Flight Plan Jet Knot 
Jetwhine
JULY 1, 2024
Hawker Accident at Aspen On February 21, 2022, the crew and four passengers aboard a Hawker 800 nearly lost their lives when the twin-engine business jet sailed off the end of Runway 33 into soft snow at Aspen Pitkin County Airport (ASE), Colorado, during its takeoff run. Unique to this accident was the wind that morning.
Plane and Pilot
AUGUST 8, 2024
The day before we left, I had already worked the flight plan dozens of times, looking for potential pitfalls and hiccups. We departed early on a Tuesday morning from the Capital Jet Center FBO in Charleston, West Virginia (KCRW), filing direct to KLDJ at 7,000 feet. We enjoyed our stay at the Moxy Hotel in Chelsea.
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Plane and Pilot
AUGUST 8, 2024
The day before we left, I had already worked the flight plan dozens of times, looking for potential pitfalls and hiccups. We departed early on a Tuesday morning from the Capital Jet Center FBO in Charleston, West Virginia (KCRW), filing direct to KLDJ at 7,000 feet. We enjoyed our stay at the Moxy Hotel in Chelsea.
iPad Pilot News
JUNE 14, 2024
Pilots that are comfortable with self-briefing, via FAA Flight Services, or an equivalent means, may use the EFB to display the METI and AI as well as to file flight plans. For example, a pilot of a light twin aircraft, flying at a medium altitude with a tailwind could easily have a groundspeed in excess of 200 knots.
Photographic Logbook
OCTOBER 28, 2023
We flew at 7,000 feet with as much as a 30 knot tailwind. Two jets and one piston aircraft were queued up to depart from the same runway when we arrived. Line crew at Million Air chocks Warrior 481 next to a Cirrus Vision Jet. At Million Air, I helped myself to a Coke while I filed an IFR flight plan home. (In
Flying Magazine
MAY 15, 2024
READ MORE: Cirrus Adds Second Vision Jet Simulator In this scenario, the options are a 180-degree turn using only rudder to avoid overbanking—common when you lose the outside horizon reference—to get back to VFR conditions or contacting ATC to ask where the nearest VFR is. It might be no greater than 6 knots with gusts to 10 mph.
Gary's Flight Journal
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
I completed my pre flight with only needing to sump fuel on departure day. My Garmin 480 is updated and I have my flight plan ready for entry after planning on Foreflight. Our ride at six thousand five was smooth despite the brutal headwinds at thirty plus knots. Saturday 11.4 Monday 11.6 Wednesday 11.8
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