Aviation Weather Radar Contouring
Archives for » Page 60Aviation weather radar contouring reading helps you avoid dangerous storms There’s so much more to aviation weather radar than simply turning it on and looking for red blobs to avoid. As long as we keep reading about convective weather related accidents, it’s safe to say that pilots still do not completely […]
ADS-B Flight Tracking Opt-Out
Archives for » Page 60Flying under the radar while still on the radar Whenever I would hear the call sign “Dot Com”, I thought it belonged to a fleet of aircraft owned by a computer website company. That is, until I became a Dot Com myself. Turns out the “Dot Com” was just a sneaky […]
FAA Regulations: New AD addresses Limits to Certain Collins TCAS Use
Archives for » Page 60FAA regulations cause an AD that limits TCAS usage in certain aircraft FAA regulations have caused an Airworthiness Directive issuance requiring operating limitations on the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) used in Collins FDSA-6500 flight display systems. These systems are installed on certain Bombardier Challenger 604, Cessna Citation CJ3, and Beechcraft […]
Aviation Weather Warnings from ATC
Archives for » Page 60Aviation weather warnings – do we need all this info now? It was a dark and stormy night…. well, it was a dark and stormy afternoon. A steady chatter of pilots requested deviations and unscheduled climbs and descents due to less than ideal aviation weather. All of our radars and iPads […]
Flight Planning Apps: Part II
Archives for » Page 60Flight planning apps can help keep flights safe Continuing from my last post, here are numbers 7 through 12 of flight planning apps designed to make flight planning, and life, easier and safer for pilots. Windy is an app with stunning visualizations of wind conditions up to 240 hours in the […]
FAR and AIM Policies: Bird Strikes
Archives for » Page 60It’s a bird…flying right towards you – both the FARs and the AIM say your responsible to know it’s there already Wait. Did I read that right? According to both the FARs and the AIM, a pilot can be held responsible when his/her airplane strikes wildlife (mostly birds, but also deer, […]
Aviation Flight Planning to Unfamiliar Airports
Archives for » Page 60Aviation flight planning gets help with a new app The boss wanted to go to Telluride for a ski trip last winter. No problem, I thought. A little aviation flight planning and off we’d go. Well…. back up a little – the more I read about Telluride, the more I wondered […]
Flight Planning Apps – Using Resources: Part 1
Archives for » Page 60Flight planning is getting easier with online flight apps With all of the aviation apps available these days, it’s hard to know which ones make the most sense for the type of flying you do. There are apps for flight training, weather briefings, flight planing and even games to play when […]
GPS Navigation Training Features
Archives for » Page 60GPS navigation gets easier with training features GPS navigation has created a huge leap forward in situational awareness for pilots, and for the most part, the programing of a GPS is intuitive. But certain features take a little more thought to understand and may even require some training before using the […]
GPS Navigation Disruptions…During Flight
Archives for » Page 60GPS Navigation Jamming It’s easy to take GPS navigation for granted, especially since it is becoming such an integral part of modern day aviation. GPS disruption, however, is a growing problem that needs to be recognized and addressed by the aviation community before pilots become complacent and nonchalant about our navigation […]