AV Web

MARCH 20, 2025

According to the pilot operating handbook, the maximum permissible takeoff weight for such conditions was the same as the basic airplanes weight, 8,807 pounds. In the final communications with air traffic control, the pilot was informed to descend to 4,000 feet at his discretion.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

In other words, it’s more than just jumping into an airplane and learning stick-and-rudder skills. Despite my background as a research meteorologist, my aviation weather background was limited when I was a student pilot. If you are a student pilot, here are some tips that will help you achieve a good foundation with respect to weather.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 30, 2025

AI provides spotters with data on weather and flight plans and general conditions. Automating routine tasks, providing more precise weather forecasts and passenger traffic data, calculating the most efficient flight paths, and increasing overall efficiency can all be improved with new AI technologies.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

When we think of piloting aircraft, we often conjure images of the pilot sitting transfixed on the airplane instruments. In fact, there are two different ways that airplanes navigate. VFR needs good weather; IFR works in any conditions. Namely, the weather must be good enough for the pilot to see out of the window!

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Aerotime

APRIL 3, 2025

Nowadays, modern aircraft are equipped with systems that can not only fly the aircraft but can also perform fully automated take-offs and landings and can even provide protection systems in the event of unusual flight situations that threaten the safety of the airplane and its occupants.

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Air Facts

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Weather flying means learning to read clouds Air Facts Journal I had the privilege of working with Richard Collins for a decade, and in that time I learned an awful lot about weather flying. It’s not surprising—the man probably knew more about real world weather than anyone. Is that weather convective or just harmless showers?

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AV Web

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Coulson Flying Tanker head Wayne Coulson told Nanaimo News Now that after months of maintenance and the engine swaps it’s now up to the weather to decide the schedule for the ferry flight that will ultimately take it from its home base in Port Alberni on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

” The answers come from a clever little setup on your airplane: a metal tube sticking into the airstream and a tiny hole on the fuselage. It helps measure how fast the airplane is going by measuring the air pressure. The other important part of the system is a tiny hole on the side of the airplane, called a static port.

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Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Thats especially true for instrument pilots, where Air Traffic Control sounds like they are running the show, the avionics seem to direct the flight along predefined routes, and the autopilot actually flies the airplane. In the cockpit of a modern GA airplane, there is probably only one person to do all of these jobsyou!

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

Key Takeaways Category is the broadest grouping based on aircraft use, like airplane, glider, or rotorcraft. Heres a quick summary: Category: The broadest classification of aircraft based on their intended use and operating environment, such as airplane, glider, or helicopter (rotorcraft). Bear with me; Ill make it easy.

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Air Facts

JANUARY 22, 2025

I put my things in the classroom and then went into the office to pull the airplane maintenance log and other documents. I went into the office and informed them of the out-of-date VOR check and a mechanic took the airplane up while I was doing the oral portion of the checkride to complete the VOR check.

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Pilot Institute

JANUARY 3, 2025

Although modern airports utilize advanced weather monitoring systems, windsocks are still valuable because they provide immediate, visual feedback that you can rely on. As a private pilot, you may fly to or from airports that do not have advanced weather reporting systems. Let’s see how to figure out the wind direction.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Maybe it’s the Georgia flying weather, or maybe it’s the ever-increasing emphasis on “old” pilot instead of “bold” pilot, but it seems that flight planning these days is a lot more about if and when than about route and altitude. The weather looked good, except there was a thunderstorm forecast for Houston. I scrambled and packed.

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Airplanes Weather Ceiling Turbulence 91

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

Would the weather hold or not? The winds and rain caught up with the little craft as if a hand was reaching out grabbing control of the airplane. It was all I could do to keep the airplane straight. The clot of fear in my stomach gave way to survival instinct as I did everything I could to control the airplane and not crash.

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

All of which makes picking 10 airplanes for your fly-before-you-die list more than just a bit subjective. Meanwhile, Marc Cook, Plane & Pilot editor in chief, has 43 years in the left seat and had the good fortune to work a decade for AOPA and fly a bunch of interesting airplanes. T-6’s performat EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

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iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

7) The top 20 apps for pilots 2024 There are thousands of apps that are useful for pilots, from flight training and weather briefings to calculators and games. 6)PIREP: Flying with iPhone Satellite Messaging Every ten years, a new disruptive technology hits the market that fundamentally changes how we operate small airplanes.

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AV Web

DECEMBER 26, 2024

( This story originally appeared in Aviation Safety Magazine.) “Everyone talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it. The typical GA pilot is exposed to three broad areas of risk: weather, aircraft suitability, and pilot capability. Weather is a what-you-see-is -what-you-get kind of thing. if it fails.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

What stupid airplane antics have I recently participated in that would warrant the query? My name is Andrew, and I used to fly that airplane in the early 2000s. Its a great airplane. Both of us had neighbors who owned airplanes and took us flying when we were not yet teens. I find myself staring at the phone in disbelief.

