Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Almost as an afterthought, we told them that while we’d be busy building our hangar/apartment for the 2022-23 season, we’d come fly with them in December 2023. Crossing the Cook Strait on a typically raucous ferry ride following a 40-knot blow, we spent another eight days road tripping through the South Island.

Knot 117

Knot Weather Airplanes Ceiling 117

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. In solid soup, approaching minimums, the pilot friend in the right seat said, “I’ve got the lights.”

Knot 68

Knot Weather Density Altitude True Airspeed 68

Fear of Landing

JULY 19, 2024

On the 26th of May 2024, a private pilot in a Cessna T210 Centurion II suffered an engine failure while downwind at Bankstown Airport in New South Wales, Australia. Pilot of VH-MYW : Bankstown …Tower, MYW is approaching the [undecipherable]. Pilot of VH-MYW : Join 29R, maintain 1,500. The reservoir. Mayday, mayday.

Runway 90

Runway Pilot Approach Drag 90

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. In solid soup, approaching minimums, the pilot friend in the right seat said, “I’ve got the lights.”

Knot 61

Knot Weather Density Altitude True Airspeed 61

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

I’ve been flying jets for years as a corporate pilot, but not real jets to some … like fighter jets. When opportunity knocked with an offer to fly an Aero Vodochody L–39 Albatros (one “s” in the Czech spelling)—a single-engine bird still used as a basic trainer for some nation’s fighter pilots—I jumped at the chance.

Knot 52

Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. Further complicating matters was the fact that the plane would be delivered by civilian pilots.

Runway 86

Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 86

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Axtell performed a few additional race-centric modifications, including a stinger-style tailcone, but never attempted to compete with the aircraft and it was stored in a T-hangar at Jefferson County Airport (BJC) in Broomfield, Colorado. On September 12, Ensign Biedleman, USNR, became the first pilot to fully qualify under the program.

Weight-Shift-Control 98

Weight-Shift-Control Pilot Flight Deck Knot 98

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado. It’s your Pilot in Command responsibility under 91.103. feet per minute). Multiply 1.5

Density Altitude 95

Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 95

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He flew F-86As and F-100As in the Arizona Air National Guard until 1960 when he was hired by Lockheed as an F-104 production test pilot. In 1963, he attended the United States Air Force Aerospace Research Pilots School at Edwards AFB, California. ” Unlike many pilots Darryl recalls the ejection with vivid detail.

Horizontal Stabilizer 124

Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Approach Stability 124

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This 172 had a flap extension speed of 85 knots, and my old Cessna 172’s limit was 100 mph, or 87 knots. It had undergone some repair work done after experiencing soot and smoke damage from a fire in a nearby hangar. It’s curious to me that we pilots shoot LPV approaches, but ATC doesn’t know what they are.

Pitot Tube 61

Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 61

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

It was evidence that high wing pilots who buy low wing airplanes need to process their surroundings in a different way. Parked in front of my first hangar in South Haven, 05 April 2004. Soiled hangar floor visible at the South Haven Airport, 25 September 2004. These kinds of events change a pilot's behavior.

Airplanes 52

Airplanes Knot Avionics Master Switch Runway 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming Air Facts Journal Second Lieutenant Arnold Reiner Marine Corps recruitment brochures in the early ’60s described three pilot training pipelines: jets, transports and helicopters. We were grouped in sections of about 15 to 20 student pilots.

Cockpit 98

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 15, 2024

Within the pilot community, Port Meadville is best known as the home of the $100 hot dog. (At A mere five minute walk takes pilots from the airport parking apron to the start of the line for ordering at Eddie's. At least in the Northeast considering that Sporty's at Clermont County Airport in Ohio is much farther away.)

Approach 52

Approach Pilot Runway Pilot in Command 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. After turning the corner, I was rewarded with tailwinds of up to 22 knots, so the big detour cost me only 15 minutes. Full flaps and 80 knots, trimmed, the airplane asked, is this what I really wanted? There was also a link to a bridge for sale. No complaints.

Weather 60

Weather Runway Knot Rudder 60

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

On the 19th of February 2023, a private pilot arranged to meet with a flight instructor at Birr Airfield to fly a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The club is a registered training facility with a membership of pilots, students and enthusiasts. Surface Wind South-west 7-12 knots (kt). That morning, the flight instructor arrived early.

Runway 52

Runway Pilot Knot Weather 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. After turning the corner, I was rewarded with tailwinds of up to 22 knots, so the big detour cost me only 15 minutes. Full flaps and 80 knots, trimmed, the airplane asked, is this what I really wanted? There was also a link to a bridge for sale. No complaints.

Weather 52

Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

By number, pilots and dispatchers are the primary consumers of METARs. The weather observations in METARs provide pilots with the information to determine what takeoff or landing procedures should be used. Winds over 15 knots are indicated by flashing yellow lights. They all follow the same format. C ( 12°F)/-11.0°C

Weather 52

Weather Ceiling Knot Visual Flight Rules 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In this day and age, finding a hangar, or even a tie-down spot, is a major undertaking, given the collapsing number of airports. It does nothing exceptionally well, but it does everything adequately, asking little of its pilot but some common-sense flying ability. These Cherokee types make few demands new pilots can’t meet.

