Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

The pilot was the passenger’s boyfriend. The boyfriend was a VFR private pilot with about 380 hours logged, properly certificated, and current. Approaching their destination, the pilot asked Memphis Center ATC for an airport weather report. The pilot S-turned and circled the area several times at about 2,500 feet.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The pilot had planned a day trip for himself and two passengers from Myerstown, Pennsylvania, to Washington, Indiana. The private pilot had 380 hours, with over 200 of those in PA-32s. He didn’t have an instrument rating. And this summer afternoon did have weather. What the pilot knew of these is unknown.

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AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

It involved an in-flight breakup; and the pilot was a doctor. This is often the result of the aircraft picking up excessive airspeed as a result of pilot disorientation in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), followed by an abrupt pitch-up after exiting the bottom of the cloud.

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Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI Two of the most important pieces of information that every pilot needs to know while flying is how high you are and how fast you’re going. Pilots rely on the airspeed indicator and altimeter instruments to measure and display this vital information. As the diaphragm moves, the needle of the ASI moves.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

How much “actual instrument” flight time do you have? Chances are, if you’re a VFR pilot, you do not have any unless it was with an instructor. If you’re an instrument rated pilot, however, you should have some flight time logged in what FAR 61.51 considers “solely by reference to instruments in actual conditions.”

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 4, 2023

by Gustin Robinson, FAA CFI-I ASEL Flying under instrument meteorological conditions keeps even a good pilot on their toes. As a student pilot you were always taught “see and avoid”, keep your eyes outside, etc. Remember that weather conditions vary the further away you get. Have any questions?

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Spatial disorientation can catch even the most experienced pilots off guard. Key Takeaways Spatial disorientation mainly occurs in low-visibility conditions. Pilots should ignore their “gut” and trust their instruments. Avoid flying in IMC and low visibility conditions. Why do pilots lose control?

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. We spent some time in instrument meteorological conditions over Vermont.

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Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Falcon 2000 EASy Contributing Writer Pilot in a Gulfstream G650 sim at CAE. This is a view of corporate aviation unfamiliar to the passengers, where pilots practice normal, abnormal, and emergency procedures. F light simulator sessions are essential to professional pilot training and certification. Completing the annual 61.58

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This article will teach you ways to deal with weather, routes, altitude choices, and using helpful tools when flying in poor visibility. Key Takeaways Creating an IFR flight plan requires looking at weather patterns, fuel requirements, and alternate airports. At least 1 instrument approach procedure.

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Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 29, 2024

It was not something that I dreamed of even as a student pilot and two decades on, I sometimes struggle to grasp the reality of it. Needing to fly two missed approaches at Sodus due to low weather. It was my first time going missed outside of a training exercise in a decade of being instrument rated. Hours in IMC: 8.7 / 87.8

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

Go-arounds are among the easiest tasks a pilot can perform. Pilots avoid go-arounds because it is seen as an admission of guilt. Pilots perform the maneuver when a landing is unsafe or can result in an incident. Pilots perform the maneuver when a landing is unsafe or can result in an incident. What Is a Go-Around?

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 13, 2023

Execjet" is the callsign used by NetJets and the pilot's intentions were broadcast across the ramp by loudspeaker. This was puzzling because the ceiling should have been high enough for the pilot to acquire the airport visually at minimums. At the operations building, the two women were distressed by their pilot's failure to land.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

As our trip to Sleepy Hollow neared, forecasts for IFR weather inspired a shuffling of airplanes and pilots so that our seven adventurers were distributed among three IFR-capable airplanes with current IFR pilots. The airport as a whole most certainly did not cater to our pilot demographic. Better safe than sorry.

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