Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

The plan included several weeks poking around the natural treasures of both the North and South Islands via campervan, then hiring a light airplane and flight instructor for an aerial exploration of the rugged Southern Alps. It was set to be the trip of a lifetime…a month in New Zealand. This made sense. It was a truly magnificent sight.

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Knot Weather Airplanes Ceiling 117

Inspire

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Jake landed an airplane for the first time at age 13 on July 1, 2019. Last week he turned 16 and on October 30 the weather allowed him to experience flight as a solo pilot for the first time. The post Solo Milestone — Jake Marchese first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Weather Airplanes Hangar Pilot 40

Air Facts

JUNE 5, 2024

Often the response is something like, “My father (or mother) was a pilot, and I spent a lot of time around airplanes with him.” The hangar talk was different, too. In Cambodia hangar talk would more likely be practical information shared between an informal group of pilots who called themselves the Phnom Penh Pig Pilots Association.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 6, 2024

Photo via Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome] “Building army forts in the woods behind the hangars, climbing trees to load airshow pyro with my dad, playing Dogfight boardgame in real life sitting in cockpits in the hangars…my buddy in one of the other planes. Had great weather the whole way and that made it easy.

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Weather Airplanes Pilot Hangar 52

ABEAM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

We prepped the airplane. Weather was good along the way but the closer we got to our destination, the worse the weather below. At Shefferville , the weather was really bad in rain and landed via the RNP runway 17… the airport was completely empty ! We cruised at 8000 ft. And this would last until Val d’Or !

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Weather Runway Airplanes Approach 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For instance, you’ve been noticing a change in your airplane’s engine—it no longer starts at the first twist of the key, now requiring some extra finagling before springing to life. The engine was idling, but the propeller is unrepairable, despite being able to propel the airplane back to the hangar. Why Can’t I…?

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Stability Annual Inspection Crosswind Runway 82

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

BOOP , BOOP, boop," said the airplane as the propeller came to a stop. Scott started the airplane again for Ray. said the airplane again. Ray later found that the nuts securing the remaining three mounts were insufficiently torqued by whomever mounted that engine before the Williamson Flying Club bought the airplane in 2021.

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Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer 52

Aerotime

JULY 5, 2024

Tay said that in times of severe weather, baggage handling is stopped for the safety of airport workers. We’ve been exploring a lot of smart technology options that enable us to continue to run and be operationally efficient without affecting passenger experience due to the weather,” she explained.

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Lift Cargo Weather Aviation Technology 278

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Even slowed by a 25 knot headwind, the airplane still saved time. I had already fueled and readied the Warrior for departure, it was just a matter of pulling her out of the hangar. We learned the next day that a circuit breaker for the weather sensing instrumentation tripped, but the transmitter still worked.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

Flying to Sun ‘n Fun 2024 Air Facts Journal I’ve been flying since 1994 if you don’t count model airplanes, rockets, balsa wood and tissue paper rubber band powered models, control line, radio controlled (R/C) model aircraft and gliders. Flying back was bit more challenging from a weather perspective. During the trip I put 18.1

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Weather Knot Ceiling Turbulence 77

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

I had arranged with the airport police that we could pass by there from 05:30L onwards (after having done the GenDec ), and we had prepared most of the airplane upfront, including fuel. We immediately spotted a small Grumman Cheetah airplane with two people onboard: they were staring up to also fly to Reykjavik on their way to Oshkosh !

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Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

Fullthrottle Aviation

DECEMBER 25, 2023

While some applicants use simulator time to count toward the 35 or 40 hours for instrument, I often see the best performance when the simulator time is in addition to the time in the airplane. However, simulator training is never an equal substitute for time spent in the airplane navigating real world challenges like weather, ATC, etc.

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Airplanes Pilot Weather General Aviation 52

Gary's Flight Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

Granted the weather hasn’t helped and my knee issue has diminished my desire to climb aboard. We were quickly seated and enjoyed our lunch while talking airplanes, flying to new destinations and avionics upgrades. I made a nice landing and taxi clear for my hangar. It’s been 33 days since my last flight time.

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Runway Pilot Weather Flight Plan 95

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For instance, you’ve been noticing a change in your airplane’s engine—it no longer starts at the first twist of the key, now requiring some extra finagling before springing to life. The engine was idling, but the propeller is unrepairable, despite being able to propel the airplane back to the hangar. Why Can’t I…?

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Stability Annual Inspection Crosswind Runway 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 17, 2024

Is it the ability to fly for yourself, with friends and family, for a business, or to own an airplane? That will give you the ability to fly a light airplane with one engine, about the same size as a car (with wings). That will give you the ability to fly a light airplane with one engine, about the same size as a car (with wings).

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Airplanes Pilot Weather Approach 71

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 27, 2024

” Teamwork: “In BC, wildfire fighting is never just about the airplane, and it’s never just about the ground crew. After that, the team at Sproat Lake will drive the beaching gear equipment to Vancouver, and the next day they’ll attach the gear and bring the airplane out of the water.”

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Ferry Flight Airplanes Weather Runway 131

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 15, 2024

Port Meadville Airport Seventy Seven Years Port Meadville Airport's gate leads directly onto a residential street, though one of the first houses had a hangar within which a J3 Cub waited for its next flight. Tragically, her instructor's Cessna Cardinal crashed after departing into severe weather from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

We do a lot of patient work with our airplanes all over the country,” says Director of Aviation Operations Kent Johnson. “We Learning from past accidents, he implemented measures to prevent future incidents, such as transitioning to an IFR program and establishing enroute decision points to guide pilots in adverse weather conditions.

