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Make Your Own METAR Map!

AeroSavvy

Green – VFR ( Visual Flight Rules ) Ceiling > 3,000 ft. If I see a yellow light, I need to take a close look at winds and runway alignment before driving to the hangar. C ( 12°F)/-11.0°C C ( 12°F) Remark: Very light icing In other words, typical gorgeous day atop Mt. Washington!

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Budget Buys and Early Bye-Bye’s

Air Facts

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. Everything checks out, and you are one happy camper!

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Failure is Not an Option

Plane and Pilot

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. However, many older legacy autopilots take their roll commands from various instruments located within the six-pack, most often the turn coordinator, DG, and the altimeter.

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“Pioneers of Flight” Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum to open in 2025

Vintage Aviation News

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. It was the first HM.14

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Night Flight from Catalina: Beechcraft Baron Incident

Fear of Landing

Catalina Airport DC3 Hangar photographed by by Don Ramey Logan in 2013. Weather reports from the Naval Auxiliary Landing Field on the island warned of a low cloud ceiling, overcast at 700-800 feet. When I saw the altimeter start to climb I raised the landing gear and let out the breath I’d apparently been holding. CC-BY-SA 3.0

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Mind the Gap: A Visit to Slatington, PA

Photographic Logbook

Cherokee Four Eight One, Allentown Approach, altimeter 30.48, remain at or above 3,500 feet." Having driven this highway a few times, I always find it hard not to imagine the incredible weight pressing down on the tunnel's ceiling. A Fly-In Farmers Market D&L Trail with Slatington Airport hangars to the right.

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