UNICOM—February 2025

Aviation Safety

Monday, February 03, 2025 at 05:00 AM ET

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Edited By: Omar Filipovic

Key Takeaways:

Post-flight inspections are an underutilized safety measure, and pilots should expand them beyond anomaly checks to include routine tasks like fluid verification, cleaning, and aircraft securing, proactively combatting complacency.
VFR flight following offers significant benefits, serving as a free tool to enhance situational awareness, simplify complex airspace navigation, and provide invaluable experience for pilots in communicating with air traffic control.

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Expanded Preflights

Thanks for Ryan Motte’s January 2024 article on pre-flight inspections, “Expanding Your Preflights.” I especially appreciate the sidebar on post-flight inspections, which I think are under utilized.

I’d expand your list of items to check after a flight. Of course, the extent of a post-flight we perform has a lot to do with any problems or anomalies we experienced on the way in, but a little extra attention can make getting out again a lot simpler and quicker.