Pilot Proficiency

Rethink the Preflight

The preflight inspection is a critical phase that gives you an opportunity to make sure that everything is OK with the airplane before you lift off the ground. If everyone conducted a similar inspection of their cars, there would likely be far fewer people pulled over on the side of the road out of gas […]

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Did Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Continue Flying for Four Hours?

As the days pass, the likelihood of ever finding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370‘s black boxes grow dimmer. Searchers initially began looking for the jet in the Gulf of Thailand, the location of the Boeing 777’s last reported position. They then fanned out to the west, believing that the jetliner may have veered off course with […]

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When To Speak Up over Unicom

We’ve all cursed the guy prattling on for what seems like forever over the Unicom frequency as he supplies us with every last detail of what he’s flying, what he’s doing and what he plans to do next. Meanwhile, we can’t get a word in edgewise to let other pilots know we’ve just entered the […]

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Photos: Incredible Guesthouse Made out of Retired Airplanes

What if you could live inside an airplane? Well, one aviation enthusiast has actually made that possible. About four years ago, engineer Toshikazu Tsukii (or Ski as he is commonly known) took on the enormous project of building a guesthouse using parts of retired Boeing 707, 727, 737, 747 jets and military airplanes. Living in […]

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Crossing Borders: How-To Guide For Visiting Neighboring Countries

You may be intimidated by the thought of international flying, particularly with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Electronic Advance Passenger Information System — eAPIS — which was implemented in 2009. While you are subjected to major fines if you don’t comply, it is not a very complicated system. It simply involves an online portal […]

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FBO Spotlight: Eagle Creek Aviation Services (KEYE)

In our FBO Spotlight series, we’re highlighting FBOs around the country that have received rave reviews from our readers. This latest Spotlight is brought to you by Nick Fahim, who has recently flown into Eagle Creek Airpark Airport in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a Piper Dakota PA28-236. Here’s what he had to say about the airport’s […]

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Sky Kings: Speaking to Dangerous Pilots Differently

Most pilots who have been flying for a while know pilots who scare them. My husband, John, and I were two of those pilots. We were so wrapped up in using our airplane as a personal, fun traveling machine that we would not let anything — inexperience, nighttime, bad weather, even a rough-running engine — […]

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Action — Reaction

Newton’s third law states that for each action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This concept can be applied in the cockpit too. For each action there should be an appropriate reaction. There are many levers, knobs and buttons and it is quite easy to mistakenly grab or push the wrong one. To ensure […]

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Jumpseat: Giving Back, Airline Style

If you’re a private pilot or an airline transport pilot, it doesn’t take long to discover that the “small world” axiom is very true within the aviation community. A relationship developed years earlier can resurface in the most unlikely places. Because of that, I was given advice to never burn a bridge in my climb […]

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