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Every flight, even a VFR flight, has a departure procedure and an arrival procedure. On VFR flights that might just be make a left...

Today’s Sim Challenge begins on the ramp at Silver Springs, Nevada, (KSPZ). You can use real-world weather, but since it’s probably good VFR in...

You’ve built your sim and you have been flying it a lot, improving your instrument proficiency and your overall confidence in the airplane. You’ve...

You’ve probably heard at least something about a strong El Niño episode that’s underway. During such years, weather hazards are plentiful, especially in the...

Departure in IMC can lead to a CFIT or midair collision after even a slight deviation from the published procedure. Review the practices below...

Unless you ignore general aviation news, you’ve probably already heard that all of the Belvoir Media Aviation titles—Aviation Consumer, Aviation Safety, AVweb, IFR, and...

“Pibot” Can Fly Anything Say Researchers Korean researchers say their humanoid “pibot” is an autonomous flight system that doesn’t require significant flight deck modifications. The...

I always enjoy the magazine. Thank you to all who provide and produce the content. In Tarrance Kramer’s “Towerless Tribulations” article in April, he discussed...

Before I was an air traffic controller, I dabbled with computer programming. Both fields involve complex problems that are often broken down to simple...

Of all the features of the modern Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS), perhaps the most useful is altitude preselect. It improves safety by reducing...

After deciding I wanted as much redundancy—immunity from any single failure—as possible, and designing the systems toward that goal (See “Belt, Suspenders, Rope” in...

You can have too many choices, so many that decisions get delayed. It’s usually not a big deal for simpler matters like cruise altitude—estimate...