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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
  • 11/06/2025
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  When Do You Need To File An Alternate Under IFR?

  Do you need to file an alternate? And if so, what are the weather minimums for your alternate airport?

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  • Boldmethod
  • 11/01/2025
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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
  • 11/01/2025
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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
  • 10/30/2025

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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
  • 10/28/2025
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  How To Fly A Surveillance Approach (ASR)

  When you fly a surveillance approach, you'll fly a full instrument approach using zero navigational equipment. Here's how it works.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/25/2025
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  Why Are There Mandatory Cloud Clearance Requirements?

  Imagine you're skimming a cloud bank and another aircraft suddenly flies out of the cloud right in front of you...

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/25/2025
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  Special VFR Clearance: How To Use It

  A Special VFR Clearance can get you into or out of an airport with low ceilings and visibility. But do you know when you can use it, and if it's a good idea?

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/16/2025
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  Tips To Avoid Fog After Sunset

  In partnership with AssuredPartners

  It's officially fall, and if you fly after sunset, you need to be on the lookout for unexpected fog formation.

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  • Colin Cutler
  • 10/09/2025

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  What Is A Clearance Void Time?

  Have you ever heard "clearance void if not off by 1235 Zulu?" It all comes down to one-in, one-out rules for ATC managing IFR traffic at non-towered airports.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 10/04/2025
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  Pilots Receive ATC Low Altitude Alert From The Wrong Altimeter Setting

  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
  • 10/02/2025
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  Sun Glare Causes Near Miss During Landing Rollout

  In partnership with AssuredPartners

  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
  • 09/25/2025
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  What Makes An Instrument Approach Unstable?

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

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  • Boldmethod
  • 09/20/2025
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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
  • 09/11/2025
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  Can You Fly A Visual Go-Around On An Instrument Approach Clearance?

  After flying an instrument approach, a pilot performed a visual go-around after floating down the runway and re-entered the traffic pattern in visual conditions.

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  • Boldmethod
  • 09/06/2025