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Accident Probes

Ice Isn’t Nice

Airframe icing can be found year-round, depending on geography and altitude. In North America, we’re heading into the season when pilots of personal airplanes, which generally don’t fly high enough to worry about ice most of the year, need to factor it into their planning and execution. Even if you’re flying something with a form […]

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Accident Probes

Not Bulletproof

Even before I started taking flying lessons, I was exposed to aviation. Without a formal frame of reference, I absorbed what little I could from other pilots’ stories, reading about flying in books and magazines like this one and, tragically, learning how some of them came to grief. That usually involved poor weather. It took […]

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Aircraft

Practical Stability

My family loved the Cherokee Six I used to fly. My daughter, the one most interested in aviation, sat up front with me, helping with radios and charts. My son, whose stomach was the most sensitive, sat in the middle row, near the center of gravity (CG), where turbulence had the least effect. My wife […]

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Pilot in aircraft
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