Can you think of an unavoidable danger that affects all pilots? It reduces exterior AND interior visibility, degrades situational awareness, and leaves you with a physical headache.
When you're training for a new certificate or rating, you practice. A lot. But after you pass your checkride, how often do you practice maneuvers and procedures? The reality for most pilots is "rarely". Raw stick-and-rudder skills fade over time without practice, so try incorporating these maneuvers into your next flight.
Every pilot dreams of perfectly smooth air, but turbulence often interferes with your approach to landing. Here's how to fly the best approach possible through rough air.
Here's a great example where a crew, with passengers already on board, caught a mix-up on the ground that would have caused major problems had they taken off.