally […]
FBO of the Week: Twin Cities Air Service (KLEW, Auburn, ME)
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Probable Cause #15: IFR & Meds — A Deadly Mix
This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, March 2005. Though you may possess a valid medical certificate, as an FAA-licensed pilot you are expected to ground yourself whenever you do not meet the standards of that certificate. When a pilot has a bad cold or some other similar ailment, and especially if he or she […]
FBO of the Week: Beck’s Helena U-Pump
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