Northstar VFR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI A kneeboard is an essential tool for pilots of all experience levels. You will find student pilots, instructors, recreational pilots, and airline pilots use a kneeboard. Clipped to the kneeboard is essential information and resources available to the pilot at their fingertips.

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Pilot Flight Deck Instrument Flight Rules Approach 84

iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

What’s the best iPad for Pilots – 2024 Holiday Edition iPad Pilot News The original Apple iPad was released over 14 years ago on April 3, 2010. For security, the iPad Air incorporates TouchID integrated with the power button at the top of the device, which some pilots find to be more reliable than FaceID in the cockpit.

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Pilot Cockpit Airplanes Weather 98

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

It is not uncommon for air traffic control to pose this question to pilots on IFR flight plans approaching certain airports when the weather is VFR. In daylight, when the visibility is good, the winds calm, and the pilot familiar with the airport—and the approach is a straight in—the visual is no big deal.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Pilot’s aviation app directory 2025 Edition iPad Pilot News iPad Pilot News has helped pilots discoverover 100 quality aviation appssince the invention of the iPad in 2010.Here AOPA Magazine Delivers AOPA’s monthly magazines to AOPA members, including AOPA Pilot and AOPA Flight Training.

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Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes 91

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

Passing the torch Air Facts Journal Pilots are life-long learners, and, per the Feynman Learning Technique, the best way to learn anything is to teach it to someone else. With that in mind, plus a desire to pass the torch to a new generation, some old pilots developed a week-long aviation camp for youth, ages 14-18.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

These all seem pretty logical to us as drivers, but too much of the time, we don’t think defensively as pilots in our flying. The same concepts we use in defensive driving apply to flight operations to help us mitigate risks of violations, incidents, or accidents.

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Pilot Weather Approach Air Traffic Control 97

Air

JANUARY 22, 2025

With E-ATO 190 certification by the Spanish Aviation Safety Agency (AESA) and under European EASA regulations, One Air once again reaffirms itself as a reference in pilot training worldwide. Best Flight School in Spain in 2024, 2021 and 2020 Why have we been chosen? Would you like to study at the best Spanish flight school?

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Pilot Flight Deck General Aviation Cockpit 92

Jetwhine

JUNE 24, 2024

Pursuing my schooling on computer-aided flight plans, usually generated by an electronic flight bag (EFB—see Are You Current with the New Airman Certification Standards? for my ACS motivation), has led me to an FAA advisory circular, Use of Flight Deck Displays of Digital Weather and Aeronautical Information.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Weather Flight Plan Flight Deck 52

Flight Training Central

JUNE 3, 2024

This can include using previously assigned frequencies, emergency frequencies, NAVAIDs, personal or company contact information provided in the flight plan, etc. The occurrence report may eventually make its way to the local FAA FSDO office who would have responsibility for investigating to determine whether a pilot deviation occurred.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

As a relatively new pilot , I had failed to see the bigger picture. As a mountain-bred pilot, I’ve always enjoyed observing the ridges and valleys from on high and low. That day’s flight would be memorable in another way. Our return flight was by a safer, much smoother route. That day was different.

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iPad Pilot News

JUNE 14, 2024

FAA Updates Datalink Weather Advisory Circular iPad Pilot News The rollout of ADS-B datalink weather over twelve years ago was an interesting time for GA pilots. Pilots were free to use the system immediately with these new portable receivers, which improved in-flight decision-making almost overnight.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Looking back on both these experiences, the primary difference was that the first was guided by the principle of single-pilot resource management (SRM) and the second by its older sibling, crew resource management (CRM). CRM has gone on to become a staple of airline and military flight training. However, the weather was less so.

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Weather Clearance Pilot Airplanes 92

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

Challenger 604, G-IV Contributing Writer Honeywell Primus Epic F ederal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 91.205 prescribes the minimum instruments and equipment necessary for flight. As the flying environment grows more complex such as under instrument flight rules (IFR) additional instrumentation becomes critical.

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Aviation Bussiness News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In advance of its much-awaited Airbus A350s joining the fleet, Emirates has invested around US$48 million in full suites of equipment and systems to support both pilot and cabin crew training. Emirates has ordered three full flight simulators for its A350 fleet.

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Cabin Crew Flight Deck Pilot Flight Plan 40

Airspeed Junkie

APRIL 4, 2022

Best Gifts for Pilots To get the best of this article you should consider that there are four main types of people that are buying gifts for pilots. The first is a family member who is trying to choose the best gifts for pilots. The second is a spouse or significant other that wants to buy something for the pilot in your life.

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Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, when Gulfstream introduced its Honeywell-made Synthetic Vision System – Primary Flight Display to business aircraft in 2005, it was the real thing. Yet suddenly, neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night would keep professional pilots on the ground – or divert them into it. The images were artificial, and looked it.

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Jetwhine

MAY 15, 2024

In the days before electronic flight bags, the duffels filled with the necessary performance, operational, and navigation paper were a weight and balance line item, especially with a full set of instrument approach plates. In all phases of flight, an EFB can replace paper when the information it displays 1. Scott Spangler, Editor

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Flight Deck Pilot Approach Flight Plan 52

Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

Flashes of previous 737 experience, flight training, moving all over the planet, Phoenix, Girona, Rome, Barcelona, Hong Kong, manuals, operating procedures and limitations. I see my name on the crew list, I sign in and read the flight plan, notams and weather. I wrote earlier that becoming a pilot was never my childhood dream.

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Pilot's Life Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

True to its name, the airspeed indicator tells you how fast the plane is going and is important for flight planning and maintaining aircraft performance. The speed indicator itself connects to a series of hollow pipes in the plane that connects to the various instruments on the flight deck, known as the pitot static system.

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Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

By Rafael Henríquez Managing Editor (L–R) Surack Enterprises Chief Pilot Chad Grabau, VP of Aviation Tim Edmonds, Founder & CEO Chuck Surack, Sweet Aviation GM Joel Pierce, and Global DOM/Turbine Fleet Mgr Jon Capper with Bombardier Global 6500 and Pilatus PC-12 at FWA. Chief Pilot Chad Grabau flies exclusively the company’s Global 6500.

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Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

Decades ago, when I learned to fly, it was well-known that a commercial co-pilot/first officer was allowed to occupy the right seat of a transport airplane only if they’d proven themselves subservient enough to understand that the guy in the left seat was perfectly capable of handling the airplane all by himself.

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Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

PRESS RELEASE G3000 PRIME App Menu G armin introduced G3000 PRIME, its most advanced integrated flight deck yet. “Twenty years ago, Garmin redefined the general aviation cockpit with the G1000, our first integrated flight deck.

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Professional Pilot

JUNE 10, 2024

For most pilots, electronic flight bags (EFBs) have sent all that paper for recycling. Let’s take another look at the digital cockpit aids now available to corporate pilots. All the charts needed for flight planning and en route, plus airport charts for taxiing to and from the runway. • A pilot logbook. •

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Adventures of Cap'n Aux

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

JFK-HND Flight Plan Planning our extended journey is similar to our previous adventures to SYD or DEL ( See A Passage to India and A Passage to Sydney ). Like our SYD flight, I have 3 First Officers. We take approximately two 3-hour shifts resting, while the other team of 2 pilots fly. A Passage to Adventure!

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Flight Training Central

MAY 3, 2024

For all ACS, the following changes have been made: Added an introductory note in the Foreword referencing and explaining the ACS Companion Guide for Pilots. Added Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA-H-8083-25) and the Risk Management Handbook (FAA-H-8083-2) as a reference in various Tasks. Flight Deck Management PA.II.B.R3

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