IFA Aviation Safety Information

• Accident Avoidance
  
• Accident Information
• ADS-B
  
• Aerobatics
  
• Aircraft Information
  
• Airport Operations
  
• Density Altitude Flying
  
• FAA Regulations/Information - Logbook - Misc Forms
  
• Flight School
  
• Fuel Management
  
• Landing/Approaches
  
• Master CFI's Safety Tips
  
• Mountain Flying
  
• Night Flying
  
• Pilot Training & Proficiency
  
• Preflight
  
• Safety Devices
• Takeoffs
  
• Weather Related
  
• Winter Flying
  

Accident Avoidance

• The 1977 Tenerife Airport Disaster Revisted
• Airplane Engine Failure Procedure
• At Ease In The ADIZ
• Beware of Birds and Wildlife During this Fall Migration
• Characteristics of Mid-Airs
• Checklist Checkup
• Clearing with TIS or TCAD
• Decoding Automation Before It Derails Your Flight
• Determination, Communication, and the Worst Disaster in Aviation History
• The "Dirty Harry" Principle
• Emergency Management
• Engine Failure and Off-Field Landing Choices
• The FAA Safety Team Takes Aim at Aircraft Accidents
• Flight Controls, Maintenance and Fresh Warm Air
• Get-Home-Itis
• The Human Side of Decision Making
• Jet Lag: The Hidden Costs of Travel
• Lights, Please!
• Me? Lose Control? You Gotta be…Uh Oh!
• Midair
• Nature’s Protected Areas: A Potential Risk To Aircraft
• Practicing for Judgment Day
• Reasons for Declaring an Emergency
• Scanning for Traffic
• Slow Steady Sure
• Splat - The Story of Snarge
• Stalls and Spins a Mistake and a Manuever
• Tapestry of Disaster: An Accident Story
• Those That Have and Those That Will….What you can do before the engine fails
• Tips on TIPH
• Top 10 Signs You (or Your Airplane) May Be in Trouble
• Weapons of Mass Distraction
• What If
• Why are Routine Flight Operations Killing Pilots and their Passengers?

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Accident Information

• Aviation Accident Increase In 2003
• Ditching in Water vs Trees
• First Response to Aircraft Accidents, Civil Aircraft Accident Strategies and Guidelines
• Handle With Care - Avoiding Accidents at an Accident Scene
• Is Fate the Hunter?
• Maneuvering Flight
• NTSB Aviation Accident Statistics
• Our Finest Hour
• Prepared For Anything
• SARSAT A Lifeline To Survival
• Search And Rescue

ADS-B

• ADS-B—A New Technology For Traffic Identification
• ADS-B 101 - What It Is, What It Means to You
• Get Ready for ADS-B
• Top 10 Things You Need to Know about ADS-B
• How to Avoid an ADS-B Call Sign Mismatch

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Aerobatics

• Safety First: Performing An Aerial Ballet
• The Right Way Back to Right Side Up
• Tutima Academy of Aviation Safety Sean D. Tucker

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Aircraft Information

• The ABCs of ADs
• Aircraft Certification 101
• Airworthiness: What You Should Know
• Airworthy or Not?
• From The Logbook: The Annual Inspection . . . With Some Surprises Removed
• Anticipation - Registering Light Sport Aircraft
• Blinded by the Light
• Breaking the Code
• Carburetor Icing
• Future of Electric-Powered Aircraft
• Is Your Aircraft Winterized?
• Knowing Your Airplane
• Light-Sport Aircraft/Sport Pilot Timelines are Approaching
• Modern Aircraft Electrical Systems - How well do you know your aircraft?
• More than Math
• Read Any Good Logbooks Lately?
• So What’s All This About VLJs
• From the Logbook: Transitioning to a Twin? . . . Are You Ready For Twice as Much?
• Too Old to Fly?
• TRIKES – Just How Safe Are They?
• Trust But Verify
• Using the Four Forces to Maintain Aircraft Control

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Airport Operations

ATC

• ATC Headings
• ATC Separation for Wake Turbulence
• ATC - Using the Word "Roger"
• Calling ATC for Clearances
• Contacting Ground After Landing
• How ATC Can Assist With In-Flight Emergencies
• How to Frustrate ATC
• Requesting Flight Following
• Talking to Busy Controllers
• Working with ATC

Taxiing/Runway

• 10 Ways to Help Prevent Runway Incursion
• Airport Surface Operations At Non-Towered Airports And Airports When The Tower Is Closed
• How a Runway Earns It's Stripes
• It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over - Taxiing
• Notam - a.k.a New Opportunities To Avoid Mistakes… on the Runway
• Planning Your Taxi
• Runway Incursion Versus “Incursion” on the Runway
• Situational Awareness; Test Your Runway Safety Knowledge!
• Taxiing Across Runways
• Taxiing at Night
• Transponder On During Taxi?

