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While I was driving to the airport a layer of radiation fog condensed and became a pattern-smashing iron plate by flight time. While waiting for tower to cut the next ATIS, I poked around weather forecasts and noticed that the MOS forecast predicted, correctly, low ceilings for the rest of the morning. Argh!

There are many old sayings sprinkled throughout aviation. One of them, Theres no such thing as an emergency takeoff, highlights the fact that deciding to initiate a flight is optional. As pilots, we get to decide many elements of our takeoffs, including whether to perform one in the first place. This is important since there are many unknowns in the first few minutes after a takeoff.

Textron Aviation is now offering a portable, carry-on head-up display from a Maryland company called Epic Optix for single-engine piston Cessna and Beechcraft models. Priced at $2,000, the product is being billed as the first ever full-color HUD for light general aviation airplanes. Textron Aviation is showcasing the Epic Eagle HUD in its Cessna 182 […]

Garmin says the first of its new G500 TXi and G600 TXi clean-sheet touchscreen flight displays are on their way to customers following approvals by both the FAA and EASA in Europe. The TXi series incorporates touchscreen design with modern processors that support improved map and chart rendering, faster panning and contemporary single-finger zoom and […]

Relevant Discussion: AIM 5-1-3, JO 7930.2, AC 150/5200-28 NOTAM Definition: Time-critical information that is either temporary in nature or not known sufficiently in advance to permit publication on aeronautical charts or other publications. Notam (D): FICON notam — field condition notam: (JO 7930.2R, para. 5-1-4) FDC (Flight Data Center) notams: Pointer notams: SAA notams: Military […]

Some pilots believe a great aircraft, like a fine wine, only improves with age. Others turn up their nose at the thought of flying an airplane based on a decades-old design. Passing up a Beechcraft Baron G58 simply because the first Baron flew in 1962 would be a major mistake. The G58 is definitely not […]

The day before the Chicago Area 99’s annual IFR/VFR Expo, Madeleine Monaco was worried about the weather, always a coin toss in the Midwest during January. Monaco was the general manager for the 99’s event. “If the weather’s really good tomorrow, our turn out will probably suffer,” she told me. “Most pilots would rather be […]

It was a star-studded affair as John Travolta, Harrison Ford and other Hollywood stars toasted aviation’s best and brightest in Beverly Hills, California, over the weekend at the 15th annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards. This year’s inductees included AOPA president Mark Baker, record-setting helicopter pilot and businessman H. Ross Perot Jr., freefall parachute daredevil […]

I had an eventful flight the other night. The day before, I had picked up my Beech Model 58P Pressurized Baron from its annual inspection and some extensive panel work at a facility in Massachusetts. After the paperwork was complete, I did my usual careful post-maintenance inspection and then test-flew it around the pattern several times before putting it away in my hangar back at its base

Touch … What?I fly behind a Garmin G1000 and found Frank Bowlins October article, Multiple Approaches to be of interest. Although he wrote the article about the GTN navigators, I found that most of what he offered does work in a G1000. However, one statement left me confused.