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Flight Review: Van’s RV-12 LSA—Singular Success

Plane and Pilot

Individuals can attend training classes to obtain an LSA repairman certificate that, with the right endorsements, allows them to perform maintenance, including annual inspections, on their LSAs. All trainer models come with a single-color paint scheme, but the Standard can be upgraded to two screens and an autopilot.

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Keep Your iPad Airworthy: Annual Care Tips Every Pilot Should Know

iPad Pilot News

The one side effect from this high level of performance is that it can cause pilots to develop a bit of complacency over time, especially if you don’t periodically inspect your device settings, preferences, app configuration, and system updates.

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High-Tech One Upmanship

Air Facts

Now, instead of showing up in flight ops and finding my flight planning had all been done for me by my dispatcher, I was now the dispatcher. KMPO is an non-towered field as are several other places I fly to and from on an IFR flight plan. My learning curve was not steep , it was vertical!

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Complete Preflight Checklists All Pilots Need

Northstar VFR

If the inspection hasn’t been performed and signed off by the proper maintenance technician within the required timeframe, the airplane isn’t allowed to fly. Before flying, a pilot must verify these inspections have been performed by looking in the maintenance logs. Even in flight, these considerations are constantly evaluated.

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From the archive: A Pleasant Time

Air Facts

It was fun to realize that I hadn’t filed a flight plan, I didn’t have a release signed by a company dispatcher and me, and I really didn’t know where I was going and didn’t care except that it was west. With this, our present frequencies could be for all the other messages, flight plans, etc.

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Flight Review: Van’s RV-12 LSA—Singular Success

Plane and Pilot

Individuals can attend training classes to obtain an LSA repairman certificate that, with the right endorsements, allows them to perform maintenance, including annual inspections, on their LSAs. All trainer models come with a single-color paint scheme, but the Standard can be upgraded to two screens and an autopilot.

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Annual maintenance checklist for your iPad

iPad Pilot News

The one side effect from this high level of performance is that it can cause pilots to develop a bit of complacency over time, especially if you don’t periodically inspect your device settings, preferences, app configuration and system updates.