Airplanes 52

Airplanes Knot Tail Annual Inspection 52

Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I also secured hangar space for the week to the tune of $75 a night. Mary had the garlic knots along with the Italian chop salad. Wednesday 5/1 I’m up early and as all pilots do, I’m checking weather for our return home. We sat in the pilot lunge and enjoyed our lunch. We finished breakfast and headed to the airport.

Runway 98

Runway Approach Weather VOR 98

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport DC3 Hangar photographed by by Don Ramey Logan in 2013. A pilot who goes by Coyote Stan commented : “Everyone should get an opportunity to land and take off from this runway. That day, the Piper Arrow was carrying two flight instructors and a student pilot from Proteus Aero, a flight school based in Santa Monica.

Runway 52

Runway Altimeter Pilot Lift 52

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

And so we landed without any issue and taxied via Charlie to the Apron, arriving at the first location of the Blue Spruce Routes because we saw all the old WW2 hangars in various state of repair or disrepair … Wick is a classic stop-over for ferry pilots in both directions. So we could continue to Iceland.

Weather 52

Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Pilots who regularly operate at high elevation airports are (or should be) familiar with planning this type of flying. The “Six” can seat 6 (pilot + 5 passengers) in a 2-2-2 seating configuration. Although not a problem for airliners, flying at high altitude airports presents challenges for pilots of small piston aircraft.

Density Altitude 52

Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Gary's Flight Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

As we reached the mid peninsula we were rocked by strong wind gusts between 40 and 49 knots at six thousand five hundred. I needed to loose altitude so I circled around and worked my way down to a safe altitude and activated the auto pilot for heading and altitude to perform the emergency gear dump just to be safe.

Weather 52

Weather VOR Knot Hangar 52

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

After graduating from DePauw University, where he earned his private pilot’s license through the US government-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP), Vraciu enlisted in the U.S. Vraciu would recall later that in fact, he and his fellow Hellcat pilots were looking forward to this mission.

Cockpit 128

Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability 128

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Lola was among the first female commercial pilots, breaking barriers in aviation when airliners were almost exclusively male territory. Lola went on to become a commercial airline transport pilot, flight instructor, SCUBA divemaster, and an award-winning author and photographer. of all pilots in the US were female. “Yes.”

Weather 96

Weather Knot Pilot Distance Measuring Equipment 96

Air Facts

MAY 29, 2024

From the archive: round trip to Europe in an Aero Commander Air Facts Journal Editor’s Note: Flying over the North Atlantic presents a multitude of challenges that make it a daunting task for pilots and aircraft alike, but can you imagine making this trip 70 years ago? From Where?

Weather 80

Weather Jet Pilot Descent 80

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As I passed Kelley's Island, wind streaks in the water out of the southwest indicated a wind of six to eight knots, exactly as forecast. Pilots operating to and from the airport are warned to avoid the Perry Memorial by at least 1,000 feet. Moments later, the pilot emerged and helped four women disembark. That's a long way!"

Runway 98

Runway Approach Knot Drag 98

Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

Back in the late 90s the FBO at the time (Atlantic) had crew cars for transient pilots. It still has lots of aviation including vendors, pilots and enthusiasts. On Wednesday night, Marvin and I attended a meet and greet hosted by the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA). This meant that I was up at 4:00 am.

Weather 96

Weather Knot Ceiling Turbulence 96

Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

On the 15th of October 2023, a private pilot rented a Cessna 172M from Air Gold Coast for a private flight from Gold Coast Airport, Queensland, to Murwilumbah, New South Wales. The pilot continued to take dual and solo flights with the operator; however, on the day of the accident, it had been 121 days since the pilot’s last flight.

Threshold 70

Threshold Runway Approach Pilot 70

Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Maintain appropriate airspeed +0/-10 knots, and level off at a specified altitude ±100 feet. If the descent is conducted in turbulent conditions, the pilot must also comply with the design maneuvering speed (VA) limitations. Since aviation for work isn’t enough, she also lives in a hangar home on the west side of Houston!

Descent 52

Descent Aeronautical Decision-Making Airplanes Turbulence 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When spelled geoduck it represents a grotesque, oversized mollusk, or clam to we pilot simpletons. Much depends on the aircraft’s weight, pilot skill and, surprisingly, “how much abuse you want to experience. Checking the oil is the main attraction to the pilot. But it will go 140 knots at 28 gph total.)

Airplanes 62

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 62

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. It was our completion center for our CF23 version of the aircraft, but it was a small hangar and warehouse. distributor for Flight Design aircraft.

Rudder 87

Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind 87

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Mr. Hughes had a joy stick installed to the left of the pilot’s seat so he could control the pitch and bank of the aircraft. The nose or bow was designed for clam-shell doors to admit cargo, but Mr. Hughes (or someone) determined to install a solid nose apparently out of concern for the integrity of the hull.

Flight Deck 128

Flight Deck Airplanes Hangar Cargo 128