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  • Activate Vectors to Final? Nope.

    "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...

  • Thundersnow!

    Written by Luke Lysen Today in Seattle (Kirkland actually) we had a weather phenomenon that I had never heard of before, Thundersnow. It is a very cool anomaly. It kind of makes you rethink thunderstorms and what causes them. Typically we think of hot...

  • Icing Tips

    Over in the SR forums there's a good discussion going about icing. Plenty of stories, pictures, and advice. I thought I'd repost my response to that over here in my blog, but please do check out the thread: http://live.cirruspilots.org/forums...
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  • Flying to Canada

    International border crossing is a process like any other. Once you know the steps and have a handle on the procedure it'll be just like any other. In this post, I'll discuss some of the things that are important to know before you go, some tips...
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  • Winter's coming!

    It's time to sharpen your skills for the winter flying coming up! Winter always brings with it the unique challenges of blustery days, slick runways, icing, lower IFR weather, and higher winds at lower altitudes. Physiological concerns are also present...
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  • CDM course - Missoula

    Thanks to everybody who came to the CDM course organized by Steve Powell last weekend! I had a good time meeting everybody, talking with you, and presenting the information we had. The discussion was excellent and even the food was top notch! For those...
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  • The Latest Eureka

    Something that instructors are particularly fond of, part of the job that keeps us going, is when our clients finally “get” something. Austin describes his latest and offers a few observations that even veteran pilots would do well to remember...
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  • Handling Emergencies

    After reading about Neil's harrowing experience http://live.cirruspilots.org/forums/p/25493/83937.aspx#83937 , the idea struck me to pass around a basic list of which emergency checklists pilots ought to have memorized. We send the attached list to...
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