• Airport Beacon Operations
• Airports of the Future
• Airports with Over Water Approaches
• Airports with "RP"
• Any Traffic - Please Advise
• At Ease In The ADIZ
• Avoiding Traffic
• Benefits of Flight Following
• Class C Airspace
• Compressed Gas Is Not for Wimps
• Copying an IFR Clearance
• Departing the Traffic Pattern
• Did You Know Your Airplane Has a Phone For Calls To AFSS
• Don't Cower from the Tower
• First Response to Aircraft Accidents, Civil Aircraft Accident Strategies and Guidelines
• Flying Near Class "B" Airspace
• Flying Under Class B Airspace
• Getting IFA Clearance at a Non-Towered Airport
• Getting IFR Clearances Airborne
• Going Green
• IFA Squawk Codes
• Lake Tahoe
• Lost Comm
• More Than Machinery
• Movement Area
• Non-Towered Airport Communications
• Proceed Direct
• Real Estate, General Aviation and the Inevitable Conflict
• Reporting Altitude Changes
• Resume Own Navigation
• Safety from the Ground Up
• Tips on TIPH
• Traffic Pattern Entry at Non-Towered Airports
• Using Call Signs
• Venturing Further Afield

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Density Altitude Flying

• Choosing the Best Cruise Altitude
• Climbing Into Thin Air
• Lake Tahoe
• Mountain Waves
• Part-Time Pilots, Full Time Mountains, Mountains Don't Need Practice to Bite You in the Knickers
• Selecting a Cruise Altitude

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FAA Regulations/Information - Logbook - Misc Forms - Misc Forms

• Aeromedical Advisory - The Big Question
• Allow Me to Demonstrate the Safety Features of the Air Transportation Division
• Anticipation - Registering Light Sport Aircraft
• Aviation Safety Programs . . . And What Makes Them Work!
• Behind the Scenes of a TRF
• Breaking the Code
• Change is in the Air: NOTAM Modernization Moves Ahead
• Circling Approaches and Their Conduct During Instrument Proficiency Checks
• Come Fly with Me
• Congress Tackles User Fee Proposal
• eLogbook Logistics: Considerations for Moving from Paper Log to Digital Login
• FAA Fact Sheet
• FAA 24-Hour Safety Hotline: 800-255-1111 to report maintenance improprieties, aircraft incidents, and Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) violations.
• The FAA Aviation Safety Programs - Do they really work?
• FAA Aviation Safety Data - Provides access to aviation safety database and airline activity data
• FAA Safety Information Link
• A Feather in Your Cap: Earning Your First Pair of WINGS
• Flying By the Rules - A Guide to Understanding Federal Aviation Regulations
• From the Logbook: Heard the Latest Negative FAA Saying? We’re Not Happy Until You’re Not Happy
• FITS - Times (and Training Requirements) Are a Changing
• From Shrimp Boats to Satellites
• Getting an FAA Ramp Check - Some Dos And Don’ts That Might Make a Surprise Meeting With The FAA a Little Easier
• How Low Can You Go?
• Is it a Certificate, a Rating, or a License?
• Is Your Airplane IFR Legal?
• Lights, Please!
• Light-Sport Aircraft/Sport Pilot Timelines are Approaching
• Logging Pilot in Command Time
• Misunderstanding Part 91.175
• Light Sport Aircraft Could Open Flight To Many
• NASA Form
• New Regulations for Border-Crossing Aircraft
• Next Gen for the Masses
• Oh No Not Another Acronym
• A Quick Guide to Exemptions
• General Aviation Safety Sourcebook
• SPANS – Safety Program Airmen Notification System
• Tales of an ASI: The World According to the ASI Flight Review Options
• Ten Days
• User Fees Issue Beginning to Boil
• User Fees: The Problems, the Positions, the Players
• User Fee Battle Starts Its Way Through Congress
• Weight and Balance Regulations
• We're on a Mission
• What is NASA/ASRS?
• What is the Federal Register?
• Why Does it Take So Long to Process a Rule?

