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Flying From Here to There
One challenge I enjoyed most learning to fly was flying from one place to another. In the aviation business, they call this flying cross-country. It truly is a great challenge and immensely fun. It is also a fascinating science. The … Continue reading →
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Tagged charts, checkpoints, flying cross-country, Flying From Here to There, following directions, going from point A to point B, GPS, instruments, most fascinating navigators, navigation at sea, navigational instruments, printed timetables, rudimentary sextants, the ancient Polynesians, the Hawaiian Islands, the Pacific Ocean, when technology fails
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The Instrument Flying Season
We are moving into the “instrument time of the year.” It is a precarious season, a season in which the weather can be capricious at best and downright dangerous at worst. Caught in the middle with everything to lose or … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying
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Tagged cold fronts, instrument approach minimums, instrument flying, instrument proficiency, instruments, judgment, local weather, national weather, newly instrument-rated pilot, non-precision approach, poor visibility, precision approach, private aircraft, shooting approaches, stratus type clouds, warm fronts, weather, “breaking out”, “on the gauges”
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