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by Doug Marshall
What happens if you read back a clearance and comply, but ATC claims you busted altitude? The findings of a recent court case might surprise you.
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by Doug Marshall
Suppose your best buddy wants to impress his latest girlfriend with a quick spin around the city in your airplane. You’ve flown with him a few times and feel confident in his ability. True, you’ve never loaned your aircraft to anyone before, but what’s the worst that could happen?
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by Doug Marshall
In enforcement actions, the FAA has the option of initiating a certificate action (read: suspension or revocation) or assessing a civil penalty. In some cases, they may pursue both.
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by Doug Marshall
An airman's certificate is an airman's certificate is an airman's certificate, except when it is a medical certificate, or is it?
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by Doug Marshall
'Honest, ociffer, all I had was boo tears - or maybe she was a gas of wine.....'
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by Doug Marshall
Congratulations! You are the proud owner of your first airplane -- a high-performance, retractable, at that.
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by J.C. Boylls
The responsibilities of being pilot in command are great - and some are not so obvious.
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by Paul A. Craig
Did you know that a moving Prohibited Area always follows the President of the United States where ever he goes? The Federal Aviation Regulations make it illegal to fly over or near the President.
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by Paul A. Craig
Flying to one of America's National Parks and seeing the landscape that makes that area special is one of the greatest thing you can do with your pilot's certificate -- if you know what you're doing.
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by Jeff Pardo
Remember the Cessna 182 that blundered into the prohibited airspace around Washington DC recently -- the one that meandered within four miles of the White House -- he didn’t mean any harm, right? Well I’ve got a hot flash for you...
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by George Wilhelmsen
In this business, I have to keep my finger on the pulse of aviation. Imagine my surprise when I received a memo from the National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA), noting that on the subject of airport security, that complacency is not an effective countermeasure against terrorist attacks.
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by Thomas Turner
If you’re flying under a U.S.-issued pilot certificate, your days are numbered.
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by Jeff Pardo
Our national airspace system sure isn't getting any less complicated, but any long-awaited rescue through increasingly available and ostensibly more accurate means of navigation seems instead to have come at the expense of positional awareness: i.e., we're losing it!
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by George Wilhelmsen
Did you read that right? Bad C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T-S was the title, not contacts. Believe it or not, some airport contracts (hangar leases) have some real hum-dingers in them.
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by Jeff Pardo
Last time, we looked at prohibited and restricted airspace. This time we're going to discuss the other four types in detail (plus an additional thing or two). As you may recall, these remaining types comprise what is known as non-regulatory Special Use Airspace, or SUA.
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by Jeff Pardo
...a few things you didn't know about prohibited airspace incursions, and a few things that the Secret Service, FAA, NASA, and Slimy Contractors are considering in the Back Room.
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by Thomas Turner
Remember when airspace rules were about avoiding collisions with other airplanes? Return with me now to those days of yore, when Class B airspace and MOAs were designed to keep us safe, not secure.
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by George Wilhelmsen
The NBAA reports that with the arrival of spring and more VFR days, the government has seen a dramatic increase in the weekend violations of the Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ) around Washington, DC and New York City, when compared to VFR winter weekends. This gives the Feds reason to get antsy, and the Office of Homeland Security has another excuse to curtail our right to fly!
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by Thomas Turner
Airplane owners know the dread -- that Number 10 envelope in the mail from the Federal Aviation Administration. Using your airplane registration information (you did update the FAA last time you moved, didn't you?) they've hunted you down to tell you... it's time to spend more money on your airplane.
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by Jeff Pardo
Wouldn't it be nice to have the privileges of an instrument pilot but retain the VFR freedoms of choosing your own path in the clear blue? Well, for those of you who have earned an instrument ticket, there are a few strategies at our disposal that might be worth reviewing. There's nothing underhanded about them either; these options aren't ploys or smooth moves. They're well defined ATC procedures. The only "trick" is knowing the few strings that are attached. Here's how to use the system without abusing it...
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