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Master instructor instilled importance of preparation and trusting your training.

Aviator experiences a time when instrument skill and autopilot discipline become critical.

Friend’s backcountry landing went sideways but became proverbial teaching moment.

Pre-briefing for abnormal situations could have made all the difference after aborted takeoff.

One of general aviation’s original storytelling audio formats enters its next chapter.

After not being able to get in a word edgewise with ATC, without warning, the right engine quit.

Decision to accept ‘shortcut’ from ATC leads to harrowing experience.

Routine instructional flight turns into a heart-stopping moment when two aircraft unexpectedly meet on a hidden runway.

Instructor recounts a flight where an emergency landing revealed the critical importance of meticulous preflight checks.

Close call shows unpredictable and unforgiving nature of in-flight structural phenomenon.