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Here are three upgrade options that can improve a turboprop’s safety, performance, and ease of operation.

Beechcraft 58 Baron Cold-Weather Failure While at cruise altitude of 14,000 feet on a very cold day, the Garmin G500 panel flagged the airspeed, altitude, AIS and OAT; heading and horizon were all “X’d” out. Loss of all data from the AHARS (p/n GDC74A). Pilot used the backup instruments to complete the flight. Whenever cold, […]

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When your instrument ticket was brand new your skills were ultra-sharp. But over time, winter doldrums, aircraft maintenance, etc. that proficiency atrophied. Indeed, research backs up the “use it or lose it” proficiency adage—see the sidebar. Flying in IMC is unforgiving, with the chance of an occupant perishing in an accident nine times higher than […]

One the things every primary student learns somewhere along the way to their certificate is the difference between primary and secondary flight controls. Distinguishing between them isn’t hard: The primary flight controls are ailerons/spoilers for roll, an elevator/stabilator/canard for pitch and some kind of rudder for yaw. Those are the controls we regularly manipulate to […]

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