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Did I Turn Too Early?
The autopilot is a great tool for pilots. It’s vital for a pilot to fully understand the autopilot in his/her airplane, what it’s there for, and how to work it. We at The Aviator’s Academy see lots of pilots struggling with what button to push or experience confusion when the autopilot is doing something unexpected…
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A Behind the Scenes Look at Ft. Worth Center
I recently got the privilege to go on a tour of the Ft. Worth Center facility. It was with our annual fly in group with Texas Top Aviation. The event was in Dallas, which made it very easy to get to the Ft. Worth Center facility by the DFW Airport. Pulling into the parking lot…
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Please Don’t Activate the Approach
I had someone tell me earlier this week that in order to best understand how to do a certain task, it helps to understand the logic behind how to do that task. I believe that is true in doing a lot of different tasks in the course of life, but especially true in learning how…
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Radial/DME Fixes
Lately, I’ve been hearing of a number of IFR clearances where the pilot receives a DME Fix off of a VOR Radial as part of the IFR routing, especially going back and forth between Austin and Dallas for low altitude airplanes. The initial panic sets in of, “Wait, what? You’re giving me a VOR radial? …
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The Many Advantages of a Garmin Flight Stream
Garmin has lots of cool stuff that help pilots. One of those is their Flight Stream. A Flight Stream is a bluetooth connection between the airplane’s GPS unit (it works with any Garmin GPS, from a 430 all the way up through a Garmin G5000) and any portable device, either Apple (Foreflight or Garmin Pilot)…