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If an engine quits on takeoff, where you go is less important than how you arrive. A straight-ahead landing remains the best low-risk option.

Do you know your airplanes most likely sources of an in-flight fire? How quickly you respond and get on the ground means everything.

Japan has been a marginal, but potentially formidable, presence in American aviation since the late 1960s. Fuji Heavy Industries, which had previously manufactured both two- and four-seat versions of the Beech T-34 Mentor for domestic military forces, produced almost 300 of the FA200 Aero Subaru, which looked the way a 172 would if you replaced […]

Miles And Mics
In Octobers Accident Probe, Miles To Go, you note, The pilot was cleared for the ILS approach to Runway 5 at SPA and released to the local advisory frequency. Oh goodie: Another frequency change from ATC at low altitude, low speed, in actual IMC at 10:00 p.m. Another dead pilot.

Controllers and the ATC system have been killing pilots for generations with frequency changes and clearance deliveries at the most awkward possible times.

Just as the nosewheel lifts off the pavement, they give me a frequency change. As the aircraft is handed off from one controller to another, the frequency should be handed off also. Let the controllers change frequencies.If th…

Accuracy and efficiency should be the goals of our communications. Dont hesitate to revert to a simple dialogue if necessary to be understood.

Many pilots are taught to avoid slips but often perform them anyway, without knowing it. Whats going on, and whats the problem?

When the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced, in the aftermath of Katrina, that it was moving its convention to Orlando, to a date a week in advance of the previously scheduled show in the Big Easy, a lot of people wondered out loud just how the organization was going to pull off that feat. […]

It was just a rumor, but I liked the idea. I’d heard that the FAA was going to equip all the airplanes in the Washington, D.C., area with ADS-B and UAT so it could better monitor their movements. The rumor got legs from the unfortunate, apparently inadvertent, incursion by the Cessna 150 into the Washington […]

Pilots still have difficulty recognizing gyro-system failures and reacting to them. How will you deal with the failure and what tools will you use?

One of the keys to slow flight is understanding that much of what we know about aerodynamics changes when the airspeed is low.