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Ideal conditions don’t happen often for aircraft owners, so celebrate them when they do.

There are things pilots can do to keep themselves and their aircraft prepared during extended periods of gray.

Remembering the good parts of student-pilot nighttime training can help get us back out in the dark.

If you are in a part of the world prone to snow, ice, and freezing conditions, getting from the ramp to the sky can take a little more time and planning.

Broad-scale weather patterns impact the Eastern U.S. in the colder months.

The small tailwheel cut into the grass strip’s soft mud like a pizza cutter, leading to dreaded consequences.

Pilots looking to stay active during winter can find numerous fly-ins and other events at airports across the country.

A new aircraft owner learns lessons and discovers solutions that make winter flying more fun.

Q: Is it possible to identify the typical sequence during which snow will fall in the Midwest versus an area prone to receiving lake effect snow? It seems snow pellets or sleet/ice pellets appear before flakes in some circumstances. A: Outside of large hailstones, the precipitation type that gets reported at the surface depends entirely […]

Snow and ice present particular challenges for pilots, especially when getting from the hangar to the taxiway.