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Pilot Proficiency

Airwork: Stupid Is As Stupid Does!

You’ve given us a litany of accidents in which the pilots did something stupid,” pointed out one of the pilots of the Glens Falls Pilots and Owners Association to which I had just presented a program I call “Good Accidents.” “Why do pilots do something stupid?” he asked. “Not stupid,” someone else suggested, “but certainly […]

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How to Impress Girls

Pipeline-patrol pilot Corey Hines, who flies out of Beaumont, Texas, sure got it right. He took off one evening for a flight with a girlfriend; and landed with a fiancé. The accompanying picture of his proposal written in sand along the beach should explain. He said: “Jolyn thought we were just flying down to Galveston […]

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Did Your Summer Reading List Include This Classic?

I downloaded WingX’s product (www.hiltonsoftware.com) onto my iPod Touch just before EAA AirVenture, but hadn’t had the chance to explore many of the program’s offerings until my family road trip this week. Wow. What an exciting array of information and features. I used it to keep track of the nasty storms that overflew Cape Cod […]

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A Jet Jockey Flies the P-51 Mustang

Having read about and studied the North American P-51 Mustang for as long as I can remember, how on earth could I have been surprised by anything when I had the opportunity to fly it? I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that most of those other writers were so used […]

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Sport Pilot: Cessna 150s, Diabetes and Fuel Injection

Each month, Flying answers questions about the new Sport Pilot/Light Sport Aircraft rule with assistance from the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), the authority on the opportunities available within the category commonly known as “Sport Pilot”: Q: I have two questions regarding light-sport aircraft: Is a 1976 Cessna 150 with a 100 hp engine eligible as […]

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The Ins and Outs of ADS-B

As you’ve doubtless heard, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, long spoken of as the surveillance system of the future, is officially here. In late May the FAA published the final rule, though, fortunately, it will be years before you need to do anything about it. If you think of ADS-B as being like a transponder, […]

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Flying Lessons: Past, Present and Way Ahead

Until last weekend, the last time I’d had a mettwurst was 1987. What, you might ask, is a mettwurst? Ah. It’s a spicy, little-known relative of the bratwurst that’s only available, as far as I’ve ever determined, in a small radius around southern Ohio. I mention the mettwurst only because sometimes, like the smell of […]

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Gear Up: How Blurred Vision Clarifies Things

The bright, very bright, sunlight flickered through the Mercury Tracer’s side window making a strobe light effect. The snow was piled high on the sides of the road and the sunlight on the snow was overwhelming my sunglasses. As I drove down the 19-degree hill, in the 19-degree weather, the combination of frost on the […]

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I Learned About Flying From That: Lessons Learned

The simple logbook entry read “installed rectifier in alternator test circuit, flight tested OK.” We’d had a problem with our alternator-out light that was corrected on a Monday prior to a flight planned for Saturday. The briefer was right; we arrived at our hangar at Lee Gilmer Memorial (GVL) in Gainesville, Georgia, with less than […]

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Training: Improving Your Odds

I recently received an interesting message from Kevin Recker, who is a senior engineering manager for General Dynamics in Scottsdale, Arizona. The group he leads has built space flight hardware for the Viking missions, the Apollo Program, the International Space Station and the Mars Rovers. The equipment it builds has to be right and can’t […]

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