Aviation Safety

The following is derived from maintenance facility submissions to the FAA’s Service Difficulty Reports database.

Dodging thunderstorms over the Everglades at night in a single. What could go wrong?

A monthly summary of recently published NTSB preliminary accident reports involving general aviation and air carrier aircraft.

Engine failure at night over mountainous terrain is one of the things that keeps us up late. Here’s why. 

What you’re checking, and why, and doing them while airborne and when running lean of peak EGT.  

You did what everyone told you not to do: fly into a thunderstorm. How will you get out the other side?

The idea is to adjust your bank angle to compensate for changing groundspeeds, which depend on your airspeed.  

Proper use of time, resources and energy can tip the scales toward a favorable outcome.

Practice makes perfect, especially when we go out to do things we don’t usually engage in for our everyday flying. 

Hover Mode Cooling Having long been a lean of peak (LOP) exhaust gas temperature (EGT) advocate (25 years), I think some further explanation to Andrew Strauss and some of your other readers about that form of mixture control might be in order (Unicom, August 2024). First of all, not everyone has mixture distribution that is […]