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Flight School

• Flight School Security
• Tutima Academy of Aviation Safety Sean D. Tucker

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Fuel Management

• Engine Lean of Peak - Good or Bad?
• Fuel Low - “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt”
• Fuel-ish Questions Fuel-ish Answers
• How Much Fuel Is Enough?
• How to Keep Your Fuel Tanks from Going Hungry
• Measuring Fuel: How Do You Measure Up?
• Selecting Fuel Stops
• Switching Fuel Tanks
• Why Does My Airplane Smell Like It Has Been Drinking?

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Landing/Approaches

• 3 Secrets to Smooth Landings
• Activating Your Approach
• Airports with Over Water Approaches
• Airspeed on Approach
• Between a Rock and a Hard Spot
• Cleared for Visual Approach
• Dangerous Maneuver
• Descent Rates on Non-Precision Approaches
• Descent Tactics
• As Easy as A-B-C
• Emergency Off-field Landing Pattern
  
• Flap Management During Approach
• Flicker Vertigo—Know It to Avoid It
• Flying A Smooth ILS Approach
• Flying by the Numbers
• Following the Glideslope
• Getting Around on the Ground
• Gear Up
• Gliding Distance
• How Low Can I Go?
• ILS Approach: Controlling Airspeed
• ILS: Flying a Smooth Final Approach
• Judge Every Landing
• Know Your Taxi Limitations
• Lake Tahoe
• Landing Light on Instument Approach
• Landing - Power On or Off?
• Leaving Minimums on a Circling Approach
• Lowering Flaps for Landing
• Managing Airspeed on Final
• Measuring Crosswind
• Minimum Fuel Emergency
• Missed Approaches
• Misunderstanding Part 91.175
• On Speed, On Spot
• Opposite Direction Landing Pattern Entry
• Pilot-Controlled Lighting
• Playing 'Get Ahead'
• Pop-Up Clearances
• Power on Approach
• Practice Approaches
• Quick Descents Without Cool Shocking
• Slip on Final Approach?
• Smooth Takeoff
• Soft Field Landings
• Straight-In Approach
• Take Off from the Taxiway
• Too Much Crosswind?
• Using Autopilot on Approach
• Using Flaps on Crosswind Landings
• Using Rudder on Takeoff
• Wake Turbulence and Landing
• Wake Turbulence on Landing
• Wake Turbulence on Takeoff
• When the Runway Becomes an Ice Rink
• Wind Shear Landing
• Writing Down Clearances

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Mountain Flying

• High Altitude Departure
• High Terrain Departure
• Lake Tahoe
• Part-Time Pilots, Full Time Mountains, Mountains Don't Need Practice to Bite You in the Knickers
• Rocky Mountain High: The Zen of Mountain Flying
• Takeoff Performance on Sloped Runways
• Teaching the Teachers

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Night Flying

• Aircraft And Black Holes Don’t Mix
• Aircraft Interior Lights
• Avoiding Clouds at Night
• Be Aware of What Lurks in the Night
• Engine Start at Night
• Forced Landing at Night
• Glowing Gadgets and Gizmos
• Lights, Please!
• Night Emergency Landing
• Night Engine Failure: #1 Rule
• Night Go-Around
• Night Route Planning
• Nighttime Perils of Perception
• Night Vision Dangers
• Night Vision Goggles in Civilian Aircraft
• Terrain Avoidance - What Does It Take to Use NVGs?
• Traffic Pattern at Night
• Using Pilot “Nightlights” to Find Your Way in the Dark

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Pilot Training & Proficiency

IFR/VFR

• Building IFR Proficiency
• Cloud-based Exercise: Keeping Your Instrument Form in Shape
• Cockpit Organization for Single Pilot IFR
• Cruise Control: Avoiding VFR into IMC
• Escaping IFR Conditions
• Essentials of Maintaining IFR Currency
• Establishing IFR Minimums
• IFR Personal Minimums
• Maintaining IFR Proficiency
• Managing IFR "Reroutes"
• Pop-Up IFR Clearance
• Single-Pilot IFR Made Easier
• Tales of an ASI: Okay, So Our IFR Skills Are Seeping Away! Now What?
• Tales of an ASI: Positional Awareness is not just for IFR
• Ticket to Ride: Why IFR Training Makes Sense
• Using the System
• Using Your Instrument Rating
• VFR Checkpoints
• VFR Flight Plan
• VFR Personal Minimums

