GOLD STANDARD AVIATION TRAINING BLOG
“Get low or slow on one engine and the checkride is over” This is one of several admonitions (warnings) examiners brief multiengine applicants on prior to the flight portion of the Practical Test. Understanding the critical and likely irrecoverable nature...
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Ever wonder if it’s safe to fly when it’s snowing or when high humidity and freezing temperatures are forecasted? Well, the FAA used to consider snow and high humidity/cold temperatures to be a known-ice risk which grounded many aircraft. After...
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Engine failure in IMC is one reason many pilots choose to not fly in such conditions. Same with night flying, overwater, and in mountainous terrain. Watch this pilot react to a fuel exhaustion scenario while on an instrument approach in...
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