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Departures, Arrivals

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

Runway Incursions

In 1997 the worst runway incursion in aviation history occurred in foggy weather on the island of Tenerife when a KLM 747 began a...

Fuel Blunders

These ASRS reports show many ways to get something simple wrong. You’ll see how creative errors can sneak in and deprive us of the...

Smooth Way Down

Southern California, the land of Zen mountain centers, surfer vibes, and the Big Lebowski, is one laid-back place. Is there a better spot then,...

Right Approach Speeds

Our training for the instrument ticket focused on flying by reference to instruments, how to shoot approaches, holds etc. By that point pilots were...

Near Midair Collisions

These reports of near midair collisions, NMACs, should be deeply frightening to any pilot. The pilots’ experiences strongly suggest more vigilance and, ultimately, increased...

Don’t Hit the Ground

Every year, the Aviation Safety Reporting System staff selects 50 of the most profound reports in a category, here Controlled Flight Toward Terrain, and...

Random Holds

Holds are the bane of many pilots’ existence. The variety of helpful and not-so-helpful tips, tricks, and other “aids” tells us how big a...

Dilemmas At Dusk

While we train for the essential ability to fly approaches to minimums, that’s not always enough preparation for real-life weather, which can conjure up...

Fly the Procedure Turn

We all learned how to fly procedure turns when we got our instrument rating. We probably even had to fly a procedure turn or...

Finish The Job

The second leg of your Tennessee-to-Kentucky journey (see January IFR) is going more smoothly than the first, but there are yet some tough decisions...

Incommunicado

Airborne communications failures can be uncomfortable at best. It’s eerie hearing the radios go quiet when they should be bustling with transmissions, and you...