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Aerotime

MARCH 20, 2025

In cold weather, the cabins are warm and comfortable and with the interesting feature of scenic observation of the surrounding country, afford the ideal means of modern travel.” By 1970, Delta operated an all-jet passenger airplane fleet with all its piston-engined airplanes retired.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

No mechanical, medical, or weather issues were reported. Another surveillance video camera recorded the airplane now in a nose-down, left-wing-down attitude, then fully rolling left and impacting the ground inverted. In the accident airplane, the left engine fuel valve assembly was found in off position. He was manually flying.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 21, 2025

Flying with Starlink satellite internet: tips for pilots iPad Pilot News In-flight satellite connectivity is more accessible now than ever for pilots flying piston airplanes and light jets. Mounting the Mini antenna in a GA airplane takes some creativity due to its size, but it can be done. More on Roam pricing options later.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Knot 71

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 25, 2025

“The primary goal is to keep old airplanes flyingsafe, fun, and affordable,” says Lucci. Hunting for Aviation Treasures Lucci and his son take a hands-on approach to aircraft salvage, traveling across the country to locate long-lost airplanes and parts. ” Gino on the rescue! .” ” Gino on the rescue!

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 5, 2025

It was a dark night, but otherwise the islands enjoyed the good VFR weather we picture for a tropical oasis. It found only a few airplane parts floating on the waves. Beautiful weather for a 21-minute flight around Maui and south to WaimeaKohala Airport (PHMU). N13GZ verify going direct TAMMI?

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Thanks to advancing technologies and ever-more capable airplanes, thats entirely possible today if you take one of the longest flights in the world. Tensions in the Middle East and unfavorable weather meant the service temporarily had a stopover in Singapore in August 2024. Qantas has had some issues with QF9 in recent months.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Whether we admit it publicly or not, we may occasionally encounter fears while flying, as well as harbor doubts about our motivation for flying an airplane. If the engine stops running, concentrate first on flying the airplane. Seems a shame, and a waste, but for some people, it was enough to have done it. Action has a calming effect.

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Airplanes Pilot Weather Approach 96

Ask the Pilot

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This is owed, maybe, to the impressionability of the adolescent mind, but also the degree to which I savored trips by airplane. Two things solved my dilemma: The first thing was the weather. But now that weather had gone south. For me, the demarcations are so often those of airplanes, trips, and places visited.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The trip went very well, the key and paperwork were turned over in Nogales to the airport manager, who would give them to the pilot who would come to take the airplane across the border to Mexico, where it would be put to work. The weather was marginal but flyable and definitely cold. The weather was fairly warm and all was quiet.

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 21, 2025

In this sample VFR Mastery Scenario, A Swift Decision , you received an extensive checkout in a Globe Swift five years ago when you bought the airplane. You have access to the same information the pilot has in the resources, such as the weather, charts, and even the view ahead at decision time.

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Runway Pilot Weather Airplanes 97

AV Web

JANUARY 5, 2025

Still, no activity catches the imagination and attention of a stimulus-addicted consumer of mass media than a good old airplane crash or mishap. Various inflight fires, engine failures, severe weather encounters, and other incidents have led me to a few conclusions I can share.

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AV Web

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Thanks to some forecast weather, the Philippine Mars headed straight to Arizona today from San Francisco rather than flying to San Diego for some public appearances and media flights. The aircraft landed on Lake Pleasant, near Phoenix, about 3 p.m.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But in Minden, Nebraska, just south of Interstate 80 and in the shadow of a row of grain elevators across the street and the railroad, there is an incredible collection of all manner of antiques, from historic buildings, cars, a steam locomotive, household appliances, and even airplanes. They can all be found in the Pioneer Village.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This was another satisfying trip, full of ADM, IMSAFE, and trade-offs—and weather. The weather was… interesting. Fussing with the avionics to keep tabs on the weather gave many more knob touches than the airplane itself. The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. Lesson learned.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 28, 2025

” According to the FAA, while some flights departing from the airport were impacted by some weather-related delays, there were no substantial flight delays caused by the ground incident itself. In August 2024, two Delta Airlines engineers were killed after a tire that they were changing on an airplane exploded.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Flat spins are particularly hazardous because the level attitude and reduced airflow over the control surfaces make it difficult to regain control of the airplane. Stay vigilant about weather conditions, airspace restrictions, and other factors that could affect your flight’s safety.

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Thrust Flight

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The simple answer is yes, airplanes can fly in the rain. The most extreme example is the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, who fly right into some of the fiercest weather on the planet day in and day out. But […] The post Can Airplanes Fly in the Rain? appeared first on Thrust Flight.

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Airplanes Thrust Weather 52

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 14, 2025

Even driving a car can be dangerous in foggy weather. While it is particularly useful in low visibility or poor weather conditions, it is not limited to such situations. Air travel would be significantly reduced if aircraft were limited to landing only when the weather was perfect. Lets learn more about this system!

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2025

Aircraft rental Each time you fly, youll pay an hourly rental rate for the airplane, which undoubtedly represents the most significant portion of your overall costs. Unsurprisingly, newer airplanes with upgraded glass cockpits tend to cost more, while older aircraft with classic steam gauges tend to cost less.

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