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Gambling in Reno

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...

Build Your Own Sim, Pt. 5

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...

Mixing It Up

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...

Logging Sim Time

Back in 2018, the FAA expanded our ability to use training devices to maintain instrument currency. Incomprehensible distinctions between aircraft and various types of...

Proficiency Maneuvers

Robert, my student, called me the other day. He bases his Cirrus SR22T out of Eagle Colorado (KEGE). He wanted to know if I...

In A Pickle

Flight training isn’t just about learning the right way to do things. A huge portion concerns recovering when things go wrong—self-inflicted or otherwise. For...

What is VMC?

While the Pilot’s Operating Handbook shows VMC for the aircraft, the VMC in flight varies depending on many conditions. It’s similar to the published...

Those Grey Areas

Most instrument trips end with one approach and one landing, after which you go about your day. For those times when one approach doesn’t...

ATC Uses Checklists too

What do operations of any two aircraft, be they a heavy Boeing 777 or the tiniest piston-engine light sport aircraft, have in common? Checklists,...

Done That Lately?

Exploring new places with your airplane can be fun, but sometimes that requires being comfortable with operations you don’t do often. It can also...

Two Up, Two Down

You can fly a lot of IFR these days without encountering anything but GPS approaches with LPV minimums. In this challenge, you’ll fly departures...

Build Your Own Sim, Pt. 4

You can think of your sim like a desktop operating system: By itself, it’s not extremely useful; only when you install third-party applications on...