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...
Stupid Pilot Tricks
Yes, we’d done as we were told. The hushed voice on the phone had promised a copy the 2019 Golden File from the Official...
Don’t Cancel Yet
The flight to your vacation destination ended a few miles short with an unplanned overnight in Virginia. The trip started from home base in...
Which Way Is Up?
Expect vigorous debate on how best to orient your moving map. Here, I’ll address that debate about the best orientation. But rather than reiterating...
Runway Incursions
During a heated conversation have you even crossed the line? Have you been told you did? Assuming so, unpleasant things happen after crossing that...
Infamous Aspen
Aspen is home to the rich and famous—senators, movie stars, and industry titans all have second homes here. Aspen is the home of the...
Build Your Own Sim
Assume you want to buy an airplane. You wouldn’t just go with your buddy’s suggestion to get a Cloudpuncher simply because he said it’s...