NA At Night
You planned this getaway weekend to Wise County, Virginia months ago. A cabin is ready. A rental car awaits you when you land at...
Readback: June 2021
Oxygen If You're Tired?I enjoyed Victor Vogel’s “Managing Fatigue” in your April issue. I have asked many people and read many articles. No one...
FLY A ROUND-ROBNN
We usually make these so you can fly them with or without a GPS in your sim, but that’s getting more difficult every day....
SURFACE CHARTS
Back in the old days of aviation weather, surface and upper-air charts were complicated things left to the forecasters. As a pilot, you made...
NOT SO EASY AFTER ALL
After a three-day trip to the Denver area mixing business and recreation, you're heading eastbound for home with a stop in Medford, Oklahoma, to...
KMFR LOC/DME BC-B
In this reintroduction of a past series of articles, we’ll fully dissect a particular chart or procedure. While many of the points we’ll make...
THAT ELUSIVE PROFICIENCY
Many consider the instrument rating as the most difficult aeronautical achievement. This is probably even more the case today than when I earned that...
More Hide and Seek
Flight-planning your Washingtonstate mini-vacation taught you a lot about identifying obstacles on approach. Overall, IFR into Deer Park won’t be too onerous for terrain...
Dead Reckoning in IFR
GPS in general aviation aircraft has become ubiquitous. So much so that the FAA’s move to a Performance Based Navigation (PBN) world based primarily...
Obstacle Hunt
When briefing an approach, we might not care what a given “obstacle” actually is. But they do come in all shapes and sizes; the chart...
Final Stage Check
Some people say that it doesn’t matter where you practice IFR because all procedures use the same cookbook. An ILS is an ILS whether...
It All Adds Up
Three hours in a single, even a roomy one like the sturdy Piper Dakota, seems to be about the maximum sitting time for most...