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Sorry for the brief hiatus from posting these videos, things have been busy for us here at The Flight Academy. This is good news, but it doesn't leave me a lot of spare time to indulge my writing habit. Hopefully things will quiet down enough in the near future for me to write more. I have a couple...
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It happens every year: G.A. pilots find themselves in icing with no easy outs. Terrain limits descent, the clouds are too high (or the ice too thick) to climb, and the only way to exit visible moisture is to deviate and land via an impromptu approach ... and the ice continues to build while the decision...
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Inserting a Waypoint in the Flight Plan In the IFR world, ATC may occasionally add new legs to a flight plan after the pilot has taken off. These deviations are given for a number of reasons varying from closed airspace, traffic avoidance, and even weather. Often, the deviation will include a point between...
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Hi Folks! It has been quite a while since I have updated this blog and for that I apologize. The good news is that I have been very busy working on an accelerated instrument rating with a client. He took his test today and passed the oral in record time... and would have done the same for the flight...
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The following piece was written by a client of The Flight Academy who came over to get a US version of a Private License and then add on his Instrument Rating. He was kind enough to detail the experience and I thought I'd share it here. -------- The objective of my trip was to finally obtain my FAA...
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The discussion in the thread about the Front Royal accident had me thinking and I ended up writing a reply that got... longer than I originally thought it would. So... I thought I would share what I wrote here for those who did not see that thread. My point, spun off from this accident, is that we need...
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A while ago, Luke received an email from a client who had been chatting with him about the regs as they pertain to filing an alternate on an IFR flight plan. What most instructors say about alternates is probably not worth more than a quick mention here since most of you have heard it so many times:...
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By Austin Kemink Early in my instructing career I was teaching at the University of Alaska in Anchorage when I had my first experience with a true mountain wave. Why do I call it a “true” mountain wave? Simply put, our aircraft didn't have sufficient power to maintain altitude or airspeed...
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"Activate Vectors-To-Final?" Written by Erin Oliver You are nearing your destination on an IFR flight, and have just left the airway on an ATC vector to the final approach course. You now want to activate the approach procedure that you had previously loaded in to your Garmin GPS flight plan...