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Groundhog Day at Alton Bay

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At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. We had a deal.

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7 tips for your cold weather flying

Flight Training Central

If your flight needs to get out early in the morning, the airplane should be hangared overnight and pulled out just before departure. You’ll quickly learn the importance of speed control on final approach and how to make real-world use of the soft-field takeoff and landing techniques.

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The Flying Bear Goes to Beantown | Part 4, Going Missed

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At one point, we entered a region of sufficient turbulence that I disengaged the autopilot to hand-fly. Since we lost our LPV approaches due to obstructions along the final approach course, the downgraded LNAV minimum descent altitude for the approach to runway 28 was 558 feet above the ground. Tired, remember?) "Yep,"

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Day 4: Entering The States CYVP-CYKL-CYVO-KATW – Along the Blue Spruce Routes to the USA

ABEAM

We taxied to the whole other end of the airport to the FBO Hangar Q60 which served avgas. We started the game to deviate to the left and the right but after a while nature was winning from us: we could not avoid anymore getting into the clouds which potentially carried ice, turbulence or worse. ATC assigned runway 18 and landed.

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2700 Miles in a Cherokee Six

AeroSavvy

Bad data caused by turbulence, turns, and other anomalies was discarded. All of our flying started early in the mornings before afternoon turbulence and storms. Hangar space is sometimes available for under $50/night – a nice option if storms are expected. Pressure altitudes were converted to density altitude.

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Speak Like an #AvGeek: A Glossary For Enthusiasts

NYC Aviation

If you spend any amount of time planespotting at an airport , sharing photos on the NYCAviation Photo Hangar , combing through # AvGeek hashtagged conversations on Twitter or doing any other similar aircraft-centric activity, you’ve likely heard hundreds of aviation terms thrown around.

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