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An experienced pilot botches a nighttime ILS to minimums. Is that all there is to it?

Carriers have the resources and the rules to do things differently and more safely. What five things can you do to fly the same way?

Youve just crashed in a remote area. You and your passengers are injured. Will you have the equipment and knowledge to survive until youre rescued?

Even airframes certified for 6 G can stand only so much. The saga of the T-34 reveals what pilots dont know about how airplanes endure high-G flight.

If humans had been meant to fly at night, they would have been given better internal gyros.

Emergency locator transmitters are slated for an overhaul. The new ones will be more expensive, but will they work better?

Finding out that your instruments or avionics dont work after youre in the clouds is too late. What you need to do before launching into the clag.

Its never a good idea to try beating a thunderstorm to your destination.

Running out of gas is inexcusable and preventable. Here are the things you need to know about fuel to get you back on the ground.

Pilots know to avoid getting behind large, heavy ones. But the wakes of smaller airplanes can be hazardous, too.