Go Arounds

• Botched Go-Arounds
• Common Go-Around Mistakes
• Giving Go-Arounds the Run-Around
• Go Around or Not?
• Go Around Procedure
• Night Go-Around
• Practice Go-Arounds

• 200 Knot Airplane Meets 90-Knot Mind
• Above and Beyond - Attitude Determines Your Altitude
• Aeronautical Proficiency Checkups
• All Available Information
• All I Wanted To Do Was Go Have Breakfast
• Ask for Directions
• Assume Nothing
• Attitude is Everything
• At War with the “Dirty Dozen”
• A Useful Airline Procedure
• Avoiding Turbulence
• Battling the Attraction of Distraction
• Becoming a Sport Pilot Examiner
• Beyond the $100 Hamburger
• Barriers to Effective Communication: Implications for the Cockpit
• Breaking Bad - What to Do When You See Someone Doing Something Wrong
• CFI/Flight Instructor—Is There A Difference?
• Circling Approaches and Their Conduct During Instrument Proficiency Checks
• Cobwebs and Flying Don't Mix
• Cockpit Courage and Preflight Pragmatism - Letting discretion be the better part of valor
• Communicating with FSS
• Contacting Flight Services in Flight
• Creating Emergencies by Practicing Emergencies
• Cruise Flight - Good Habits
• Currency: How Much Is Yours Worth?
• DC Airspace Training for Pilots
• Defensive Flying - Being Prepared for the Unexpected
• Direct-To or Not?
• The "Dirty Harry" Principle
• Does Anyone Remember What V-O-R Stands For?
• (Don't Get) Lost in Translation - Mastering the Language of Aviation
  
• Do You Know the Difference between Being Legal and Being Proficient?
• Eliminate External Pressure
• Emergency Checklist
• Emergency Descent
• Experimental Flight Training for Hire or Compensation
• Feeling Your Airspeed
• Flying with Children
• From the Logbook: Engine Out Emergency! . . . What Are You Going to Do? And I Mean "Right Now"!
• FAA/Industry Training Standards — An Improved General Aviation Training Paradigm
• Fighting Pilot Fatigue
• Fighting the Fear, Finding the Fun! - The Cockpit Companion’s Guide to GA Flying Enjoyment
• FITS and Learner Centered Grading FAA/Industry Training Standards
• FITS And Scenario Development
• FITS - Times (and Training Requirements) Are a Changing
• Five Minute Review-What Do You Remember(Quiz)
• Flicker Vertigo—Know It to Avoid It
• Flying Through Special Use Airspace
• Fly Like A Pro
• From Pilot To Patient . . . The Longest And Hardest Transition That We Will Ever Make
• From the Logbook: Ground or Flight Instruction . . . Which is the Most Important?
• Get Frequent IPCs
• Getting It Right in Maneuvering Flight
• Getting Lost
• Getting the Maximum from Personal Minimums
• A Guide on How to Treat Your Pilot
• Home Sweet Home...and Beyond - The Importance of Understanding Your Aviation Environment
• How Low Can I Go?
• The Human Side of Decision Making
• Importance of Simulator Training
• The Importance of the Human Element
• Jet Lag: The Hidden Costs of Travel
• Lake Tahoe
• Let's Be Clear - Improving Pilot Controller Communications
• Lights, Please!
• Light Sport Aircraft Could Open Flight To Many
• Maintaining Proficiency
• Me? Lose Control? You Gotta be…Uh Oh!
• Military Mindset
• Military Mindset 2
• Minimum Controllable Airspeed (MCA)
• Misunderstanding Part 91.175
• Modern Aircraft Electrical Systems - How well do you know your aircraft?
• N.I.G.H.T.
• No Going Back
• On Being the Best
• Partial Power
• Pilot Self-Assessment
• Please Fly Neighborly
• A Positive Flight Attitude
• Post Flight Debrief
• Practice Makes Proficient
• Practicing for Judgment Day
• Proficiency in Specific Airplanes
• Quick Night Flying Test
• Ready for the Soup?
• Recurrent Training - How Often?
• Returning to Flying After a Layoff
• A Review of Special Use Airspace
• Ride the Sky
• The Right Way Back to Right Side Up
• Risky Business - The What, How and Why of Risk Management
• RNAV Routes
• Rudder Coordination
• Safety And Recurrency Go Hand In Hand . . .Are You Up To It?
• Safety Clearance Through Class B, C, D Airspace
• Scenario-Based Practical Test Standards
• Setting Priorities: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate
• Sightseeing Flight
• Slip Left or Right?
• Smooth Taxi
• Staying Sharp on Emergency Procedures
• Steep Turns
• Sterile Cockpit
• From the Logbook: Stalls and Spins . . . a Mistake and a Maneuver
• Surprise! Combating the Startle Effect
• Tales of an ASI: The World According to the ASI Flight Review Options
• Taxi Discipline
• Teaching (and Learning) Good Attitudes
• Temporary Flight Restricted Areas: Where Are They and How Do I Get the Information?
• True Airspeed
• Using All Resources
• Value of Simulators
• A Weighty Matter
• What Do I Do Now? - How the Magic of Mentoring Can Propel Your Aviation Learning Odyssey
• What’s Up Doc?
• What Not to Say
• What to Do for a Flight Review
• When the Best Made Plans Go Awry
• Why Do Smart People Do Dumb Things? The Art of Managing Mistakes
• The “WINGS” Program And Its Importance To Aviation

