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The IMC Club International has announced creation of a Special Membership Group within the IMC Club called the Inner Marker Circle. IMC Club International president Radek Wyrzykowski says he hopes the group will become an aviation safety cult. Members will be granted a special membership card and automatically enrolled into a drawing for an annual subscription to IFR Magazine, an IMC Club BrightLine Flight Bag, and a $1000 Proficiency Scholarship to be awarded annually at AirVenture Oshkosh.

I second Bob Keepings frustration with Jepp FD (Tales of iPad Mischief, September 2012 IFR). Im mostly a weekend pilot and dont use all the features he does, but Ive experienced the screen pinch problem for at least six months now. Most of the time it rendered FD unusable for en route operations, so I also installed ForeFlight and learned to live with NACO en route charts.

When More is Less“Searching the Sky” in the July issue was a phenomenal article. The cascading failures of this new technology are not well understood. With my G600, a pitot-static glitch, which in the good old days would have caused a barely-noticeable blip on my round VSI or ASI, now throws my ADC into re-compute […]

An FAA program for non-punitive reporting of safety concerns among air traffic controllers needs significant improvements before it can become effective, according to the Transportation Department Office of Inspector General (OIG). The safety reports are meant to reveal safety issues while protecting the controllers who submit them, but the OIG says reports have been accepted that address air traffic controller conduct issues, rather than performance concerns. These include controllers falling asleep, viewing videos while on…

Recently during an approach to an uncontrolled airport, I asked the Approach controller for a telephone number I could use to contact Approach directly if necessary after landing to cancel the IFR clearance. I am the chief instructor at a busy 141 flight school. I have been flying for over 40 years. I get a […]

Even though glass panels dominate the pages of aviation magazines and seem almost required to get flight training students in the door of a flight school, there are plenty of pilots and aircraft trolling the skies with conventional instruments. Retrofitting electronic flight information systems (EFIS) often exceeds the hull value of the aircraft. Even adding a simple electronic attitude indicator ends up being over $5000 in investment.

There is a lot of talk about the paperless cockpit these days, and some airlines have even embraced the iPad as a replacement for a bag full of charts. I have been committed to this for several years, and the best-integrated, most reliable package I found before Jepp FD was from Anywhere Map, who make a bulletproof product, and recently announced a new, cross-platform product for iPad and Android.

IFR Lite? Are You Kidding?I enjoyed Mr. Thorpe’s well-balanced article comparing IFR training in the U.S. and the U.K. (“European IFR Changes” June 2012 IFR). I would, however, like to comment on two of his statements. It is a longtime complaint of mine when an IFR aircraft announces an IFR fix for the airport without […]

Every pilot is inspired to fly for different reasons—personal and technical challenge, freedom and new perspectives, civilian or military professional career paths. During my flight training and active flying, I calculated weight and balance and plotted cross countries on a daily basis. It was nothing to bang out wind correction angles, fuel burn, and time […]

Last spring, Garmin made a declaration of sorts. It introduced an aggressive new line of inexpensive avionics for experimental aircraft. This said, in effect, even 800-pound gorillas have to compete in a new market where avionics prices are dropping, due in part, to pressure from tablet computers and ever-more-capable apps. Within two weeks of Garmin’s […]