IFR Magazine

While we write this annual feature to be amusing, the intent is also to get you to consider your own actions, lest you be featured on these pages.

• ATC at OSH, Pt. 2
• ATC Saves Again
• Instrument X-C
• Learning Garmin’s TXi
• Got it Covered?
• AIM Update Quiz
• More Chart Reading

• Editor’s Log
• Unicom
• Low performance
• Checklists
• Flight Controls
• Accident Probe
• NTSB Reports
• Learning Experiences
• Squawk Box

One has only to monitor the GPS NOTAMs to conclude that our near-100 percent confidence in GPS is misplaced. Here’s a story of a real GPS outage.

In early October, the FAA announced its periodic update to the AIM. These changes are not extensive, so we’ve mixed in some general IFR questions.

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

The so-called “long” cross-country in instrument training requires three different approaches. Defining “different” and what approaches qualify has been a process.

Special VFR Great September 2023 article on Special VFR (SVFR) by Elim Hawkins. I can see how this might become a well-worn tool for VFR-only pilots and a rusty unused one for IFR pilots. As an instrument pilot in an instrument plane who’s already operating on an IFR flight plan, I would never choose the […]

Our first feel-good article on ATC saves (July 2023) was well received. Here are some more stories where a controller helped save a pilot’s butt.

While doing some pattern work recently at our small rural airport in Pella, Iowa (KPEA), I was practicing wheel landings and 3-point landings with my 1946 Piper Cub when on the CTAF I heard a local business’ Lear-45 announce their approach to the airport from 5 miles to the south. Though the corporate pilots know […]