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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pilots

Plane and Pilot

My answer is simple: I am looking to see which students I would want to share the flight deck with because they had studied the hardest and were eager to learn more. They read the NOTAMs “before” they take off into the wild blue yonder. They will occasionally ask me what I am looking for when I grade their work.

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Drone Lingo Simplified: Acronyms Every Pilot Needs To Know

Pilot Institute

NOTAM Notice to Airmen A NOTAM is a notice that contains essential information to alert pilots of potential hazards at a specific location or along a flight route. NOTAMs are publicly available. Pilots are required to check for NOTAMs along their relevant routes or locations before the start of a flight.

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Watching the Gates

NAFI

NAFI NOTAMs #49 Watching The Gates ~Guest Blogger Aaron Dabney The following post is a combination blog and video blog post. I don’t know about you, but sharing the sky with (or potentially being on the aft side of a locked flight deck door behind) “the world’s okayest pilot” makes my skin crawl. Comment below, your thoughts.

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FAA Updates Datalink Weather Advisory Circular

iPad Pilot News

On the advisory side, the FAA recently updated the related advisory circular on the topic: AC 00-63B – Use of Flight Deck Displays of Digital Weather and Aeronautical Information. In addition to providing continuous in-flight weather updates, ADS-B provides updates to NOTAMs and TFRs in flight too.

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ForeFlight vs. Garmin Pilot: 3 key differences to help you decide

iPad Pilot News

These range from passive red badges on flight plan waypoints and approach charts to identify NOTAMs and closed runways, to on-screen pop-ups accompanied by an aural message to make sure the app gets your attention. The app has a custom feel to it and doesnt rely much on Apples standard iOS conventions and design.

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A dream comes true: flying the jumbo jet

Fly with Eva

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 aviation app directory – 2025 Edition

iPad Pilot News

Instrument Rating Test Prep and Ground School Sporty’s award-winninginstrument ratingcourse offers over 13hours of engaging HD video training, written test prep, maneuvers training, Airman Certification Standards and flight syllabus. StationWeather.

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