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Pilot Weather Flight Plan Airplanes 40

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

We do a lot of patient work with our airplanes all over the country,” says Director of Aviation Operations Kent Johnson. “We Learning from past accidents, he implemented measures to prevent future incidents, such as transitioning to an IFR program and establishing enroute decision points to guide pilots in adverse weather conditions.

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Pilot Weather Flight Plan Airplanes 40

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

READ MORE: 20 Most Famous Airplanes and Aircraft Werline’s father is one of the Navy men who was on hand to help the Hindenburg moor that day. That didn’t prevent them from having accidents, however, as the airships were vulnerable to weather. He survived. The Los Angeles took part in military exercises as an experiment.

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Tail Hangar Weather Approach 109

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Pounding on the airplane to loosen ice was forbidden. We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. Shouldn’t make a difference, but it does.

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Knot Weather Density Altitude True Airspeed 87

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Pounding on the airplane to loosen ice was forbidden. We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. Shouldn’t make a difference, but it does.

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Knot Weather Density Altitude True Airspeed 69

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Some pilots come to Galesburg, park their airplane and just enjoy the fellowship for the week. Vendors set up to sell souvenirs and parts, and the new International Stearman Community Hangar hosts its own gift shop, historical library, and museum inside. What can you possibly do for a whole week in Galesburg, you might ask.

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Tail Aileron Airplanes Transponder 122

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. Still the better part of an hour away from home, weather conditions were concerning.

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Approach Ceiling Weather Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 7, 2024

Kristy and I ended our first visit in 2016 prematurely due to ominous movement on a weather map. By now, we had a visual on the other airplane and all three of us kept careful watch on it. We wandered the streets of Rockport where many of the buildings dressed in the standard New England weathered gray cedar shake siding.

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Approach Clearance Runway General Aviation 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

” Johnny at the controls of his first airplane. It is honestly one of the most fun airplanes I’ve ever flown.” Six days later, Valley Forge launched the Navy’s first carrier-borne airstrikes of the war and VA-55 Skyraiders attacked airfields in Pyongyang, North Korea, destroying hangars, aircraft, and fuel depots.

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Pilot Airplanes Runway Cockpit 105

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

A few years ago, I got the bug to fly small airplanes again. We fly our new-to-us Piper to Florida often (the airplane could probably find Orlando on its own), and we agreed it was time for something more adventurous. Our Aircraft Our family’s airplane is a 1976 Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 11, 2023

Shy of a hurricane or tornado, the Warrior can easily tolerate most weather phenomena experienced while parked outdoors in her cabin cover. But hail is in a league all its own and only a hangar can protect against that. Starting with Pickens County, I called every small airport in the region looking for hangar space.

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Descent Approach Airplanes Runway 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, for refurbishment in the UHC’s Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar and to be kept in storage in newly-constructed storage modules at Udvar-Hazy meant to replace the older facilities at the Paul E. And moving the Spirit of St. ” The Spirit of St. ” Douglas World Cruiser Chicago. While the HM.14

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Airplanes Pilot Ceiling Altimeter 98

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II. Frustrated at work, in 1909 he received a gift of 1,000 pounds from his grandfather to build his first airplane, just a few years after the Wright brothers had made their first flight.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift 115

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Warrior has introduced countless people to the joys of light airplanes. A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado.

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 74

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Centerline, centerline, centerline Air Facts Journal It was a beautiful May day as we grabbed the tow bar to pull the 1981 Cessna 182 out of the hangar. As I went through the preflight inspection, my wife strapped my daughter into the car seat and climbed into the airplane herself.

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Aileron Crosswind Knot Runway 72

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Some bucks spent on a hangar, updated paint and exterior, and a little TLC under the cowling, and your 30-year-old Cessna 172 will keep up with a brand-new one, for a lot less dollars. If you are still listening to the AM baseball and weather on your ADF, its days, at least in the U.S., However, the reverse is not true. are numbered.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 99

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It was not an inspiring morning to fly out of Sodus, but I knew that the poor weather was localized to the Lake Ontario shore and that Washington DC was forecast to be sunny and significantly warmer. When landing in the SFRA/FRZ, that code must be maintained until the airplane is on the ground. Do you have a prop lock?

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The new gallery is a 91,000 square foot hangar and provides a 70% increase to the indoor exhibition space. They turned out to be from a weather outpost for the US Army Air Force’s 11th Weather Squadron, and that they were the only other people on the island. Incredibly, it would take an amateur radio operator out of St.

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Weather Tail Drag Ceiling 124

Photographic Logbook

JULY 21, 2024

Reservations about Reservations "Hangars Cafe, how can I help you?" "Do This grand sightseeing adventure never happened in 2023 due to a combination of terrible weather and lousy visibility from Canadian wildfires. In my airplane, I was accompanied by Alyssa and Mark. Do you take reservations?" "It It depends. Peril, indeed.

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Weight-Shift-Control Clearance Approach Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” So, what is a thinking pilot of an older, upgraded airplane to do? Better to write it down sitting in your hangar on a rainy day than try to figure it out at 6,000 feet over the Okefenokee Swamp at midnight.

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Cockpit Pilot Transponder General Aviation 100