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No Pressure: Altitude Decompression Sickness

Altitude means different things to different pilots. In crop dusting or banner towing, it’s not something we need. When striving for efficiency and economy over a distance, it can be, since the air is thinner and cooler the higher we climb. True airspeed increases and so do tailwinds, if you’re headed in the right direction. […]

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IFR Quiz

October 2023 Quiz

As GA aircraft fly higher and higher, the risk of hypoxia increases. In August and September 2014, a Cirrus SR22T and a TBM 700 with two aboard were lost. Most recently, a Cessna 560 Citation was lost with five aboard. Hypoxia is a suspected cause. Hypoxia is a state of oxygen deficiency in the body […]

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