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Preflight

• Advanced Preflight
• Are We There Yet? - Exploring External Pressures
• Assessing Risk in the Palm of Your Hand
• Avoid Midair Collisions Through Proper Flight Planning and Flight Safety
• Before the Preflight
• Beyond the $100 Hamburger
• Checklist Checkup
• Cobwebs and Flying Don't Mix
• Cockpit Courage and Preflight Pragmatism - Letting discretion be the better part of valor
• Finding ATC-Preferred Routes
• Fine-Tuning a Cross Country Flight Plan
• General Aviation Passenger SAFETY Briefing
• Going Beyond Preflight
• Inoperative Equipment
• Inspecting Your Propeller
• Is My Aircraft Right for Flight?
• Measuring Fuel: How Do You Measure Up?
• Military Operations Area (MOA)
• Passenger Briefing
• Planning an IFR Flight
• Preflight Checklist Avoids Distractions
• Preflighting Students
• Prefight Inspection
• "Pre" Preflight
• Preflight the Pilot
• Preflight Weather-What to expect from Flight Service
• Preaching the Preflight Gospel Preparing: Your Passengers for That Next Flight
• Preflighting Students
• "Pre" Preflight
• Pre-Takeoff Briefing
• Safety from the Ground Up
• Some Ramp Check
• Starting Your Engine
• A Tale of Two Diverts
• Turning Onto the Runway
• Using a Checklist Properly
• Warming Up Your Engine
  
• Weight and Balance—How Much is Too Much?
• Window for Departure on Long Flights
• A Weighty Matter
• You've Filed Your Flight Plan, Now What?

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Safety Devices/Equipment

• The Alpha (and Omega) - How a Small Angle Can Make a Huge Difference
• Alternator Failure
• Altitude - Altimeter vs. GPS
• Angle of Attack Indicator System
• AOA: More Than Just a Display
• Back-up Navaids
• Backup Navigation
• Ballistic Recovery System—A Down-to-Earth Subject for Aviation
• Beyond the Buttons: Mastering Our Marvelous Flying Machines
• Beyond the Checklist: Little Things that Can Make a Big Difference in Your Safety
• Big Benefit
• Can I (Legally) Use My iPad?
• Cospas One Year and Counting
• Cospas-Sarsat: Saving Lives for 20 Years
• Decoding GA Vision Systems
• Device Ends “Search” in Search and Rescue
• Did You Know Your Airplane Has a Phone For Calls To AFSS
• Distressed Over Emergency Beacons?
• Does Anyone Remember What V-O-R Stands For?
• 121.5 MHZ ELTs Prohibition Suspended by FAA
• EFB Installation
• ELT Update—Limit your 406 MHz Testing Time
• FAA Develops Tool to Predict Icing
• Factoring in the Human in Avionics Certification
• Flying Paperless Airplanes
• Get Ready for ADS-B
• GPS Sensitivity
• GPS Tactics & Holding
• GPS Waypoints
• GPS We’re Hooked
• Hand-held GPS for IFR Navigation?
• Have You Checked Your Data?
• How New Technology Takes Flight
• Integrating Space Traffic into the National Airspace System
• Keeping Up with Today’s Tech...without Breaking Any Rules!
• Lights, Please!
• Mandate Mythbusting - Separating Fact from Fiction for ADS-B 2020 Equipment Requirements
• Mandate Mythbusting - Separating Fact from Fiction for ADS-B 2020 Equipment Requirements Part 2
• Night Vision Goggles in Civilian Aircraft
• No Going Back
• Parachutes—Or How to Let Yourself Down Gently
• PLB—Is One In Your Future?
• Radio Communication Problems
• Technology in the Cockpit; The future is now, and you’d better catch up!
• Vacuum Failures Can Hurt
• You Can Take It With You: Mobile Apps for Risk Management
• What Would MacGyver Do?
• Why Should I Buy a 406 MHz ELT?

