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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack

Air Facts

This broad scope approach is ultimately needed to help keep our friends, created in the image of God, alive. The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure).

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Alton Bay's "Excellent Water"

Photographic Logbook

Rolling out on final approach, I was surprised to see another airplane stopped right at the runway threshold. The entire morning was a parade of general aviation airplanes swooping low (some lower than others) over the parking area before touching down on the ice. It was only half full of parked aircraft.

Runway 68