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Computer-based flight sims may help you stay sharp, but dont expect miracles. Bad habits may come back to haunt you

Keep these five high-performance tricks for emergencies, yeah, but theyll sharpen your daily flying as well

Hop turns deadly as pilot battles coastal fog, swirling winds and unforgiving terrain. Did he take the task too lightly?

Selected recent general aviation and airline accidents

My biggest concern was my dog. I knew if the door flew off, hed bolt for the open door.

When one pilot goofs, a mistake can cascade through the whole pattern

Never established on the localizer, the twin pilot nonetheless descends below minimums and finds only trees

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It was supposed to be such an easy flight. Oh, there was some weather that was supposed to move in that evening, but I’d called Flight Service five minutes before leaving for the airport, and they’d told me it was clear below 12,000 feet, with 10 miles visibility all along my route. And forecast to […]

At approximately 1145 mountain time, a Cessna R172E suffered a damaged wing while taxiing when it was knocked over by jet blast from a DC-9. The student pilot was not injured. The pilot was taxiing to the runway at Albuquerque International Airport when an American Airlines jet was cleared for taxi from Gate B1. As the DC-9 added engine power for taxi, the jet blast struck the Cessna and the wing spar was bent when the wing struck the ground….