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  Ground Effect: Why Your Plane Floats During Landing

  If your approach to landing is too fast, ground effect can get the best of you, as you float, and float, and float down the runway.

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  • Colin Cutler
  • 02/20/2025
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  What's The Maximum Safe Descent Rate On An Instrument Approach?

  Have you ever seen your descent rate exceed 1,000 feet per minute on an instrument approach? Here's why you should take corrective action if it happens.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 02/11/2025
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  When Should You Use Trim?

  When should you trim in flight? It's a question we get asked quite a bit. Here's what you should know.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 02/08/2025
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  How To Land With An Asymmetric Flap Failure

  In partnership with AssuredPartners

  What happens if you need to fly your airplane in a split-flap condition? Here's what you should know.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 02/06/2025

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  The Four Steps Of Spin Recovery, Explained

  Have you ever practiced a spin? If you have (and even if you haven't), you've probably heard the recovery acronym "PARE". So how do you fly each step in the PARE maneuver? We'll explain...

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  • Colin Cutler
  • 01/23/2025
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  Why Aircraft Weight Affects Climb Performance

  In partnership with AOPA

  If you've ever flown an airplane at max gross weight, you've definitely noticed a decrease in climb performance compared to when you're light. Here's why it happens.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 01/21/2025
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  Freezing Rain: How It Forms

  According to the FAA, freezing rain is created when snow falls through a warm layer, then through a sub-zero layer of air.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 01/02/2025
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  Ice-Covered Pitot Tube Results In Low-Altitude Alert From ATC

  You're flying an ILS through icing conditions and your airspeed suddenly begins decreasing. Your pitot tube is covered in ice. What would you do? Here's what happened to this pilot.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 12/31/2024
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  How To Correct A High Flare During Landing

  We've all done it. You apply back pressure and start your flare. The runway below you appears abnormally far away and you're decelerating quickly.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 12/17/2024

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  Tips To Maintain Directional Control After You Touch Down On A Crosswind Landing

  Flying a crosswind landing doesn't stop when your wheels touch the ground. Here's how to maintain your crosswind correction, and centerline, from touchdown through roll out.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 11/19/2024
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  Pilot Stalls In Icing Conditions And Recovers Below The Minimum IFR Altitude

  Icing conditions can rapidly deteriorate your performance in a piston aircraft. Here's what happened to one pilot in an IMC flight over mountainous terrain.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 11/16/2024
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  Should You Trim During Landing?

  Is it a good idea to use trim to help with back pressure during landing?

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  • Nicolas Shelton
  • 10/12/2024
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  How To Recover From A Balloon During Your Landing Flare

  At some point, a balloon on landing happens to all of us. Here's what you can do to make a safe landing after happens to you.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/05/2024
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  How To Avoid Wake Turbulence During Takeoff and Landing

  When's the last time you heard "caution - wake turbulence" from an air traffic controller? Did you think about what it really meant to you?

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  • Colin Cutler
  • 10/01/2024
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  What's Your Limit For Landing In Gusty Winds?

  Just like strong crosswinds or low clouds, you should have personal limitations for gust factor when you're approaching your destination.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 09/26/2024