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After you fly enough approaches, they all start looking pretty similar. Is that your brain working for or against you? Or both?

BasicMed was a big win for GA, but it wasn’t perfect. Gradually, some of those shortcomings are being addressed. Here’s the latest.

As the saying goes, there’s nothing older than yesterday’s newspaper. The same could be said for yesterday’s navigation data, right?

How vigilant do you need to be in special use airspace? After touring McGuire Air Force Base tower, radar approach control, and base operations, I’d say, “very.”

We all know an ILS is a precision approach. But there’s much confusion about whether an RNAV (GPS) approach to LPV minimums is. (Spoiler alert: Sometimes …)

Years after the FAA adopted the so-called ICAO flight plan for all flights, many pilots still don’t really understand what codes to put in the boxes. We can help.

Winter flying may almost be over but arctic blasts are still possible. Do you understand all the field-condition reporting jargon? After this, you will…

Some things in aviation never happen, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And, it certainly doesn’t mean you’ll never encounter them.

We continue our inside look at what it takes for ATC to manage traffic in and around Oshkosh during the annual AirVenture.

Have you flown into AirVenture? You’ve heard stories about the stressful mixed density of traffic across all performance levels with pilots of widely varying skills. In this first of two articles I’ll explore what it takes to control all that traffic in 10 days. The ATC planning for AirVenture is extensive and nearly never stops. […]