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Airport ID’s In the 48 contiguous states of the US, (almost universally) merely adding a K to the beginning of …

“adverse”- acting in the opposite direction, opposing. A bane to pilots and aircraft designers, perhaps behind only drag, weight, and …

Water in blue 100 octane low lead fuel (100LL) looks exactly like an air bubble, but on the bottom of …

The FAA requires (91.159) that a VFR (visual flight rules) flight that is CRUISING higher than 3,000 AGL (above ground …

One of the most important parts of the preflight inspection, aka walk around, is the fuel check. On many light …

“On short final, we were in light chop and rain, then we had a 10 knot gain, followed by a …

As you can see from the illustration, the flapped wing has both a higher coefficient of lift (CL) and a …

This is a print out of from years ago. The taxiways listed at the very bottom of this post were …

Virga at sunset “I saw rain falling from a cloud. It didn’t seem to be hitting the ground. I was …

These maneuvers are aerodynamically the same: opposite rudder to the current aileron. The named direction of the slip is based …

Operating Experience (“OE”) is the final stage of training for an airline pilot new to an airplane or seat, i.e., …

I think the “hey you” (1), “it’s me” (2), “I’m here” (3), “I’m doing or going to do this” (4), …

Care for an airplane’s ignition switch is often overlooked. If there are too many keys (weight) on the ring, hanging …

Dutch Roll An aerodynamic property of an airplane design that couples yaw with roll. Swept wing planes can be particularly …

Spoiler alert… Spoilers are often used on jet transports to aid the ailerons. These hydraulically operated hinged panels rise from …

Yesterday I stopped by Sewanee-Franklin County (UOS- University of the South) airport to look at a tan Cessna 172 I’d …