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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack (Part II)

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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack—Part 2: Analysis, Questions Raised, and Next Steps 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). for several general aviation airplanes.

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CEO Of The Cockpit: The Good Old Days

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We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. Weather, especially dangerous weather, was an unseen and sometimes surprising thing before we could access and watch it on a screen in our humble general aviation spam cans. They used to contain cigarette lighters, which were used all the time to light cigarettes.

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Class B Airspace Explained

Pilot Institute

From entry and weather requirements to interacting with ATC, we have you covered. Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS). Keeping track of all the rules and regulations might seem like too much.

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In Search of the Headless Horseman

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Located directly on the Hudson River roughly thirty miles north of New York City, Sleepy Hollow is easily accessed by General Aviation and seven Williamson Flying Club members planned a Halloween pilgrimage there to follow the trail of the Headless Horseman. As the clouds broke up, we could see the Catskills lurking beneath.

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How to Talk to ATC (Beginner’s Guide)

Pilot Institute

It’s used for aircraft registration, airport taxiways, holding points, weather broadcasts, and more. We’re at the general aviation ramp with Information Alpha. Taxiing Pilot: Maryville Traffic, N123AB, general aviation ramp, taxiing to runway two-nine, Maryville Traffic. squawk four two nine six.

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Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 1, Of PINs and Prop Locks

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Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. Although 9/11 marked the weaponization of commercial aircraft, the aftereffects are felt most keenly by General Aviation.

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Round Dials or Glass Cockpits?

Plane and Pilot

The Legacy General Aviation Fleet The beauty of so many legacy single-engine GA aircraft is that, when cared for properly, their aluminum airframes are quite resilient and resistant to fatigue. Maybe this is due to the slide rule and drafting table generation that designed them. However, the reverse is not true. are numbered.

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