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This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, April 2004. While many pilots fly only for recreation, the utility of airplanes is what drives the quest toward aircraft ownership and continued flying for most.But it is also the utility that motivates pilots to make the kinds of errors that lead to tragedy. They push into circumstances […]
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Nominate anFBO | Rules | Tips | WinningFBOs
It was so unexpected that I couldn’t help myself. I shouted out in surprise. Why in the world are you putting a navigational-beacon frequency into the ADF? “Well … uh … I thought I’d use the ADF as a back-up source of navigation during this upcoming approach,” said Laurie, my aviation major domo for the […]
Nominate anFBO | Rules | Tips | WinningFBOs
Nominate anFBO | Rules | Tips | WinningFBOs
Nominate anFBO | Rules | Tips | WinningFBOs
This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, February 2005. In the past we have studied accidents that were the result of the pilot’s lack of weather flying experience. In some of those reports we discovered that the lack of overall flying experience also contributed to the outcome.This month we are going to look at an […]
Nominate an FBO | Rules | Tips | Questions | Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Christiansen Jet Center, Tulsa at KRVS, Tulsa, OK. Offering up Christiansen, Phil Hanson told us, “Tremendous t-storm blew into Tulsa, and they put my Skylane in their hanger among the Citations, Pilatus’, etc. Staff is […]
This is the problem with being a safety rep: After a while, your perspective changes on things. Sometimes, it seems like every thing. Take this story from a recent edition of AVweb, for instance: NTSB Finding Reassessed — Case To Reopen, Decades After … When a Piedmont Airlines 727 and a Cessna 310 collided over […]
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