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Takeoffs

• Calculating Takeoff and Landing Distance
• Climb Out Tactics
• Engine Failure on Takeoff
• Takeoff Roll Tactics
• Taking Control of Your Takeoffs

Weather Related

• Airborne IFR Clearances
• Air Masses and Fronts
• ATC Ice Warning?
• ATC Terms For Describing Radar Weather Echoes To Pilots
• Avoiding Hydroplaning
• Avoiding Icing Conditions in Clouds
• Climbing For Smooth Air
• Climbing Into Hazy Conditions
• Clouds to Avoid
• Complete Weather Picture
• Contacting Flight Watch
• Convective Weather Forecast
• Crosswind Fears
• Detecting Ice at Night
• Don't Dither with Weather
• Escaping IMC
• Estimating Cloud Bases
• FAA Develops Tool to Predict Icing
• Fearsomely Foul - Dealing with Fog, Freezing Precip, and other Nasties from the North
• Filing a PIREP
• FSS Weather Briefing
• Getting Crossed-eyed with Crosswinds and Turbulence
• Giving a PIREP
• H2-OH - How Water and Heat Create Haze, Humidity, and Hurricanes
• Hailstones, Hitches, and Hauling Wind
• Hazardous Weather: Upper Level Trough
• High Clouds Base Reports
• Hot, High, and Heavy - Beware the Deadly Density Altitude Cocktail
• How PIREPs Help Weather Forecasters
• Ice Belongs in Drinks
• The Ice Man
• Iced Tea and Other Cold Drinks
• Icing -  Hope is not a Strategy
• IFR: Tactical Weather Planning
• Inadvertent IMC
• In Defense of Weather Code
• Isolated vs. Scattered Thunderstorms
• I've Got Weather! (...Now What Do I Do With It?)
• Judging Cloud Distance
• Me? Lose Control? You Gotta be…Uh Oh!
• METARs and Lightning
• Monitoring Weather
• NEXRAD Reflectivity Images
• New Helicopter Emergency Medical Services Weather Tool
• On Thin Ice: A Little Frost Won’t Hurt...Or Will It?
• Overcoming the Fire-Hose Effect
• Overcoming Vertigo
• Personal Minimums
• Preflight Weather-What to expect from Flight Service
• Radiation Fog
• Safer Flying in Icing Conditions
• Severe Thunderstorm Criteria
• Snow That Goes Bump in the Night
• Thermal Turbulence
• The Terrible T's: Turbulence, Thunderstorms, & Tornadoes
• Thunderstorms/Pilots/AFSS/ and ATC
• "Unknown" Precipitation
• Using TAFs
• Weather Decision-Making for GA Pilots
• "Weather" or Not To Go - Why Extreme Weather Doesn't Respect Experience
• Weather To Go
• What Can ATC Do For Me?
• What Is an AIRMET?
• The Whither and Whether of Flying in Weather
• Wind Over the Beach: The Dawn of Aviation Weather
• Wind Shear Forecast

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Safety Devices

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Winter Flying

• Are You Ready for Winter
• FAA Develops Tool to Predict Icing
• FIKI Wiki - What You Need To Know About Icing Conditions and Systems
• Fire and Ice - The Potential for Carburetor Fires Due to Over-Priming — Especially in Cold Weather
  
• Fly, Flee, or Fold - Winter Weather Options
• Flying Through Snow
• Frost — Pretty But Dangerous
• Ice Belongs in Drinks
• Keeping Your Cool in the Cold - Making the Most of Winter Flying Opportunities
• On Thin Ice: A Little Frost Won’t Hurt...Or Will It?
• Safer Flying in Icing Conditions
• Safety First: Watch Out for Winter
• Snow Producing Clouds
• Snow That Goes Bump in the Night
• Tips On Winter Flying
• When the Runway Becomes an Ice Rink
• Winter Cometh
• Winter Cometh—Keeping Warm On A Cold Winter Day
• Winter Flight Safety
• Winter Icing Conditions

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