IFR Magazine

• Training for Fairytales
• Stupid Pilot Tricks
• Cold, and Other Issues
• False Glideslopes
• Wake Turbulence Quiz
• Plans Change
• Icing Encounters

Perhaps just a normal regional airport, Westfield-Barnes in Massachusetts, gives us more than its share of things to consider.

You do the most comprehensive planning and review that you can. But there are times when the situation changes. Have you considered contingencies?

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.

I regularly make a 25-minute flight in my 1946 Piper Cub from our local home airport in Pella, Iowa, to a grass strip in an even smaller town, Sully, Iowa, where I walk the five blocks to the local Coffee Cup Café for lunch and almost always a slice of their most excellent pie. On […]

Today’s autopilots can arm for glideslope capture to make life easier. But, it’s possible to intercept a false glideslope if you haven’t managed flight path and autopilot correctly.

Occasionally it’s good to go back and review the basics. This quiz shares wake-turbulence information you may not know. Don’t let one catch you by surprise.

Save Those Recordings I watched a YouTube vid the other day where an obviously concerned CFI, after thanking the controller for all their support and all they do, still asked that the controller “Please mark the tapes.” The obviously task saturated and presumably annoyed controller replied with words something like, “Sir, this is the 21st […]

FAA Tackles Controller Shortage The FAA is hoping to increase the number of air traffic controller trainees by cutting some of the training for many of them. The agency says those who graduate from Air Traffic-Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI) programs at some universities and colleges no longer have to attend the FAA’s own ATC training […]

Some might say it’s because of the security imposed on airline travel. Perhaps, but where’s the evidence that GA poses a threat?