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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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  What Makes An Instrument Approach Unstable?

  In partnership with AssuredPartners

  Unstabilized approaches are one of the leading causes of accidents on landing.

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  • Swayne Martin
  • 11/14/2024
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  Floating Down The Runway? Here's How To Fix It.

  It's frustrating to watch stripe after stripe pass underneath your nose, well past where you planned to touch down. Worse yet, your airspeed just isn't bleeding off.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 11/12/2024
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  Would You Go? MVFR Conditions With A Chance For Icing

  Making go/no-go decisions isn't always easy, especially when it comes to cold weather and IFR flying.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 11/09/2024

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  How Freezing Rain, Freezing Drizzle, And Freezing Fog Form

  At the surface, freezing drizzle might seem like just a smaller version of freezing rain. While this may be true in some ways, the process that forms each is different.

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  • Nicolas Shelton
  • 11/05/2024
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  Pilots Receive ATC Low Altitude Alert From The Wrong Altimeter Setting

  In partnership with Lightspeed

  A student and instructor received a "low altitude alert" from ATC after forgetting to reset their altimeter before an instrument approach.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/29/2024
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  The Dangers Of Mountain Wave, And How To Avoid It

  Trapped lee waves propagate out horizontally, and they can extend hundreds of miles downwind of the mountain barrier that creates them. Here's how they form, and how you can avoid them.

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  • Colin Cutler
  • 10/10/2024
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  Nighttime Crash Highlights The Dangers of Disorientation

  In partnership with AssuredPartners

  But unless you fly frequently at night in dimly lit areas, it's hard to truly grasp how disorienting total darkness can be.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/08/2024
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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

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  Mountain Wave Turbulence: Where You Find It, And How To Avoid It

  There are two primary types of mountain waves: trapped lee waves, and vertically propagating waves. In this article, we'll focus on trapped lee waves, and the types of turbulence you can expect flying through them.

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  • Corey Komarec
  • 09/19/2024
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  Sun Glare Causes Near Miss During Landing Rollout

  Glare reduces your visibility and degrades your situational awareness. Here are 3 tips to help reduce it in flight.

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  • Colin Cutler
  • 09/12/2024
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  Piper Cherokee Lands Fast And Overruns In The Rain

  Adverse weather, rain or snow, can make a normal landing a lot more challenging, especially if you're not stabilized on final approach.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 09/10/2024
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  When Is A SPECI Issued?

  An Aviation Selected Special Weather Report (SPECI) is an unscheduled report taken when there is a significant change in the weather during the period between the hourly reports. SPECIs contain all data elements found in a METAR, plus additional plain language information which elaborates on data in the body of the report.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 09/07/2024
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  Can You Depart IFR From An Airport With No SID And No ODP?

  You're about to depart an airport under IFR with low ceilings. There's no SID and no ODP. When can you start your on-course turn, and why? It's called a "diverse departure assessment", and here's how it works.

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  • Swayne Martin
  • 09/03/2024
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  Case Study: Upslope Flow Convergence Thunderstorms

  If you fly over mountainous or rough terrain you'll see cumulus clouds and thunderstorms popping up in the same place day after day, on top of the ridgeline. Why is this?

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  • Nicolas Shelton
  • 08/23/2024