IFR Magazine

These reports of near midair collisions, NMACs, should be deeply frightening to any pilot. The pilots’ experiences strongly suggest more vigilance and, ultimately, increased safety. Nose-to-Nose The pilot briefly looked down to scan the instruments and gauges. When she looked up, there was an airplane right in front of her—she could see faces, wheels … […]

• Two Up, Two Down
• Nail The Speed=Good Landing
• Who Changed Your Route?
• How’s Your Scan?
• Right Approach Speeds
• Flight Plan Route
• Quiz: Comms
• Near Midair Collisions
• Done That lately?
• Brief Like a Forecaster

• Editor’s Log
• Unicom
• VFR Into IMC
• Stop The Rush
• Roll The Equipment
• What’s Wrong With This Picture?
• Accident Probe
• NTSB Reports
• Learning Experiences
• Quick Turns

You can fly a lot of IFR these days without encountering anything but GPS approaches with LPV minimums. In this challenge, you’ll fly departures and approaches at two airports where the procedures required are anything but standard. Better brief them well so the gotchas don’t getcha. Use whatever airplane you like for this challenge, as […]

FAA Studying Unleaded Gas Transition The FAA temporarily stopped its investigation into whether Santa Clara County in California is violating grant agreements by refusing to sell leaded gasoline at the county’s Reid Hillview and San Martin Airports. In exchange, the county has agreed to consider taking part in a study into the transition process from […]

Can I Get That Sim? I am a long-time subscriber to IFR who is interested in getting more information on Ryan Koch’s DIY flight simulator shown in the lower left-hand corner of page 14 of your December 2022 issue:  1. the avionics components in this simulator (appears to have dual Garmin G5s, a Garmin GTN […]

Recently, my mechanic showed me the list of squawks I’d told him about in recent texts, phone calls, and even e-mails. At the top of the list, he’d added one important item, “Fix Frank.” In over 30 years of aircraft ownership, I’ve always tried to work with my mechanics to give them flexibility in the […]

It’s not exactly a bad time of year to fly from Texas to New Mexico, but spring can bring fluctuating ceilings and local winds that like to be unpredictable. But at least it’s before the real heat kicks in. Still, this’ll be a more challenging flight plan in which a weather briefing and charts won’t […]

You can think of your sim like a desktop operating system: By itself, it’s not extremely useful; only when you install third-party applications on top of it are you truly enabled to do real work. Same is true for X-Plane. The fact is most simulators rely on a vast array of third-party add-ons to provide […]