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Risk Management

When Good Intentions Have Bad Consequences

There I was, 1000 feet above the airport, flying the pattern, with no safe way to land my plane. I was lonely, angry, afraid and somehow also at peace. “Fly the plane!” Those words kept repeating more than I could count. My past instructors’ words offered encouragement. It’s now been two years since that flight, […]

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Instrument Flying

Is An Autopilot ‘Required’ Equipment for IFR?

One of the many avionics advances in recent years is the autopilot. Not that long ago, the typical personal airplane didn’t have a working autopilot—it might have been in the panel, but it was rare for it to work, much less as well as a modern one does. For one thing, altitude hold or preselect […]

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Pilot in aircraft
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